Plato Quotes
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.Plato
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I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.
Bayard Rustin -
If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.
Rafael Nadal -
When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I am still hungry; I still hate defeats. There is no substitute for victories.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Edmund Hillary -
In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.
Taylor Swift
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There was no way to lock down, or tighten up, or Fail-Safe into Security Theater a race that covers 26.2 miles, a race that travels from town to town, a race that travels past people's houses. There was no way to garrison the Boston Marathon. Now there will be.
Charlie Pierce -
In the back of my mind was the nagging discussion: where do we take the portfolio? You can get rid of TV, fine, but then you are in lighting and in health, and those don't have a lot to do with each other.
Frans van Houten -
I was a boy soprano. I had a natural kind of voice and then trained it after my voice changed.
Len Cariou -
Scientific discovery requires sustained funding for decades, and politicians can destroy it in a single budget cycle.
Bill Foster -
I came to win, to fight, to conquer, to thrive I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise To fly.
Nicki Minaj -
Yes I’m a beast and I feast when I conquer!
Nicki Minaj
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Once you've been first, it cannot be done again. Not by you, not by anyone else.
Buzz Aldrin -
Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.
Oscar Wilde -
If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.
Arthur Ashe -
It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
Bill Vaughan -
Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.
Abraham Lincoln -
What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
Hippocrates
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He has a song in his heart for me. I hope it is not "Shut Uppa You Face, Whatsa Matta You.
Louise Rennison -
Crying is really bad for your vocal cords.
Adele -
For the success, Although particular, shall give a scantling Of good or bad unto the general; And in such indexes, although small pricks To their subsequent volumes, there is seen The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come at large.
William Shakespeare -
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Plato