Johann Arndt Quotes

Though thousand times a thousand in battle one may conquer, yet should one conquer just oneself, one is the greatest conqueror.

I practice martial arts not to win over other people but to win over my own heart.

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.

because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self.

No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

Your task is to conquer yourselves, not ships, lands and castles. This battle is the one in which you especially are to 'come off conqueror.' It is fought every day. In fact, it is a continuing process which commenced a long, long time ago.

It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.

The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come to the end of it.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

You struggle with your demons and you conquer them.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

I do not ask for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.