Mother Teresa Quotes

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

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

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

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

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.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.

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

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

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

The most important battle is one to conquer yourself.

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.

He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.