Thomas a Kempis Quotes

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

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

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

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.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

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.

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

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

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

Happie is hee that chastens himselfe.

Self-Conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.

The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person.

Having failed to conquer myself, my best hope now is to arrange an alliance with myself.

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

The most valuable form of discipline is the one that you impose upon yourself.

The most important battle is one to conquer yourself.

Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.