Yanni Quotes

Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.

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.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

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

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

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

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.

Make no mistake, I always want to win, but I never fight with an opponent. My fight is within me it is the struggle to be the best I can be at whatever I do.

The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.

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

Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.

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

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

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.

I believe that the plight of life and all existence is to master one's self, you know, one day at a time.

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

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.

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.

Those who defeat others are strong, those who defeat themselves are mighty.

Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.

It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development.