Guy Finley Quotes

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.

True victory is self-victory; let that day arrive quickly!

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

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

The conquering of self is truly greater than were one to conquer many worlds.

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

Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.

True victory is victory over oneself.

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.

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.

Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

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.

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

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

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

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.

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

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

For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.

The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.

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