Unconquerable Quotes

• As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

  Winston Churchill

  Winning, Long, Victory

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• All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.

  John Milton

  Courage, Revenge, Hate

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 105 (1667)

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• Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Fate, Winning

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• Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails.

  Dave Pelzer

  Meaningful, Heart, Important

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• There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor, the conquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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• It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

  Seneca the Younger

  Positivity, Mind, Stoicism

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• Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.

  Chris Bradford

  Teamwork, Strong, Team Building

  Chris Bradford (2010). “The Way of the Dragon (Young Samurai, Book 3): The Way of the Dragon”, p.194, Penguin UK

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• It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Fate, Punishment

  "Invictus" l. 13 (1888)

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• Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,-air, earth, and skies! There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Men, Air

  "To Toussaint L'Ouverture" l. 8 (1807)

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• There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Failure, Men, Unconquerable Will

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

  Theodore Newton Vail

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

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• Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up. There are others, though they are not many, who will for some reason always be unconquerable. You meet them in time of war and also in time of peace. They have an indomitable spirit and nothing, neither pain nor torture nor threat of death, will cause them to give up.

  Roald Dahl

  Giving Up, Pain, War

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Complete Short Stories: Volume Two”, p.360, Penguin UK

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• Out of the night that covers me,
  Black is the pit from pole to pole,
  I thank whatever gods may be
  For my unconquerable soul.
  In the fell clutch of circumstance
  I have not winced nor cried aloud.
  Under the bludgeonings of chance
  My head is bloody, but unbowed.
  Beyond this place of wrath and tears
  Looms but the Horror of the shade,
  And yet the menace of the years
  Finds and shall find me unafraid.
  It matters not how strait the gate,
  How charged with punishments the scroll,
  I am the master of my fate:
  I am the captain of my soul.

  William Ernest Henley

  Strength, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

  "Invictus" l. 13 (1888)

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• It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Soul, Victory

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• I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

  William Ernest Henley

  Fear, Soul, Atheism

  'Invictus. In Memoriam R.T.H.B.' (1888)

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• Being unconquerable lies with yourself; being conquerable lies with your enemy.

  Sun Tzu

  Lying, Army, Enemy

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• The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.

  Winston Churchill

  Fate, Victory, Unconquerable Will

  Message to people of Europe launching V for Victory propaganda campaign, 20 July 1941

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• It is my PRIDE, my damned, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19 - 20th of my Composition is Pride. I must either live a Slave, a Servant; to have no Will of my own, no Sentiments of my own which I may freely declare as such; --or DIE --perplexing alternative!

  Thomas Chatterton

  Pride, Alternatives, Unconquerable Will

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• The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Expression, Soul, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.349, Grove Press

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• beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade

  William Ernest Henley

  Wrath, Tears, Unconquerable Will

  William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”

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• The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Vanity, Giants, Vulnerable

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book”, p.34, 谷月社

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• We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.

  Roger Bannister

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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• After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. ... The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.

  George William Russell

  Spiritual, World, Unconquerable Will

  "The Economics of Ireland and the Policy of the British Government". Book by George William Russell, 1921.

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• This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.

  Charles Lamb

  Night, Other Worlds, Smoking

  Letter to Thomas Manning, 26 December 1815, in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb' vol. 3 (1978) p. 207

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• To live one's love and hatred, to live that which one is means defeat, resignation, and death. The crimes of society, the hell that man has made or man become unconquerable cosmic forces.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Mean, Men, Hatred

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.61, Beacon Press

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