Unconquerable Quotes - Page 3

• When you are following dharma, you will be happy, at peace, still inside. There will be a sense of purpose to your life. Difficulties will not seem unconquerable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Purpose, Dharma

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• Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Time, Doe, May

  Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”

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• When we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear. But we have also an unconquerable faith in our own stars, and in the impossibility of anything venturing to go against us. As we grow old we slowly come to believe that everything will turn out badly for us, and that failure is in the nature of things, but then we do not much mind what happens to us one way or the other. In this way a balance is obtained.

  Isak Dinesen

  Stars, Believe, Ideas

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• The unconquerable pang of despised love.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Despised

  William Wordsworth (1814). “The Excursion,: Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem”, p.291

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• Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.

  Morgan Freeman

  Hero, Men, Honor

  "Actors who played Nelson Mandela react to news of his death". www.foxnews.com. December 6, 2013.

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• I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and... deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself when I am in their company.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Intelligent, Men, Blood

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• A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun.

  Llewelyn Powys

  Wise, Nature, Men

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• You should always say your prayers with tireless diligence, as the Apostle directs, saying: 'Continue in prayer and watch in the same' (Col. 4:2). For humble patience, tirelessness and persistence in prayer conquer the unconquerable God and incline Him to mercy.

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Prayer, Humble

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• If you have that unconquerable urge to write, nothing will stop you from writing.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Writing, Ifs, Urges

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• History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

  Henry Ford

  War, Mean, Men

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