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It is the explicit record of a man's physical self-conquest, literally step by step, which is in turn the measure of his inner toughening, adjustment and growth.

From Time Magazine Archive

You correctly quoted the principle of Buddha's philosophy of life as self-conquest.

From Time Magazine Archive

And the direct experience of God is still available to any man capable of enough suffering, renunciation and self-conquest.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just on this account, because it is a denial or suppression of the will to live, such a renunciation is a hard and painful self-conquest; but of this later.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur

Dickie thinking over his restless night, his fierce efforts at self-conquest, those long hours in the saddle designed for the reduction of a perfervid imagination, wrote himself down an ass indeed.

From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas