Conquest Quotes

Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.

— John Milton

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

— George Eliot

Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest

— Anonymous

Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.

— Louisa May Alcott

Our future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa.

— Benito Mussolini

“Conquests will come and go but Delambre 's work will endure.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Take risks and conquer your fear.

— Anonymous

Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance.

— Martin E. Marty

Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

— Steven Pinker

If you believe in yourself you can conquer all your battles in this world, be brave!

— Sfiso MaAphula Ngema

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

— Dwight L. Moody

My life was too short to acheive the conquest of the whole world…

— Genghis Khan

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

— Gautama Buddha

There are days when I know I can conquer the world, but there are also days when all I do is run…

— Anonymous

The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.

— Norman Cousins

Perhaps that dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises. A day will come when unvanquished Man…

— Rabindranath Tagore

The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.

— Samuel Johnson

In 1736, Bakhchisaray had been burned to the ground by the Russians, and when Catherine II's army completed the conquest of the…

— Tim Cope

“There's no such thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeated and humiliated people. Another place to guard…

— Jeanette Winterson

I used to play Another One Bites The Dust after every conquest. But I'm old now so I'm changing it to Another…

— Rudy Espinoza

Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside…

— Paulo Freire

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series…

— Ezra Stiles

All great tasks test our motivation. It's easy to court ideas over beers and change the world with napkin sketches, but like…

— Scott Berkun

Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and…

— H. G. Wells

Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the…

— Herbert Spencer

There cannot always be fresh fields of conquest by the knife; there must be portions of the human frame that will ever…

— John Eric Erichsen

The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew…

— John Boyle O'Reilly

All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash.…

— Mark Twain

In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and…

— Bryan Ward-Perkins

I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders…

— Benjamin Franklin

Institutionalized desublimation thus appears to be an aspect of the "conquest of transcendence" achieved by the one-dimensional society. Just as this society…

— Herbert Marcuse

It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the…

— Waldemar Kaempffert

The Conquest is not a film about Nicolas Sarkozy - it's a film about political conquest. It's a Shakespearean expression, where we…

— Xavier Durringer

For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced…

— Robert Hughes

Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great…

— Omar Samra

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

— Teresa of Avila

There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests,…

— Ben Okri

Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinsters. "One…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin