Conquest Quotes · Page 9

Our missions are peaceful...not for conquest. When we do battle, it is only because we have no choice.

— James T Kirk

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

— Bruce Lee

Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.

— James A. Champy

That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.

— William Shakespeare

I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.

— Luis Bunuel

The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.

— Bill Vaughan

“We can borrow from the moneylenders in York.’ ‘We burned York two winters ago,’ Drogo pointed out.”

— Robert Lyndon

Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.

— Alexander Pope

An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That…

— Maria Montessori

“It falls to the lot of even the most glorious flags to be thrown in the mud. Glory, what men call glory,…

— Curzio Malaparte

We may be proud that England is the ancient country of Parliaments. With scarcely any intervening period, Parliaments have met constantly for…

— John Bright

Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with…

— Ralph Ellison

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

— Ludwig von Mises

Men have desired to gain knowledge and then power so that they can accomplish their goals of conquest, control, and manipulation.

— Anonymous

The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or…

— Virginia Woolf

The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.

— Joseph Campbell

There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws…

— Adrian Rogers

I pray for a world where we live in partnership rather than domination; where "man's conquest of nature" is recognized as suicidal…

— Riane Eisler

Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Since in every European country between 1870 and 1914 there was a war party demanding armaments, an individualist party demanding ruthless competition,…

— Jacques Barzun

Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that…

— Thomas Paine

Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my…

— James Wolfe

The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.

— Thomas Paine

The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.

— Northrop Frye

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

— Thomas Carlyle

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

— Charles de Secondat

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

— Thomas Paine

No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.

— Algernon Sidney

A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world.

— Vladimir Putin

To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.

— William Barrett

To get the best, we have to conquer the unwanted tests life brings and prove we deserve it.

— Terry Mark

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.

— Herman Melville

“Conquest was once over the outer territories, but the new conquest is for the inner-territories of our hearts.”

— Bryant McGill

Love is the great conqueror of lust. Being in love is far better than either common sensuality or cold self-centeredness.

— C S Lewis

They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“To some life is a complaint, to some it is a competition and to some it is a conquest.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Smile is an act of conquest! The person you smile at is immediately conquered, as if by an army of a thousand…

— Mehmet Murat ildan