Conqueror Quotes · Page 5

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

— Anonymous

Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.

— Herbert Kaufman

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

— Sigmund Freud

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are…

— Beilby Porteus

“The Christian is a born conqueror, the gates of hell shall not prevail against him.”

— William Gurnall

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

— Thomas Paine

Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]

— Juvenal

Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins…

— Martin Luther

Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush…

— Edgar Allan Poe

His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of…

— Idi Amin

Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the…

— Carl von Clausewitz

I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its…

— Bertrand Russell

But it's not the name I'd give to a conqueror of worlds... I would've gone with Thundro or Ragnor. I might just…

— Richelle Mead

I've always had to bind up and wrestle fear, because acting is really about faith. And faith and fear can't really stay…

— Derek Luke

Sometimes when we read the words of those who have been more than conquerors, we feel almost despondent. I feel that I…

— Amy Carmichael

“It is for your own good to love a dare-devil rather than a holy coward. A dare-devil is a unique devil, battling…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

People of Baghdad, remember for 26 generations you have suffered under strange tyrants who have ever endeavoured to set one Arab house…

— Frederick Stanley Maude

The Spanish voyager, as his caravel ploughed the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and dream that beyond the…

— Francis Parkman

As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and…

— Louise J. Kaplan

The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who overcome their…

— Laozi

Speakers' nerves affect them in various ways. Some tremble, some become frenzied. I lose all confidence, and suffer from a leaden oppression…

— Robertson Davies

When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We are divided.…

— Brian Day

The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.

— Carl von Clausewitz

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

— Edmund Waller

He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors. [Lat., Victor victorum cluet.]

— Plautus

The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.

— Johnnetta B. Cole

It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.

— Julius Caesar

You kill three people, they call you a murderer. You kill a million people, they call you a conqueror. Go figure.

— John Lithgow

Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.

— Frederick Stanley Maude

The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.

— John Milton

Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?

— Henry Kirke White

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

— William Shakespeare

Though thousand times a thousand in battle one may conquer, yet should one conquer just oneself, one is the greatest conqueror.

— Gautama Buddha

“Love the pride of the conquered nations, and leave them to honour their father and their mother.”

— Karen Blixen

Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

— Ernst Zundel

Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.

— Lin Yutang

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

— Saint Augustine

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods,…

— Dag Hammarskjold