Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of… — Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe - without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a… — Peter Forsyth Copy Share Image
Another proof of the conquest of a soul for Christ will be found in a real change of life. If the man… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The press, watchful with more than the hundred eyes of Argus, strong with more than the hundred arms of Briareus, not only… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies… — Bert Holldobler Copy Share Image
In the academic setting, you take (typically) lonely, interesting middle-aged men and beautiful, intelligent young women, and everybody's motivations for display and… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
“In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
Running is the classical road to self-consciousn ess, self-awareness and self-reliance. Independence is the outstanding characteristic of a runner. He learns the… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
We do this in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
“A self-evident and prefabricated symbolism attaches itself to this slow climb to the zenith, and we are not so foolishly ironic, or… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“ Euclid 's Elements has been for nearly twenty-two centuries the encouragement and guide of that scientific thought which is one thing… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests,… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
After the survivor of the Spanish conquest has told his life's story he is convicted by the Inquisition: He posted no brief… — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
