Conquest Quotes · Page 3

Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.

— Mason Cooley

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

— Thomas Jefferson

The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

— Michel de Montaigne

If love is the quest, then marriage is the conquest

— Anonymous

“The horizon is not for conquest but for curiosity.”

— Lawrence Nault

Triumph cannot help being cruel.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

All forms of fear produce fatigue.

— Bertrand Russell

The goal of evolution is self - conquest

— Elbert Hubbard

It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.

— Walter Cronkite

Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Anonymous

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

— Gautama Buddha

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

— Genghis Khan

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

— Elie Wiesel

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

— Norman Cousins

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

— Sfiso MaAphula Ngema

In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country…

— Karl Marx

We must not forget that what I mean by the conquest of the world by spiritual thought is the sending out of…

— Swami Vivekananda

You see, I'm not some shiny bauble to be strung onto a necklace and displayed for all the world to see. I'm…

— Courtney Milan

Perhaps the new dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises; and then, unvanquished Man will retrace…

— Rabindranath Tagore

In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

If the opponent is weak, victory can make you arrogant; but conquering over a powerful opponent not only shows your ability, but…

— Anonymous

The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the…

— John F. Kennedy

“Every time there was conquest, it brought trade, new ideas, and inventions. They made civilization evolve to new heights. Humans soar on…

— Adam Burch

This [the opening of the Vatican City radio station built by Marconi earlier in 1931] was a new demonstration of the harmony…

— Pope Pius XI

I want viewers want to talk about The Conquest. I want the dialogue to start after the movie. The cinema is there…

— Xavier Durringer

I read "The Conquest of New Spain" by Bernal Diz Del Castillo, which I recommend to a lot of people. He was…

— Laila Lalami

Much of the world today, including the United States, is still living in the social, cultural, and political aftermath of Britain's cultural…

— Thomas Sowell

The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of…

— Edward Gibbon

The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his…

— Robert Briffault

We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part…

— Rachel Carson

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and…

— Alan Watts

And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native…

— Tim Wise

At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire…

— Samuel Johnson

I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing…

— Claude Bernard

“Give a man love and he will trade his crown for a kiss. Break a man's heart and he will raise empires…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the investigator who endures the painful and persevering analytical work…

— Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples…

— Barbara Tuchman

This killing of Israel athletes is an act of war. And if there's one place that war doesn't belong, it's here. 1200…

— Bill Bowerman

No power but Congress can declare war; but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own…

— Daniel Webster