Conquered Quotes
386 Conquered quotes by 315 unique authors
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This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but…
— Nikola Tesla
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. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we…
— Patrick Henry
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I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes…
— Abraham Lincoln
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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He that stands still and suffers his enemies to double blows upon him without resistance, will undoubtedly be conquered in the issue.
— John Owen
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Mind is dual, it always divides things into polar opposites: the conqueror and the conquered, the observer and the observed, the object and the subject,…
— Rajneesh
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Be passive. In your passivity, God comes. Be feminine. In your femininity, God comes. Have you not watched it? Buddha looks very feminine, Krishna looks…
— Rajneesh
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I have learnt that all our theories are not Truth itself, but resting places or stages on the way to the conquest of Truth, and…
— Justus von Liebig
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Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength.
— Sun Tzu
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Sometimes it has been of great moment while the fight is going on, to disseminate words that pronounce the enemies' captain to be dead, or…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
— Thomas Hobbes
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This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.
— Muhammad Ali
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Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.
— Paul Tillich
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No matter what sort of adversity or challenge you might face, you can always believe that, with hope, it can be conquered and, in the…
— Brooke Ellison
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The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The United States Marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base which is as…
— Chester W. Nimitz
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For me, chess is not a profession, it is a way of life, a passion. People may feel that I have conquered the peak and…
— Viswanathan Anand
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Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails…
— John Burroughs
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Goods and possessions are no gain in his eyes. He stays far from wealth and honor. Long life is no ground for joy, nor early…
— Zhuangzi
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The Bible says that as long as we are here on earth, we are strangers in a foreign land. There are enemies to be conquered…
— Billy Graham
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A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . . each of these…
— Joseph Campbell
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Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt.…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways.…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their…
— Benjamin Franklin
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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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