A Quote by David Farragut

Conquer or be conquered.

David Farragut

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David Farragut
July 5, 1801 - August 14, 1870

This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.

Steven Pressfield

When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body -- it will all get conquered like this.

Ajahn Chah

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Plato

Conquered, we conquer.

Plautus

I'm trying to conquer swimming. I'm getting there. I've gotta conquer it. I had a fear of drowning and tunnels and flying. I started flying and got my pilot's license, so I conquered that. Now, I'm onto swimming and tunnels.

Tyler Perry

Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.

William Makepeace Thackeray

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself

Peter the Great

Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.

Pierre Corneille

He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.

Pierre Corneille

My journey continues, because I've, you know, conquered a lot. And I know how to conquer the rest.

Mary J. Blige

No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.

William Butler Yeats

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Plato

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 beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.

T. S. Eliot

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Napoleon Hill

Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.