A Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Napoleon Bonaparte
French - Statesman
August 15, 1769 - May 5, 1821

The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance.

Napoleon Bonaparte

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

Dwight L. Moody

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

Charles Lindbergh

No power but Congress can declare war; but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war? ... [T]hese remarks originate purely in a desire to maintain the powers of government as they are established by the Constitution between the different departments, and hope that, whether we have conquests or no conquests, war or no war, peace or no peace, we shall yet preserve, in its integrity and strength, the Constitution of the United States.

Daniel Webster

Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.

Alexander Pope

Never should an unfamiliar word be passed over without elucidation, for, with a little conscientious research, we may each day add to our conquests in the realm of philology and become more and more ready for graceful independent expression.

H. P. Lovecraft

I never view my ladies as conquests.

Saeed Jaffrey

If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests.

Alexander the Great

Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.

Jacques Hadamard

Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.

Louisa May Alcott

To do a little good is more than to accomplish great conquests.

Gautama Buddha

Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests.

Albert Claude

The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life.