Top 422 Conquest Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
Explore popular Conquest quotes.
Last updated on November 12, 2024.
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.
The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
Sometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps.
The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.
Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.
And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind,
The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind.
Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.
The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.
What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?
Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.
Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them.
The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.
In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention.
The conquest of the outskirts of the atmosphere, and eventually space, is a revolutionary event, comparable only to the transition of the aquatic animals to the land in geologic times.
Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery.
Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast.
What shall I do to shun the snares of death?
It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.
To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.
For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.
What girl could fail to make a conquest who collapsed at a man's feet in the moonlight?
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason.
Divine the Powers that on this trio wait.
Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate.
Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.
The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.
A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him.
When Elizabeth II was crowned - the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest - the world lit up in her favour.
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.
It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.
The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens.
Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.
Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.
The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths.
Conquer land like Napoleon, military bomb fest
We want sanitary food, planetary conquest
I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery.
Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.
Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.
The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war
When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.
For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.
