Conquest Quotes

"Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me."

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

"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser."

"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."

"Conquest is not in our principles; it is inconsistent with our government"

"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection."

"If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest."

"Self conquest is the greatest of victories."

"To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."

"An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity."

"He conquers who conquers himself"

"Just as Europeans had taken advantage of their early lead in gunpowder weapons to support a wave of world conquest, they ushered out the age of gunpowder with a second and more comprehensive program of colonial domination,"

"Into whose conquest no one in this world enters, by what track can you lead him, the Awakened, the Omniscient, the trackless?"

"Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,"

"Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world."

"We're all starting together, ... starting our conquest to become an elite team."

"The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation."

"And ever since the Conquest have been fools."

"The sense of conquest is in it. Not often is a collector able to obtain complete material in one assault. The plant may be at the moment sterile, or only in fruit or flower... but this lack has the advantage of stimulating the collector to go back in another season or year to complete the work."

"Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves."