Quotes about Conquest
Real self-conquest is the conquest of ourselves not by ourselves but by the Holy Spirit. Self-conquest is really self-surrender.
— Thomas Merton
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
— Thomas Paine
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
— George Eliot
We will accept nothing less than full Victory!
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Trust unites, fear divides, mercy heals, and love conquers.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
How beautiful is victory, but how dear!
— Anonymous
To overcome in battle, and subdue nations, and bring home spoils with infinite man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch 0f human glory.
— John Milton
The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
— CS Lewis
Arguing with my wife is like this: "I came! I saw! I concurred!"
— Anonymous
It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory
— Victor Hugo
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.
— Milan Kundera