Quotation Explorer - 'Conquest'

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquest... - Charles A. Lindbergh
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. - William Shakespeare
The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week. - Bert Hölldobler, Edward Wilson
Fiery colors begin their yearly conquest of the hills, propelled by the autumn winds. Fall is the artist.
Conquest is made from the ashes of one's enemies. - Starscream
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. - Joseph P. Thompson
If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them - Karl Marx
The greatest conquest is the courage to be yourself. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment. - Anne Besant
The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretense but an idea. - Joseph Conrad
God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness. - Nikolai A. Berdyaev
A man’s conquest depends on his knowledge of Jesus Christ. - Sunday Adelaja
Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance. What will your contribution be? How will history remember you? - William Hundert - The Emperors Club
The most important ingredient in the soup of life that makes its worthy to relish is the belief that success, greatness, happiness, joy, conquest, victory, triumph, peace and love are indeed achievable. - Sesan Kareem
The greatest conquest is self –control. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.
My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest. - Siegfried Sassoon
To some life is a complaint, to some it is a competition and to some it is a conquest. - Amit Kalantri
I milked my typical persona as a gritty, intellectual sex-positive feminist that men loved to conquer, toss aside, and shove into their conquest collection in the dusty backs of their closets. - Maggie Young
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a leader. - Plato
The greatest victory is the conquest soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita
A country road, a gravel road, is a sign of civilization, sure, but it’s just a farm, an easy conquest. Iron means a stronghold, people who can defend what’s theirs. - Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad
Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot. - Tim Wise
The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing. - Joseph Conrad
Liberty isn't bestowed; it's achieved. It is not a gift; it's a conquest. It does not abide; it must be preserved. - Albert E. Bowen
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