Top 100 Quotes About Conquering
#1. Congratulations for conquering PTSD. And now you're fucked.
David Finkel
#2. God is our fortress, in whose conquering name
Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks.
William Shakespeare
#3. Conquering the world and changing it, I do not think it can succeed.
Laozi
#4. Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.
Chogyam Trungpa
#5. The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns! For sleeping man, 'twas hard to choose between such winsome days and such seducing nights.
Herman Melville
#6. The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering that bear and letting him go.
Jennifer Lopez
#7. We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high as or higher than we are.
Ezra Taft Benson
#8. Peak-to-peek, conquering one peak and then peeking over the top to find another one to climb.
Les Brown
#9. The unfulfilling job is not the failure; not pursuing your dreams is the real failure. Developing a vision requires conquering your fears and finding motivation from within.
Peter Murphy
#10. You may conquer an army with superior tactics and men, but you can conquer a nation only by conquering the hearts of the people.
Jack Weatherford
#11. There's no such conquering weapon as the necessity of conquering.
George Herbert
#12. In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#13. The reverent way his mouth had worshipped mine was replaced with a desperate conquering.
Katie Ashley
#15. There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their own happiness. They are: the miracle, the mystery and authority.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#16. I can write, because writing - unlike choreography, architecture, or conquering kingdoms - is a thing you can do when you're lonely and poor, and have no infrastructure, i.e., a ballet troupe or some cannons.
Caitlin Moran
#17. The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well.
Pierre De Coubertin
#18. All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.
H.L. Mencken
#19. Luckily, killing is prohibited these days, unless you do it en masse. They call it conquering." "So
Cameron Jace
#20. Whene'er, by Jove's decree, our conquering powers Shall humble to the dust her lofty towers.
Homer
#21. Conquering evil, not the opponent is the essence of swordsmanship.
Yagyu Munenori
#22. However, he was happy. He felt he was conquering nature. He laughed aloud. He felt he was stronger than the elements. In this type of weather animals hid in their holes and did not come out. He was out, fighting the elements. He was a man, master of the world.
Jack London
#23. Bravery is the acknowledgment and the conquering of fear.
Derek Landy
#24. An idea fell like a seed and over the next weeks it went on growing like a fig vine lush and conquering twining round her old beliefs and covering them in new growth until they were as invisible as a tiger in a thicket and just as deadly.
Laini Taylor
#25. A resolute leader who collects ten thousand adventurers about him can do as he pleases. Were the whole world a single Imperium, it would thereby become merely the maximum conceivable field for the exploits of such conquering heroes.
Oswald Spengler
#26. Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.
Wernher Von Braun
#27. So many things have now become interesting to me because at first I had to do them whether I liked them or not, and thus one is kicked into conquering new countries where one is afterwards at home.
C.S. Lewis
#28. I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.
Ja Rule
#30. For never was a truer story of love conquering woe than this of Molly Juliet and her Romeo.
Tillie Cole
#31. When I was on Raw, I was like Julius Caesar, an all-powerful conquering hero who became so powerful that everyone around him had to conspire against him.
Wade Barrett
#32. Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.
Maria Montessori
#33. For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn't about conquering something, it's being happy with who you are.
Britney Spears
#34. I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.
Alejo Carpentier
#35. I thought there would be more time in my trailer to write during 'Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.,' but I seem to be always flying in a harness and conquering supervillains instead.
Clark Gregg
#36. Conquering fear didn't mean not being afraid, it meant being afraid of something and doing it anyway. It meant saying no to fear-no you can't rule me, no you can't hold me back, no you can't keep me from the things I want the most.
Laura Kaye
#38. To live without forcing to overcome without conquering
Lao-Tzu
#39. I tend to agree that celibacy for a time is worth considering, for sex is dirty if all it means is winning a man, conquering a woman, beating someone out of something, abusing each other's dignity in order to prove that I am a man, I am a woman.
Toni Cade Bambara
#40. Our society distinguishes itself by conquering the centrifugal social forces with Technology rather than Terror, on the dual basis of an overwhelming efficiency and an increasing standard of living.
Herbert Marcuse
#41. drive to win and the desire to make a profit are given by God to provide the incentive required for conquering exceptional challenges.
Ed Silvoso
#42. I feel again the hunger to let go of my striving and find the ability to become content and still, intentionally "superfluous," as writer Helen M. Luke puts it. I want a refuge from my old conquering self.
Sue Monk Kidd
#43. the simplicity that comes from conquering complexities, not ignoring them.
Walter Isaacson
#44. There is no honest woman with an uncorrupted heart whom a man is not sure of conquering by dint of gratitude. It is one of the surest and shortest means.
Giacomo Casanova
#45. I tell you that victory consists in conquering self. That is the greatest enemy.
Paul Of The Cross
#46. Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.
Patricia A. McKillip
#47. Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death. - DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Eric Metaxas
#48. I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.
Henry David Thoreau
#49. No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.
Mahatma Gandhi
#50. The pleasure and joy of man lies in treading down the rebel and conquering the enemy, in tearing him up by the root, in taking from him all that he has.
Genghis Khan
#51. Currently we don't have plans on conquering the world.
Sergey Brin
#53. It was the immutable tango between the Dumper and the Dumpee: the coming and the seeing and the conquering and the returning home.
John Green
#54. She said people are too obsessed with conquering their fear when they should just learn to accept it and do stuff that scares them anyway.
Leisa Rayven
#55. And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.
Jerry Falwell
#56. No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
Bashar Al-Assad
#57. For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.
Hippolyte Taine
#58. The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.
Edith Hamilton
#59. For there are fashions in myth, and the world-conquering West of the nineteenth century needed a philosophy of life in which realpolitik - victory for the tough people who face the bleak facts - was the guiding principle. Thus the bleaker the facts you face, the tougher you seem to be.
Alan W. Watts
#61. Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered and captured and carried off by the past.
Milan Kundera
#62. The real protagonist of scientifiction was science itself, conquering the dark forces of irrationality and ignorance.
Steve Silberman
#63. The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#64. He had to lie to himself about life, pretend it was less hard than it really was, and then press forward by one slippery means or another, all the while deluding himself into believing that he was conquering the world.
Dean Koontz
#65. The hostile attitude of conquering nature ignores the basic interdependence of all things and events
that the world beyond the skin is actually an extension of our own bodies
and will end in destroying the very environment from which we emerge and upon which our whole life depends.
Alan Watts
#66. A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#67. The world is not the kingdom. "In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world" (John 16:33b NIV 1984). Live with Me, the conquering Christ, and the joy and peace of victory shall also be yours.
Lacie Stevens
#68. The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
Pierre De Coubertin
#69. With each step I take I am:
Growing stronger, more spiritual and wiser. Climbing and conquering the imaginary mountains in my mind. Releasing the destroying hurt in my heart. Defeating the fearful giants in my soul. All for the purpose of making a new and improved me.
Timothy Pina
#70. Strength comes from ignoring your critics.
Power comes from mastering your fears.
Fortitude comes from wrestling your opponents.
Superiority comes from overcoming your losses.
Greatness comes from conquering your weaknesses.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#71. The sea is as desolate and barren as it is fertile and life-giving. It is cold and dismal, yet bold and spirited. Sometimes imperious and conquering, other times gentle and meek. But it is always mysterious. Those mysteries hold many secrets. One has but to listen and watch to discover them
Jocelyn Murray
#72. Of course it's dangerous. But it's a lot more dangerous for all of us if we don't do it. Even in a conquering army there are casualties. Safety is not the issue when we look at the Great Commission. The purpose of the church cannot be to survive, or even to thrive, but to serve.
Brother Andrew
#73. Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles.
Emma Lazarus
#74. One finds life through conquering the fear of death within one's mind. Empty the mind of all forms of attachment, make a go-for-broke charge and conquer the opponent with one decisive slash.
Takenaka Shigekata
#76. Who dare tries is a success, and shall master the art of conquering dreams.
T.F. Hodge
#78. You can look at the situation and feel victimized. Or you can look at it and be excited about conquering the challenges and opportunities it presents.
Jack Welch
#79. Parker Brothers tried to introduce a German version of Risk, the board game in which players try to dominate a map of the world, the German government tried to censor it. (Eventually the rules were rewritten so that players were "liberating" rather than conquering their opponents' territories.)
Steven Pinker
#80. Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized.
Swami Vivekananda
#81. When you start in life, if you find you are wrongly placed, don't hesitate to change, but don't change because troubles come up and difficulties arise. You must meet and overcome and conquer them. And in meeting and overcoming and conquering them, you will make yourself stronger for the future.
Charles M. Schwab
#82. It's a phenomenal experience jumping from the devious mind of a sorceress bent on conquering the world to the compassionate musing of a queen capable of healing life with a touch - all in a flicker of thought. That's why I love writing.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#83. Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
George William Curtis
#84. The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to your mythology, this is what he was BORN to do.
Daniel Quinn
#85. She said that instead of conquering Everest, I could conquer the conqueror of Everest and while he had to go climb the mountain, I could stay home in lazy comfort listening to the radio and eating chocolates. She was upset, I suppose, but you can't imbibe someone's success by fucking them.
Joanna Russ
#86. Forget politics. The real story is the advancements being made in medicine. We're on the verge of conquering cancer and Alzheimer's and numerous other diseases. The DNA revolution has just begun. Scientific advancement usually trumps politics.
Douglas Brinkley
#87. I hold it to be the most monstrous proposition ever uttered within the Senate that conquering a country like Mexico, the President can constitute himself a despotic ruler without the slightest limitation on his power. If all this be true, war is indeed dangerous!
John C. Calhoun
#88. A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.
Ayn Rand
#89. Conquering the world was a simple thing; commanding one's spirit was the real challenge.
Darren Shan
#90. Its Seventh Commandment, italicized by the authors, stated: Battles are beyond everything else struggles of morale. Defeat is inevitable as soon as the hope of conquering ceases to exist. Success comes not to him who has suffered the least but to him whose will is firmest and morale strongest.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#91. Whenever the clergy succeeded in conquering political power in any country, the result has been disastrous to the interests of religion and inimical to the progress of humanity.
James Connolly
#93. Again the pressure pushes me in the chair, shuts my eyes. I notice the dark red tongues of the flame outside the windows. I'm trying to memorize, fix all the feelings, the peculiarities of this descending, to tell those, who will be conquering space after me.
Valentina Tereshkova
#94. For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.
Tom McMillan
#95. Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic Table, which just during those weeks we were learning to unravel, was poetry ...
Primo Levi
#96. The conquering army had perpetrated untold atrocities. The Japanese had occupied my home and twice forced us to leave the land I loved.
Katherine Paterson
#97. Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.
Abraham Lincoln
#98. Sweet Phosphor, bring the dayWhose conquering rayMay chase these fogs;Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!Light will repayThe wrongs of night;Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!
Francis Quarles
#99. Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.
Hermann Hesse
#100. Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary line and adding to one's liberty.
Henri Frederic Amiel
