Quotes About Conquest

Success is a great deodorant.

Great victory requires great risk. -Hera

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

The American mind in particular has been trained to equate success with victory, to equate doing well with beating someone.

In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Everything bows to success, even grammar.

Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.

I've dominated a majority of my opponents. Very few people I only win against. Most of the time it's pretty one-sided. That's success to me.

At the end of pain is SUCCESS!

La dicha es como esos palacios de las islas encantadas, cuyas puertas guardan formidables dragones; preciso es combatir para conquistar

Albert seized it and put it victoriously into his buttonhole

Le bonheur est comme ces palais des îles enchantées dont les dragons gardent les portes. Il faut combattre pour le conquérir

fait pour être si facilement heureux! Le bonheur est comme ces palais des îles enchantées dont les dragons gardent les portes. Il faut combattre pour le conquérir, et moi, en vérité, je ne sais en quoi j'ai mérité le bonheur d'être le mari de Mercédès.

Le bonheur est comme ces palais des îles enchantées dont les dragons gardent les portes. Il faut combattre pour le conquérir, et moi, en vérité, je ne sais en quoi j'ai mérité le bonheur d'être le mari de Mercédès.

E sei que do fundo do abismo onde os lançaram os seus inimigos se ergueram com tanto vigor e glória que dominaram o seu antigo vencedor e o derrubaram por seu turno.

They would have too easy a conquest over four separate men; whilst four men united make a troop.

the European is to the other races of mankind, what man is to the lower animals;—he makes them subservient to his use; and when he cannot subdue, he destroys them.

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce and then to abandon them, until he was at last able to experience how he himself had repeatedly been abandoned by his mother.

She say Columbus come here in boats call the Neater, the Peter, and the Santomareater. Indians so nice to him he force a bunch of 'em back home with him to wait on the queen.

International Law has never stopped men in their pursuit of conquest or revenge.