Quotes About Conquest

I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men.

The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.

Victory passes back and forth between men.

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine

Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world. - Dr. Grief

The Indians are still winning the battle against the white men, but sooner or later, the white guy will win.

Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor.

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

If you beat the Man, who was the Man, then you're the Man.

Although the mass of the people accepted the white man's God, either under physical duress or because he seemed more powerful than their own Gods, they never assimilated the ideas of Christianity.

Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.

When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute to a monarchy that he knew not, man's empire over himself.

A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to be conquered and civilised.

Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.

Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there.

Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win

We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing.

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

This shall hence become my music.