Quotes About Conquest

Mountaineering

To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

It was quick work. He came, he saw, I conquered!

Attack work! Even the toughest work will start running away! Attack the difficulties! This is the Golden Rule of every kind of victory.

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

God will really make your enemy your footstool

Winners make a decision to win.

Non c'è conquista che abbia senso, non c'è guerra che valga la pena di combattere. Alla fine, l'unica terra che ci rimane è quella in cui verremo sepolti.

There is no conquest that has any meaning, there is no war worth fighting. In the end, the only earth left to us is the earth in which we are buried.

Valerio Massimo Manfredi

There is a strange lack of dignity in conquest; the dull, uncomplaining endurance of defeat appears more worthy of congratulation.

Everything bows to success, even grammar.

We have conquered everything, and everything has slipped out of our grasp.

I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland.

When the enemy starts to collapse you must pursue him without the chance of letting go. If you fail to take advantage of your enemies collapse, they may recover.

More ominously, Native American tribal areas were not included on early European maps of the Americas, giving readers of those maps the impression no one lived there—at least, no one of consequence. No landowners. These are the kinds of blanks that fire Marlow's imagination in Conrad's Heart of Darkness—the blanks that certain minds found to be a call for colonialism and conquest.

It's easy to win. Anybody can win.

Love is not about conquest. The truth is a man can only find true love when he surrenders to it. When he opens his heart to the partner of his soul and says: Here it is! The very essence of me! It is yours to nurture or destroy.

Beware the wooden horse, Agamemnon King, Conqueror, for it will roar to the skies on wings of thunder and herald the death of nations.

grinned. 'Xenophon taught me that victory is achieved by putting the thought of defeat into the heart of your enemy. To him goes the honour.

There's this general feeling in the Hella Colony that we'll never conquer the planet if we hide behind the fences of Summerland Station. So we have to go ourselves, smell the air and taste the world. We have to feel the dirt between our fingers. If we are ever going to make this planet ours, we have to give up our fear of it and get into a genuinely courageous relationship. That's what Captain Skyler says.