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Quotes About Conquest

Whenever you go into a game, you want to win, and you want to come out victorious in any way.
~ Hilary Knight
My mindset is always to be victorious, to win the match.
~ Diego Costa
If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.
~ Xenophon
Even victors are by victories undone.
~ John Dryden
There is no substitute for victory.
~ Douglas MacArthur
I do not pilfer victory.
~ Alexander the Great
If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.
~ David Sarnoff
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
~ Lucretius
That says it all. When you say, 'Victory,' that says it all.
~ Drew Brees
I feel a strong victory over Gilbert Melendez makes a definite statement.
~ Diego Sanchez
One afternoon, I was playing this new video game, 'Blood and Guts.' I was controlling Gruesome Gus versus the Crimson Menace, and I had totally waxed the guy. It was this really complex sequence of moves, and I was so excited about conquering the game that I wanted to show it to someone. Unfortunately, the only one home at the time was Mom.
~ Kathi Appelt
Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!
~ Sam Houston
It's not treason if you win.
~ Unknown
All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors (who for the most part are but the great butchers of mankind) farther mislead growing youth, who by this means come to think slaughter the laudible business of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues.
~ Unknown
History can only take things in the gross; But could we know them in detail, perchance In balancing the profit and the loss, War's merit it by no means might enhance, To waste so much gold for a little dross, As hath been done, mere conquest to advance. The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
~ Lord Byron
You see what the word of Michael Laski is: a minor but perilous triumph of being over nothingness.
~ Joan Didion
He who rules his spirit has won a greater victory than the taking of a city.
~ Jesus
The most sacred place dwells within our heart, where dreams are born and secrets sleep, a mystical refuge of darkness and light, fear and conquest, adventure and discovery, challenge and transformation. Our heart speaks for our soul every moment while we are alive. Listen... as the whispering beat repeats: be...gin, be...gin, be...gin. It's really that simple. Just begin... again.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
the most dangerous creature in the history of the world, the white man in a suit.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
These invaders came to conquer our land and now would never go home.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
The war against the English was premised against a desire by the European settlers to break out of the Thirteen Colonies and conquer the entire continent; this was a war for colonization, not a war against colonialism.
~ Vijay Prashad
If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
~ Vinoba Bhave