Conquer Quotes - Page 9

• Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.50

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• 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

  Gratitude, Heart, Mean

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• What really matters when facing a challenge? What matters is learning. You want to test yourself, throw yourself into something outside your comfort zone and see what youre capable of. Your true goal is not to conquer fifty feet of inanimate rock, but to expand your abilities through learning.

  Arno Hintjens

  What Matters, Rocks, Feet

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• We live in a society where manhood is all about conquering and violence. And what we don't realize is that ultimately that kind of manhood ultimately kills you.

  Kevin Powell

  Violence, Kind, Realizing

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• Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves, and to save all those who rely upon you. You have only to go right on, and at the end of the road, be it short or long, victory and honor will be found.

  Winston Churchill

  Rely Upon, Long, Honor

  Winston Churchill's remarks at the Guildhall after the first British naval victory of World War I (September 4, 1914), as quoted in Martin Gilbert "Churchill: A Life" (p. 279), October 15, 1992.

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• Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny which has ever darkened and stained the pages of history. Behind them ... gather a group of shattered States and bludgeoned races: the Czechs, the Poles, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Dutch, the Belgians -- upon all of whom the long night of barbarism will descend, unbroken even by a star of hope, unless we conquer, as conquer we must; as conquer we shall.

  Winston Churchill

  Stars, Night, Race

  Arm Yourselves and Be Ye Men of Valour, BBC Radio Broadcast 19 May 1940

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• Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Passion, Men, Overcoming

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• Hope nothing from foreign governments. They will never be really willing to aid you until you have shown that you are strong enough to conquer without them.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Strong, Government, Enough

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1872). “Joseph Mazzini His Life, Writings, and Political Principles”, p.92

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• An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Reality, Imagination, Faces

  1904 Larry Doyle to Tom Broadbent. John Bull's Other Island, Act 1.

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• A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of them?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Children, Conquer The World, Single Life

  "Aviation, Geography, and Race". Reader's Digest, pp. 64-67, November 1939.

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• We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Order, May, Mere

  C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

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• When you're up against a trouble, meet it squarely, face to face. Lift your chin and set your shoulders, plant your feet and take a brace. When it's vain to try to dodge it, do the best that you can do. You may fail, but you may conquer. See it through!

  Edgar Guest

  Feet, Trying, May

  Edgar Albert Guest, “See It Through”

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• If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradise, paradise can exist, in some other place or country dimensionally reminiscent of our own. The sad stories live there too, but in that country, we know what they mean and why they happened. We make our way back from them, finding the way through a bountiful wilderness we begin to understand. Years are nothing: Story conquers all distance.

  Jayne Anne Phillips

  Country, Memories, Distance

  FaceBook post by Jayne Anne Phillips from Feb 25, 2012

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• In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.

  James Burgh

  Loss, Discovery, Opponents

  James Burgh (1816). “Of prudence”, p.38

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• The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself!

  Franz Stampfl

  Athlete, Defeat, Cross Country Running

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• Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Humility, Pride, Order

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• 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

  Strong, Purpose, Facts

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• 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

  Sweet, Night, Light

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• Before me now there is only one real fact -- Death. The truth I have been seeking -- this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So -- we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace. Because I will conquer death with death.

  Bruce Lee

  Death, Real, Forever

  "The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee" by John Little, (p. 77), 1996.

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• From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues the fruit-fed races, founds mighty realms by subjugating other subjugators, forms states and sets up civilisations, to enjoy his prey at rest.

  Richard Wagner

  Men, Race, Land

  Richard Wagner (1897). “Religion and Art”, p.227, U of Nebraska Press

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• Death's dry bones glowed with light in the erotic dark but he woke not nor felt the two warm bodies merge; the male worm then took heart and in his wife's ear whispered: "With one sweet kiss, dear wife, we've conquered conquering Death!

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Sweet, Heart, Dark

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “the Odyssey a Modern Sequel”

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• Not the power to conquer others but the power to become one with others is the ultimate power.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Ultimate, Ultimate Power

  "Ten Thousand Flower Flames Part 1-100" by Sri Chinmoy, (#8756, Part 88), 1979.

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• Instead of respecting things, we want to use them for ourselves and if it is difficult to use them, we want to conquer them.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Use, Want, Difficult

  "Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen". Book by Shunryū Suzuki. Chapter: "Respect For Things", p. 81, 2002.

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• The writer is often faced with two choices--turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling with it. The writer who chooses the former soon runs out of energy and produces elegantly tired fiction.

  Chinua Achebe

  Running, Writing, Tired

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “There Was a Country: A Memoir”, p.50, Penguin

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• The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should have lived as if in a bell jar, cut off from the rest; why was it not able to expand and conquer the whole of society?... [Why was it that] a significant rate of capital formation was possible only in certain sectors and not in the whole market economy of the time?

  Fernand Braudel

  Cutting, Past, Keys

  Fernand Braudel (1982). “Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The wheels of commerce”, p.248, Univ of California Press

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