Conquering Quotes

Vae Victis Woe to the vanquished

A French bastard arriving with armed banditti and establishing himself the King of England against the consent of the natives is in plain terms a very paltry rascally original and certainly has no divinity in it…. If the succession runs in the line of the conqueror the nation runs in the line of being conquered and ought to rescue itself

When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27.

He [Lord Rosebery] would not stoop [to common politics]; he did not conquer.

As I told a friend of mine once who asked me why I joined Mercury, I think if I had been alive 150 years ago, I might have wanted to go out and help open up the West.

No, I'm never pleased if we don't win some type of championship, meaning Big 12 or national.

The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.

We are currently not planning on conquering the world.

I love winning. I don't like losing.

It is not enough to dream of the Impossible Love - it is necessary to conquer it too.

Kickin', ass takin' names, cashing checks, and breakin necks, the champ is here.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy.

The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.

Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one feels the glory of being a man and of conquering the elements. There is an exquisite smoothness of motion and the joy of gliding through space. It is wonderful!

What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego.

Tyson Fury should be looked at as someone who conquered the world, defeating a nine-year king in Wladimir Klitschko.

Patience is a conquering virtue.

No one's ever done what AC/DC did out of anywhere, really. Conquered the world, mate, that was the idea from the start. A little Napoleon in all of us.

Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.

Westward, ever westward.

For life affords no higher pleasure, than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. He that labours in any great or laudable undertaking, has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy... To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.