Conquest quotes

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◆ With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you

- Genghis Khan100

◆ India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border

- Hu Shih99

◆ Conquest is not in our principles; it is inconsistent with our government.

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ He conquers who conquers himself

- Latin Proverb99

◆ If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.

- Napoleon Bonaparte99

◆ If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.

- Charlotte Smith99

◆ Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.

- Walter Martin99

◆ I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it's your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.

- Audre Lorde99

◆ Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom;

- Samuel Johnson99

◆ Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

- Bishop Desmond Tutu99

◆ To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

- Sun Tzu99

◆ First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.

- Rob Gilbert99

◆ The goal of evolution is self - conquest

- Elbert Hubbard99