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 | "Brave conquerors! for so you are That war against your own
affections, And the huge army of the world"s desires." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "Conquer a man who never gives by gifts; Subdue untruthful men by
truthfulness; Vanquish an angry man by gentleness; And overcome the evil
man by goodness." | |
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Unknown
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| "Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for
it is almost as well to be subjected to another"s appetite as to thine
own." | |
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Sir Richard Francis Burton
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| "Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will." | |
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James Stephens
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| "Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "He conquers who endures." | |
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Perseus
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| "He is strong who conquers others; He who conquers himself is
mighty." | |
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Lao Tzu
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| "I came, I saw, I conquered." | |
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Gaius Julius Caesar
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| "It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "Labor Conquers All Things. ?Labor omnia vincit" | |
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Proverb
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| "Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque
amemus" | |
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Gaius Valerius Catullus
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| "Love conquers all, and let us yield to it. ?Omnia vincit amor, et
nos cedamus amori" | |
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Publius Vergilius Maro Virgil
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| "PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to
those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of
conquerors." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "See the conquering hero comes! Sound the trumpet, beat the
drums!" | |
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Thomas Morell
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| "The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection." | |
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George Eliot
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| "The Iyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, Thassay so hard, so
sharp the conquenng. .... For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al
this newe corn fro yeer to yere; And out of olde bokes, in good feith,
Cometh al this newe science that men lere." | |
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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| "The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our
conquests over ourselves." | |
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Napoléon Bonaparte
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| "The ruling Passion, be it what it will, The ruling Passion conquers
Reason still." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for
ever!" | |
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Sholem Asch
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| "To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others." | |
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Guatama Buddha
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| "To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence;
supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy"s resistance
without fighting." | |
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Tzu Sun
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| "We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger." | |
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Pierre Corneille
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| "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present
controls the past." | |
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George Orwell
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| "Whoever can surprise well must conquer." | |
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John Paul Jones
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| "You must either conquer and rule or lose and serve, suffer or
triumph, and be the anvil or the hammer." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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