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The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self. — Muhammad

Conquest is easy. Control is not. — William Shatner

The goal of evolution is self - conquest — Elbert Hubbard

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What girl could fail to make a conquest who collapsed at a man's feet in the moonlight? — John L. Balderston

The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered. — Alexander The Great

He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors.
[Lat., Victor victorum cluet.] — Plautus

Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state. — Thomas Gray

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being. — Ludwig Von Mises

My life was too short to acheive the conquest of the whole world ... — Genghis Khan

We shall have world government whether you like it or not, by conquest or consent. — James Warburg

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. — John Boyd Orr

And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind,
The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind. — Homer

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. — William Shakespeare

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land. — Moshe Dayan

To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter. — Laozi

I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest. — Silvio Berlusconi

When Elizabeth II was crowned - the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest - the world lit up in her favour. — Kate Williams

Govenment is founded on property
Property is founded on conquest
Conquest is founded on power
All power is founded on brain and brawn. — Ragnar Redbeard

Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought? — Lord Byron

No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest. — Algernon Sidney

Don't change the beggar into a conqueror, because it was the beggar who led you to conquest. — Witold Gombrowicz

This world is for those who are born to conquer it, Not for those who dream that are able to conquer it, even if they're right. — Fernando Pessoa

To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder. — Laozi

There is a strange lack of dignity in conquest; the dull, uncomplaining endurance of defeat appears more worthy of congratulation. — Vera Brittain

Moslem conquest. — Charles E. Chapman

What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self. — Charles Spurgeon

A book is not a battle, nor is it a conquest. A book is a story, and telling it should be an enjoyable exercise. — Rachel Aaron

The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men. — Ayn Rand

I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest. — Luis Bunuel

Power and alliance for them, slavery and conquest over us. — Euripides

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquest ... — Charles A. Lindbergh

Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest
that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment. — Neal Shusterman

War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party. — Tacitus

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

Self conquest is the greatest of victories. — Plato

Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast.
What shall I do to shun the snares of death? — Christopher Marlowe

They would have too easy a conquest over four separate men; whilst four men united make a troop. — Alexandre Dumas

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault. — Robert Conquest

Previous seekers of empire tended to assume that they already understood the world. Conquest merely utilised and spread their view of the world. — Yuval Noah Harari

The lust of conquest, when associated with religious fanaticism, has been the greatest scourge of the human race. — William Deans

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation. — Charles De Secondat

Everyone is conservative about what he knows best. — Robert Conquest

Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms. — John Milton

SUMMIT PLUMMET
Celeb's conquest of a mountain, then jumping off, too exhausted to descend
Kamil Ali — Kamil Ali

The Yogi believes in psychic control and the conquest of internal nature. "How — Swami Vivekananda

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

From the first, the act of conquest, which reduces persons to the status of things, is necrophilia — Paulo Freire

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Better conquest never canst thou make than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts against giddy, loose suggestions. — William Shakespeare

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. — George Eliot

Joy is a blessing but it often it is a conquest — Paulo Coelho

I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest. — Pat Barker

In marriage they legitimized despair; every kiss is the conquest of a repulsion. — Lawrence Durrell

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. — Walter Lippmann

The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty. — Michel De Montaigne

London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media. — Peter York

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back — Seneca The Elder

Survival is the key word to remember - not victory, not conquest, just survival. — Max Brooks

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

Conquer land like Napoleon, military bomb fest
We want sanitary food, planetary conquest — U-God

At every place where we halted, did she mount the stage, and flourished her rusty arms, without being able to make one conquest. — Tobias Smollett

God brings his grace into the heart by conquest. — William Gurnall

Liberty isn't bestowed; it's achieved. It is not a gift; it's a conquest. It does not abide; it must be preserved. — Albert E. Bowen

The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war. — James Smith McDonnell

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love. — Herman Melville

In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention. — Frederick Lenz

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. — Ludwig Von Mises

That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. — William Shakespeare

The worth is in the fight, not the conquest. Do not give up. — Alexandra Bracken

I wonder if we should add a box to tick off
Reason for travel: creepy planetary conquest ... no, I suppose not. — Lois McMaster Bujold

A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world. — Vladimir Putin

A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him. — Akbar

But none of it will be real. None of them will want me. My throne, yes. Prestige. A conquest. But not me. — Rae Carson

Whatever else the Norman Conquest may or may not have done, it made the old haphazard state of legal affairs forever impossible. — Edward Jenks

To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit. — William Barrett

The great conquest is the result of small, unnoticed victories. — Paulo Coelho

The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing. — Joseph Conrad

The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The greatest conquest is the courage to be yourself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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 Khan

What glory can there be in the conquest of a mindless body? — Ayn Rand

Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest. — Norman Vincent Peale

In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles ... — Jane Porter

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India ... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith. — Ignatius Of Loyola

A hero isn't a hero until he brings the boon back to the tribe. — Carlo Arellano

International Law has never stopped men in their pursuit of conquest or revenge. — Allen Drury

Two glittering eyes peered at the three young men and the catawyld clicked the back of its tongue in warning.
"I hate these things," Bracy growled — Nicole Sager

The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest — Stewart Udall

Conquest was once over the outer territories, but the new conquest is for the inner-territories of our hearts. — Bryant McGill

She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness. — Milan Kundera

We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe. — Rachel Carson

Love is a conquest. Love is a war. That is all it is. — Marissa Meyer

Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home. — Jared Diamond

Freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged ... the freest person is the one with the most hope. — Gabriel Marcel

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology. — Steven Pinker

What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them? — Bertrand Russell

When deliberating, think in campaigns and not battles; in wars and not
campaigns; in ultimate conquest and not wars. — Steven Pressfield

It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest. — Philip Sidney

In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it. — Jared Diamond