Quotes about Conquest

I must tell you a great truth, Much-Afraid, which only the few understand. All the fairest beauties in the human soul, its greatest victories, and its most splendid achievements are always those which no one else knows anything about, or can only dimly guess at. Every inner response of the human heart to Love and every conquest over self-love is a new flower on the tree of Love.

The land promised to them was one of incredible goodness—"flowing with milk and honey," as it is repeatedly described. But it still had to be conquered by careful, persistent, and intelligent human action, over a long period of time.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

Real self-conquest is the conquest of ourselves not by ourselves but by the Holy Spirit. Self-conquest is really self-surrender.

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

We will accept nothing less than full Victory!

Trust unites, fear divides, mercy heals, and love conquers.

How beautiful is victory, but how dear!

To overcome in battle, and subdue nations, and bring home spoils with infinite man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch 0f human glory.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.