quotes about Conqueror
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A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
-- Edmund WallerSource : 'Panegyric to My Lord Protector' 46
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Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.
-- Ernst Zundel -
Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.
-- Francis Quarles -
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Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.
-- Herbert KaufmanSource : Herbert Kaufman (1910). “The Winning Fight”
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Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?
-- Homer -
Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.
-- Joe Lieberman -
The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.
-- Konrad Adenauer -
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Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.
-- Lin Yutang -
Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.
-- Paramahansa Yogananda -
Humanity always becomes a conqueror.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan -
Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?
-- William Rowan Hamilton -
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Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
-- William Shakespeare -
History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.
-- Christina BaldwinSource : Christina Baldwin, Ann Linnea (2010). “The Circle Way: A Leader in Every Chair”, p.144, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Any conqueror in human history has always been ultimately someone who exists purely for the expansion of their own ego, through amounting more.
-- Scott Derrickson