“Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.”
“Love the quest; marriage the conquest; divorce the inquest”
Helen Rowland
“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 Tutu
“The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.”
Alfred Adler
“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.”
Napoleon Hill
“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 Jefferson