Conquering Quotes

Everyone has determination - it`s a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering; she doesn`t care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we`re very, very different.

The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It`s about conquering that bear and letting him go.

It was one of my best recent years. And now I`m not drinking at all. I wasn`t slurring my words. I wasn`t falling over, but I realized it had become an addiction for me. And in my profession, it`s a terrible flaw to fall into. I believe I did it in time. (On conquering his alcohol addiction in 2000)

It`s not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.

I`ll still answer to Rob, ... conquering lion.

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

Conquering kings their titles take / From the foes they captive make: / Jesus, by a nobler deed,/ From the thousands He hath freed.

It`s also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one`s liberty.

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

(Boyden remembers hearing that when Pegahmagabow returned to Canada, he was made a conquering hero before the promises of rewards for hard service evaporated.) He wanted to begin to raise horses and to start farming, ... He went to his Indian agent (a government employee who managed the Indian reserves) and asked for a $300 loan and the agent turned him down, saying: `How can I trust you with animals?`

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.