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Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition. -- Jacques Hadamard
Either conquer the night, or become one of its conquests. -- Abigail Biddinger
Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests. -- Louisa May Alcott
To do a little good is more than to accomplish great conquests. -- Gautama Buddha
Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests. -- Albert Claude
The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests. -- Charles Lindbergh
Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past. -- Alexander Pope
The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace! -- Lord Byron
Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition. -- Morris Kline
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Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease. -- William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling
The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'. -- Maria Montessori
Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less. -- Victor Hugo
Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement. -- James A. Champy
Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom. -- Dwight L. Moody
It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie. -- Isabel Allende
Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors. -- Francis Quarles
It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests. -- Richard Dawkins
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them. -- Jean Genet
The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it. -- Jacques Hadamard
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is an erroneous tendency to view empire-building by rulers from urban-agrarian kingdoms (Alexander, for example) as strategic genius, while treating nomad imperial conquests like natural disasters. -- James A. Millward
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests. -- Moliere
God doesn't author hardship but uses it to strengthen us for greater conquests. He never leads us into a storm that He doesn't give us the power to overcome. -- John Bevere
The conflict between secular Zionism and the settler movement did not appear overnight following Israel's conquests in the 1967 war, for there was an argument that bridged the gap: security. -- Elliott Abrams
Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity. -- Nayef Al-Rodhan
As I was growing up, people were always trying to talk about their sexual conquests, trying to make themselves appear like a cassanova. I'm surprised you haven't heard that, I really am. -- Benjamin Carson
To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests. -- Moliere
It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests. -- Isaac Asimov
There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe - without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades. -- Muammar al-Gaddafi
Men tend to lie when it comes to sexual conquests. You should hear some of the ego-driven lies my friends have told me: 'Swear to God, man - the hooker gave the money back.' -- Adam Ferrara
It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth much, when it has suffered the devastations of a siege. -- Samuel Johnson
The press, watchful with more than the hundred eyes of Argus, strong with more than the hundred arms of Briareus, not only guards all the conquests of civilization, but leads the way to future triumphs. -- Charles Sumner
The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual and spiritual powers for conquests in the fields of thought and higher action. -- Henry Ford

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