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Conquer Quotes

Words for facing down whatever stands in your way.

These conquer quotes treat the word as more than a battlefield term: necessity sharpening ability, an outsider carving out space against long odds, and the honesty that conquering rarely happens in absolutes. Pair them with our Conquering collection for more on the same drive.

When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27.

Quotes by Sid Waddell

We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!

Quotes by Sam Houston

It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

Quotes by Sallust

Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.

Quotes by Sabrina Bryan

I don't think there's ever a winner in a feud. It's about emotional pain and an inability to conquer the pain.

Quotes by Ryan Murphy

When I was 22 years old, and I first got to Nashville, women or girls were objects. It was a conquest. My emptiness inside and the external manifestation of my ego was to somehow conquer women.

Quotes by Rodney Crowell

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.

Quotes by Robert Kiyosaki

Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

Quotes by Robert Herrick

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Quotes by Robert A. Cook

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.

Quotes by Raymond Chandler

Every problem seems like a mountain to me, and when I'm fit, I feel like I can conquer anything. When the opposite happens, I go into a funk. A real, real funk.

Quotes by Ranveer Singh

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Plato

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Plato

Conquered, we conquer.

Quotes by Plautus

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Quotes by Pierre Corneille

I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come to the end of it.

Quotes by P. L. Travers

The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the...

Quotes by Oliver Tambo

I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.

Quotes by Norah Jones

I think everybody's trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

Quotes by Nipsey Hussle

Frequently Asked Questions

What is this conquer quotes collection about?
It brings together lines about facing down challenges directly, whether that means overcoming necessity, finding a place against long odds, or admitting victory is rarely total.
Why do people share conquer quotes?
They work well as motivation before a difficult task or milestone, capturing the mindset of pushing through resistance rather than avoiding it.
Is conquering always about winning outright?
Not in this set. One quote argues that conquering isn't enough on its own, and true influence also requires an element of persuasion rather than force alone.
Do any quotes speak to underdog stories?
Yes, one describes carving out a place from the margins, framing conquering as claiming space rather than simply defeating an opponent.
What other pages complement this one?
See our Conquering and Conqueror collections for closely related perspectives.

For related themes of triumph and identity, see our Conqueror and Conquerors pages, both built around the same idea of pushing past resistance.