“We do not conquer the lands, we conquer the hearts.”
Mehmed II (1432–1481) Ottoman sultan
Source: Aşıkpaşoğlu History (Prepared: Atsız), 154
“Conquered, we conquer”
Casina, Act II, scene viii, line 74
Casina (The Lot Drawers)
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“Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.”
William Makepeace Thackeray book The Virginians
Source: The Virginians (1857-1859), Ch. 4.
“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”
Edmund Hillary (1919–2008) New Zealand mountaineer
Though widely attributed to Hillary on the internet and in several Books (e.g. That's Life : Wild Wit & Wisdom (2003) by Bonnie Louise Kuchler, p. 20), this appears to have originated from George Mallory. Source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/08/18/conquer/
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Edmund Hillary / Disputed
“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.”
Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“It was a great deed to conquer Carthage, but a greater deed to conquer death.”
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXIV: On despising death
“He who has conquered is not conqueror
Unless the conquered one confesses it.”
Qui vincit non est victor nisi victus fatetur.
Ennius (-239–-169 BC) Roman writer
As quoted by Marcus Servius Honoratus in In Vergilii carmina comentarii (Commentaries on the poems of Virgil), Book XI https://web.archive.org/web/20141219124307/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0053%3Abook%3D11%3Acommline%3D306
Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine
Source: The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great