Quotes About Victory

Orson Scott Card

it's for people like that, short-sighted, suicidal people, that we're pushing Ender to the edge of human endurance.' 'I think you underestimate Ender.' 'But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?' 'Sir, those words sound like treason.' 'It was black humor.

Conservar la dignidad y mostrar respeto donde es debido, para que la derrota no sea una deshonra.

said Ender cheerfully.

The enemy may outgun us, but they will never outthink us.

it was Hitler's mistakes, his weaknesses, his fears, his hatreds, that lost the back half of the war, just as it was his drive, his decisions, that won the front half.

Veni, vidi, vinci

I didn't fight with honor,' Ender added. 'I fought to win.

The snake began to unweave itself from the rug again, only this time Ender did not hesitate. He stepped on the head of the snake and crushed it under his foot. It writhed and twisted under him, and in response he twisted and ground it deeper into the stone floor. Finally it was still. Ender picked it up and shook it, until it unwove itself and the pattern in the rug was gone. Then, still dragging the snake behind him, he began to look for a way out.

Orson Scott Card

They were trying to get human beings to define themselves as all belonging to one tribe. It had happened briefly when they were threatened by creatures who truly were strangers; then the human race had felt itself to be one people, and united in order to repel an enemy. And the moment victory was achieved, it all fell apart, and long-

Knocking him down was the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. - Ender

We are following with great concern the preparations of the crusaders to launch war on the former capital of Muslims...and to install a puppet government... Fight these despots. I remind you that victory comes only from God. The fighting should be in the name of God only, not in the name of national ideologies nor to seek victory for the ignorant governments that rule all Arab states, including Iraq. [ bin Laden's message: fight the 'crusaders' ]

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Great things.

To win a war or a revolution does not validate the cause.

The defeated have their cause and the victors have their victory.

In the smoking dawn the party riding ragged and bloody with their baled peltries looked less like victors than the harried afterguard of some ruined army retreating across the meridians of chaos and old night, the horses stumbling, the men tottering asleep in the saddles.

Every soldier had to battle his weaker self. His weaker self had brought Donnersmarck to his knees, trembling. He had screamed it away, he had outrun it, he had drowned it in the blood of others. And he had always defeated it.

At last. Here they came. Trumpets rang out in a fanfare L. from the city gates, an arrogant metallic sound.

Er war schon lange der Beste.

It was the middle of the night, and Bingo couldn't sleep. The ground was hard, but he was used to that… . His blanket was dirty and smelled disgusting, but he was used to that too. A tune kept going through his head, and he couldn't get it out of his mind. It was the Wendels' victory song. Michael de Larrabeiti, The Borribles Go for Broke