Quotes About Victory

Winning is a test with no correct answers .

everything is impossible until someone does it.

Working through physical challenges that would put others on the bench just so you can taste the sweetness of winning one more time—that is what separates the good and great from the unstoppable.

You don't let your enemies take your balls, you don't let them set up shop in your head.

Everyone has the will to win, but it's only those with the will to prepare that do win.

I did it! I stopped time. [Hampton Green]

Evil dies tonight!

sometimes victory doesn't go to the strongest or swiftest. Sometimes it goes to a desperate dead man with deep pockets.

We're not going to lose it. That's all there is to it," Richard Nixon said to Kissinger on February 18, as Lam Son 719 became a debacle. "We can't lose. We can lose an election, but we're not going to lose this war, Henry.… North Vietnam can never beat South Vietnam. Never.

But they learned to their sorrow that their enemies could not be defeated by military might alone. Vietnam was the most bitter lesson: it was a political war, and it could not be won by force of arms. American leaders, at least some of them, would come to understand that victory or defeat in political warfare depended less on American power and statecraft than on the spirit of the people in the lands where they were waged.

And though I've lived to be an old man with my very own share of happiness for all the mess I made, I still judge every joyous moment, every victory and revelation against those few seconds of living.

Napoleon rarely marched off to battle without hundreds of cases of Moët & Chandon in tow. "I drink champagne when I win," he said, "and I drink champagne when I lose.

Hartwell was not going down without a fight, but if the elements finally beat him, he wanted a record of his struggle; maybe it would serve as a warning to some future nester. The problem with history was that it was written by the survivors, and they usually wrote in the sunshine, on harvest day, from victory stands. So Hartwell started his diary at the darkest hour.

Timothy Egan

to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

ground. In 1917, about forty-five

The problem with history was that it was written by the survivors, and they usually wrote in the sunshine on harvest day, from victory stands.

Better for a man to fail, he said, even "to fail greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

In the end, winning is sleeping better." —Jodie Foster

There is just less competition for bigger goals.

If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly." –Colonel David Hackworth

Puertas de fuego (Grijalbo Mondadori, 1999), de Steven Pressfield.

I've seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.

Nothing you face today will be harder than what you just did.