Quotes About Victory

Man is spirit--that is all man needs to know; and spirit is triumphant over matter.

Candella Rautenbach.

Aboli went on.

Your ambition has cost you dear, sir," Hal said, trying to keep a rein on his fury. In victory a true warrior must show forbearance, his father had once said. He must not give in to the base instinct for revenge.

isn't that great!' But the

Ralph let out a whoop

THIS is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

Oh death, thou hast thy sting! oh, grave, thou hast thy victory!

This is a matter of curiosity; and you have got a woman for your ally. Under such conditions success is certain, sooner or later.

When the universe has crushed him man will still be nobler than that which kills him, because he knows that he is dying, and of its victory the universe knows nothing.

There is no greater drama in human record than the sight of a few Christians, scorned or oppressed by a succession of emperors, bearing all trials with a fierce tenacity, multiplying quietly, building order while their enemies generated chaos, fighting the sword with the word, brutality with hope, and at last defeating the strongest state that history has known. Caesar and Christ had met in the arena, and Christ had won.

Pascal: "When the universe has crushed him man will still be nobler than that which kills him, because he knows that he is dying, and of its victory the universe knows nothing.

It was a great moral improvement when men ceased to kill or eat their fellowmen, and merely made them slaves. A similar development on a larger scale may be seen today, when a nation victorious in war no longer exterminates the enemy, but enslaves it with indemnities.

So the first biological lesson of history is that life is competition.

but trial by combat was unknown.

Cuando el universo aplaste al hombre, este seguirá siendo más noble que aquel que lo mata, porque sabrá que está muriendo, mientras que de su victoria el universo no sabrá nada».

There can be no victory over the ills of life until the will has been utterly subordinated to knowledge and intelligence.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.

The goal was to defeat the enemy by limiting its ability to make good decisions.

Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.

Mr William, he said, in my life six times have I crashed, and on not one occasion have I ever been killed.( Bevinda Singh taxi driver from City of Djinns

There is a man who has won the decathlon of human existence."*

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.