Quotes About Victory

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Eddie and Jim both said it was a great thing the Russians were winning because the strongest team should win. Shannon thought the fascist philosophy was a very comfortable one. You simply cheered for the winner, who proved by virtue of winning that he should have won. No analysis, no doubts, no troubling moral questions.

Be glad today how very easily is hell undone. You need but tell yourself: 8 I am the holy Son of God Himself. I cannot suffer, cannot be in pain; I cannot lose, nor can I fail to do All that salvation asks. 9 And in that thought is everything you look on wholly changed. 10

And so they easily suppose that this truce, owing to helplessness, is victory and that they have convinced the other man. But in fact, instead of winning him over, they have merely applied a kind of shock therapy — only it was never 'therapy.' They have smothered the first little flame of a man's own spiritual life and a first shy question with the fire extinguisher of their erudition. By such performances a person can really be smothered and strangled!

The greatest deed in war is the speediest end of that war, and every means to that end must remain open.

Life is seen as an ongoing war between art and philistinism - and although the philistines may win some of the battles, it is literature that always wins the war.

By achieving these small goals you can use the winner effect to gain momentum on achieving bigger goals. Essentially you feel more confident.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

I believe, in spite of all, in truth's victory. I believe in the momentous value, hereafter inviolable, of those few truly fraternal men in all the countries of the world, who, in the oscillation of national egoisms let loose, stand up and stand out, steadfast as the glorious statues of Right and Duty.

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.

The people's revolution is on the march, and the devil and all his angels cannot prevail against it.

Ivy League bumblers and drunks who had once pulled the levers of secret gov't in an age of high anxiety...These were the bastards who beat the bastards, unless it was all just dumb luck.

Excitement is impossible where there is no contest.

But this was not enough to check the English. The French stronghold, owing largely to the efforts of Mr. Pitt and the British navy, was doomed, and the brave garrison, deserting their hopeless post, permitted Forbes to march in unmolested, and name his conquest Fort Pitt.

I prefer the troubled ocean of war...to the tranquil, putrescent pool of ignominious peace.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

The humanity of what is called "sudden conversion" has never been insisted on as it deserves. . . . While growth is a slow and gradual process, the change from Death to Life, alike in the natural and spiritual spheres, is the work of the moment. Whatever the conscious hour of the second birth may be—in the case of an adult it is probably defined by the first real victory over sin—it is certain that on biological principles the real turning-point is literally a moment.

When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....

Es gibt mehr Leute, die kapitulieren, als solche, die scheitern.

Khi m?i th? d??ng nh? ??u ch?ng l?i b?n, hãy nh? r?ng máy bay c?t cánh ng??c gió, không ph?i theo chi?u gió.

A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla army wins if it does not lose.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.