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Quotes About Victory

No one wins the greatest victory until he has walked the winepress of woe.
~ Lettie B. Cowman
Got any rivers they say are uncrossable, Got any mountains they say "can't tunnel through"? We specialize in the wholly impossible, Doing the things they say you can't do. song of the Panama Canal builders
~ Lettie B. Cowman
But let us never forget that the source of helping other people must be victorious suffering.
~ Lettie B. Cowman
Being left alone by Satan is not evidence of being blessed.
~ Lettie B. Cowman
Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
~ Lev Grossman
This isn't how it ends!" Quentin said. "I am the hero of this goddamned story, Ember! Remember? And the hero gets the reward!" "No, Quentin," the ram said. "The hero pays the price.
~ Lev Grossman
He would lose whatever he had to lose, if that's what it took to win.
~ Lev Grossman
Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change. There
~ Lev Grossman
For every hero, don't legions of foot soldiers have to die in the background? It was a matter of numbers, like the corpse in the castle said. Just work out the sums.
~ Lev Grossman
You wish to be a hero, but you do not know what a hero is. You think a hero is one who wins. But a hero must be prepared to lose,
~ Lev Grossman
Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.
~ lewis c s
I think I'm competitive. Competition fuels me. The urge to win. I want to win; I want the ball in my hands when it really counts. I want to be the best I can be. I want to come in every day and do everything I can to be the best that I can.
~ Case Keenum
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
~ Woodrow Wilson
We used to play marbles for keeps. If you lost, you lost. It is the same way with politics, but not everybody knows this.
~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan
You need the life of a champion. It's always useful to have people around you who can help you doing that.
~ Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
There's always great things that champions do. It can be inside fighting, this person uses his range well, this person has a great right hand - anytime you fight a champion, there's multiple things that they do well, and you have to try to take those strengths away.
~ Andre Ward
I have battled clinical depression and have come out of the other side. I've been free of it for many years now. Finding the place in my own mind and heart to win that battle without using medication, finding the place within myself where I could be alive again, that was one of the biggest challenges I've faced.
~ Evangeline Lilly
Lara always tells people that he beat me in the amateurs. I lost to him in international competition when I was just 17 years old. In that fight, he ran around as usual. I thought I had really won that fight.
~ Demetrius Andrade
I would love to bring the state of Utah their first championship. I think that's one thing I've always wanted.
~ Donovan Mitchell
Obviously, throwing leg kicks in the first round is not smart, but it's something that I can really utilize in the later rounds to both score points and look to finish the fight.
~ Cain Velasquez
When you play against top players, sometimes you can play - you can play your utmost and you still get beat.
~ Tim Howard
We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
Well, The Dirty Dozen was like a vacation.
~ Clint Walker
Standing on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and receiving a gold medal was the crowning jewel in a successful gymnastics career and, most certainly, the confirmation that my parents' sacrifices were not in vain.
~ Dominique Moceanu