Quotes About Victory

Es frecuente ganar las discusiones por puntos, pero perder la batalla.

The woman always wins. With courage, intelligence, and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on earth, the human male, to his knees.

Everyone is vulnerable to something. The trick is to recognize your own weaknesses and blind spots so that you can come up with a way to protect them.

Then, slowly, it filled her. An urge, like none she had ever known, rose out of her depths, grew in her throat, and burst from her mouth in a primal scream of victory. She did it! At that moment, in a lonely valley in the middle of a vast continent, somewhere near the undefined boundary of the desolate northern loess steppes and the wetter continental steppes to the south, a young woman stood with a bone club in her hand—and felt powerful. She could survive. She would survive.

It wasn't exultation she felt, not the excitement of a first kill or even the satisfaction of overcoming a powerful beast. It was something deeper, more humbling. It was the knowledge that she had overcome herself.

That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.

There's no such thing as a limited victory. You must protect what you have won. You must take is seriously.

There's no such thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeated and humiliated people. Another place to guard and defend and fear.

THERE'S NO SUCH thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeated and humiliated people. Another place to guard and defend and fear. What I learned about war in the years before I came to this lonely place were things any child could have told me. 'Will you kill people, Henri?' 'Not people, Louise, just the enemy.' 'What is enemy?' 'Someone who's not on your side.

There is a spontaneous round of applause in the hall... Victor looks unhappy. He wouldn't call it unhappy, he would call it misunderstood. He waits... Then he does one of the things he does so well -- heads out of the sciences and into the arts: To name things wrongly is to add to the misfortune of the world.

So much good my persecutors have done me by recklessly pouring out all the shafts of their hatred. They have deprived themselves of any power over me and henceforward I can laugh at them. It

Esta idea me causó horror, tomé la firme resolución de combatirme y vencerme a mí mismo, si desgraciadamente se apoderaba de mí esta inclinación.

We are tanks and guns. We are force of history. We will crush them beneath our heels like bugs.

That was the thing to remember about all monsters, Dad said: They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run. "All you have to do, Mountain Goat, is show old Demon that you're not afraid.

Dad's death didn't hollow me out the way Helen's had. After all, everyone had assumed Dad was a goner back when he got kicked in the head as a child. Instead, he had cheated death and, despite his gimp and speech impediment, lived a long life doing pretty much what he wanted. He hadn't drawn the best of cards, but he'd played his hand darned well, so what was there to grieve over?

The scar meant that I was stronger than what had tried to hurt me.

That was the thing to remember about all monsters, Dad said: They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

At the same time, I learned that you always lose. Only the rascals think they win.

Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.

Set the goal and work all days for it, until you achieve, I want to be a champion, the best!

Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.

Hard work always wins in the end.