Quotes About Victory

With her last breath and final erg of energy she topped the wall (sharp-edged as the razor of wisdom) and saw what lay beyond.

This is why cup finals are so special because on the day anyone can beat anyone. That's what it's all about and that's why for me the FA Cup and the Carling Cup are the best cups in the world. That's the beauty of the cup.

The Japanese people were rapidly succumbing to what would later be called shoribyo, or "victory disease"—a faith that Japan was invincible, and could afford to treat its enemies with contempt. Its symptoms were overconfidence, a failure to weigh risks properly, and a basic misunderstanding of the enemy.

A jolt, a white flash, a thunderclap, and the Hayate was torn apart—her bow floated one way, her stern the other, each section bobbing pitifully on the sea, and then both quickly sank, taking 168 men down with them. The battery's crew let out a full-throated cheer. "Knock it off, you bastards, and get back on the guns!" bellowed Platoon Sergeant Henry Bedell. "What do you think this is, a ball game?

He thought reporters a nuisance and at first refused to deal with them at all. It was said, half-jokingly, that King would have liked to say nothing until the end of the war, and then release a two-word communiqué: "We won

But thirty years after that, at the battle of Pydna in 168, the Roman general Aemilius Paullus remarked he had never been so fearful as when he faced the Macedonian phalanx in battle array (pp. 166–167).

player." I nodded, got up, took the mic, kicked some rhymes that were floating around in my head—real impromptu—and won first prize.

Un problema resuelto es tan útil para la mente del hombre como una espada rota en un campo de batalla.

Había fracasado tantas veces que uno también se cansa de fracasar, así como uno se cansa de vencer y de estar sano y de llevar una vida normal.

Es propio del enemigo enflaquecerse y perder ánimo, dando huida sus tentaciones, cuando la persona que se ejercita en las cosas espirituales pone mucho rostro contra las tentaciones del enemigo. Cuando el enemigo de natura humana trae sus astucias y suasiones a la ánima justa, quiere y desea que sean recibidas y tenidas en secreto.

There is no failure, just the gradual process of success.

Officers have been trying for hundreds of years to outsmart soldiers and have still not learned that it cannot be done. We can always count on the native ingenuity of the American GI to save us from ourselves, and to win wars.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.

I already did. The turnout seemed strong already." "We'll know tonight if he's won." He turned toward the door. "I hope you're right. I'll pick you

Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.N.B. A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757 By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.

One with great successes has had equally great hardships.

You have succeeded even when you think you have failed.

Prince Akeem Oh, it was a most amazing game. The Giants of New York took on the Packers of Green Bay. The Giants triumphed by kicking a pigskin ball through a big H. A most ripping victory. Cleo McDowell Son... I'm just going to tell you this one time. If you want to keep working here, stay off the drugs.

Eh bien, soit! Que ma guerre contre l'homme s'éternise, puisque chacun reconnait dans l'autre sa propre dégradation... puisque les deux sont ennemis mortels. Que je doive remporter une victoire désastreuse ou succomber, le combat sera beau: moi, seul, contre l'humanité.

El bien es la victoria sobre el mal, la negación del mal. Si se canta el bien, el mal es eliminado por ese oportuno acto. No canto lo que no hay que hacer. Canto lo que hay que Hacer. Lo primero no contiene lo segundo. Lo segundo contiene lo primero.

We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

The point of war is to win, Kachiun. It does not matter how we do it, or how long it takes.

What is the purpose of life if not to conquer? To steal women and land? I would rather be here and see this than live out my life in peace.

A man needs to feel a little fear, Tolui, if only to have the pride of conquering it.