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Quotes About Victory

You can fall, but you can rise also.
~ Angelique Kidjo
This shall hence become my music.
~ Charles XII of Sweden
Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.
~ Wayne Shorter
Good music always defeats bad luck
~ Jack Vance
Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.
~ Siegbert Tarrasch
There's music in everything, even defeat
~ Charles Bukowski
I wore glasses, no music, and I won - I think it was - fifth place. I got a whipping the same day. My mother whipped me for something. Destroyed my ego completely.
~ Elvis Presley
I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!
~ Zac Efron
Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.
~ William Harvey
In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.
~ Thor Heyerdahl
To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
~ Plato
You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit.
~ Jim Whittaker
I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.
~ Maria Sharapova
Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.
~ Romain Rolland
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
~ Sallust
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
~ George Eliot
At what point in my struggle with nature will nature finally give up?
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.
~ Richard Branson
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
~ Charles Dickens
Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
That's the nature of sport, if you look at how Europe has performed they have found a way to win but golf is cyclical and there's not much between the teams.
~ Darren Clarke
Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.
~ Roger L'Estrange
To get over a mountain, you have to climb it.
~ Jonathan Tesch