Quotes About Victory

Isn't one minute of pain worth a lifetime of glory?

One moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory

By the way, I didn't win the 5000-meter race at the Olympics, but making the team and not winning is like going to the moon and stumbling over a rock and falling. So what? You're still on the moon.

If you give everything and you lose, so what? It's not going to put you in your grave. I walked away knowing I could handle defeat gracefully, and I had more self-esteem from that than from winning the race.

A moment of pain is worth a lifetime of victory

If I can do no more, let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

Resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

Every Experience is a Success.

truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

After more than a thousand years," he continued, "an enemy finally broke through. Not because of superior firepower. Not because the Manchus were better fighters or strategists. They weren't. The Manchus breached the Great Wall and took Beijing because someone opened a gate. From the inside. As simple as that. A general, a traitor, let them in and an empire fell.

I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me. The whole thing.

He was far beyond his depth, in his sea of glory," said Gamache.

She who laughs last laughs the laughingest.

This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.

The Gods are not to be feared; death cannot be felt; the good can be won; what we dread can be conquered.

If the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato.

Victrix causa deis placuit sed victa Catoni

In expert tennis, 80% of the points are won, while in amateur tennis, 80% are lost. The same is true for wrestling, chess, and investing: Beginners should focus on avoiding mistakes, experts on making great moves." Erik Falkenstein

come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.