Quotes About Victory

Mr. Strike Out!

It was hollow, my triumph, I could feel that, but I held on to it just the same.

plunge ahead, put one foot in front of the other, straighten your back and your shoulders and everything else that is likely to slump, buck up and go forward, and in this way, every obstacle, be it physical or only imaged, falls face down in obeisance and in absolute defeat...

How do you get to be the sort of victor who can claim to be the vanquished also?

Jamela Dunbar

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.

Prima di tutto la paura, che nasce dal non capire che Cristo ha già vinto: siamo già dalla parte del vincitore! Quindi, è un tradimento della propria fede la paura: «Non abbiate paura, io ho vinto il mondo».

The armored creatures wrestled one another, and when one seemed about to climb out of the basket and make its escape, the others would grab it and haul it back down into the endless battle.

I never said that. We'll all be hurt, child. We will all be hurt. What I said was: they shall not overpower you.

I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.

Resistance never disappears; it waits in the shadows, sometimes for many years, and then eventually sprouts again. You may have gone through dark times when you felt, "I just can't fight this anymore, I give up," yet you rebound after a while to try again to recover your rights. And one day you will succeed.

it seems like a disaster, but somehow it all comes together at the last minute, and you make it through.

I smile. No plan can take everything into account. Other people will raise their heads, others will desert. Time will go on spreading victory and defeat among those who pursue the struggle. I sip with satisfaction. We deserve the warmth of baths. May the days be aimless. Do not advance the action according to a plan.

In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, Christ hath brought us life again, Wherefore let us all rejoice, Singing loud, with cheerful voice, Hallelujah!

God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong (sin boldly), but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides. We, however, ... are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth where justice will reign.

God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil, the world, and our own flesh delude and draw us away from the true faith, and throw us into superstition, distrust, despair, and other grievous sins and wickedness; and that, if we should be tempted therewith even to the highest degree, we still may conquer, and at last triumph over them.

Maybe surrender, when it was called for, was the hard part. Not the fight.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oak.

There can be no virtue without temptation; for virtue is victory over temptation.

Real human nature is made up of curious contradictions. Strangely conflicting master-passions struggle for the victory.

Courage is the Christian's coronation. There is no crown without it.

An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre."

Persistance is the quality of winners. Successful people never never give up