Quotes About Victory

John Kennedy Toole

He lunged at the glove, deflowering it, stabbing it, conquering it.

Finny never permitted himself to realize that when you won they lost. That would have destroyed the perfect beauty which was sport.

If you're not happy, the jerks win.

There's room at the top, they are telling you still. But first you must learn how to smile as you kill!

Estimates of casualties, civilian and military, are notoriously inexact, but it is likely that some 27 million Soviet citizens died as a direct result of the war—roughly 90 times the number of Americans who died. Victory could hardly have been purchased at greater cost: the U.S.S.R. in 1945 was a shattered state, fortunate to have survived. The war, a contemporary observer recalled, was "both the most fearful and the proudest memory of the Russian people."2

ejército recuerda a la del agua», explica Sun Tzu. Si atacas donde tu enemigo menos lo espera, es decir, «si evitas su fuerza y atacas su punto débil, entonces, como le ocurre al agua, nada se te opondrá».

Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe.

What though the field be lost? All is not Lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And the courage never to submit or yeild.

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows

I like the atmosphere. You can't beat it when you're introduced. I like making a play and hearing the fans scream. I like the physical as well as the emotional aspect, especially when you win.

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory.

It PASSED! Marriage equality in NY!! Yes!! Progress!! Thank you everyone who worked so hard on this!! A historic night!

Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.

I rather have you win, because in God even those who are in second place are first.

Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence.

There is no excellency without difficulty.

Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.

Competition breeds excellence, including in the GOP race.

Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.

Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.