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Quotes About Victory

Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
~ Marquis de Lafayette
The wolves were circling, wary of the might and presence of the kingly beasts who dared to challenge possession of the crown and so far, the lions had proved to be invincible. But should they drop their guard for an instant, or should the scavengers discover the quixotic virtue of their armor, all of the honor, pride, and passion in the world would not save them. It would, instead, be the cause of their ultimate downfall.
~ Unknown
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.
~ Martha Gellhorn
Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.
~ Martha Gellhorn
Controlling others—winning—is more compelling than anything (or anyone) else.
~ Martha Stout
This is how we fight: throw ourselves at each other and see whose parts give out first.
~ Martha Wells
I'd won the argument, yay me, so I left.
~ Martha Wells
TargetControlSystem hit me with everything it had. It told me I would never take the ship. I told it. "Okay you keep the ship. I'll take the planet.
~ Martha Wells
one bicycle, but even if we'd had another, I think
~ Unknown
and the attached
~ Unknown
If you cannot get across it, you must get across it, nevertheless.
~ Martin Buber
Even if you cannot achieve much in the way of fitness, every little [bit] helps. The other guy might be getting tired too. If he has five seconds' worth of fight left in him and you have 10, you will win.
~ Unknown
Martin Dugard
~ Unknown
Indian Corps and the 4th Corps will push through the barrage of fire regardless of loss, using reserves if required.
~ Martin Gilbert
Prize fighters can sometimes read and write when they start — but they can't when they finish.
~ Martin H. Fischer
The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
~ Martin Luther
A mighty fortress is our God,A bulwark never failing.Our helper He amid the floodOf mortal ills prevailing.
~ Martin Luther
And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.
~ Martin Luther
Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort of tempest and deluge of oratory-which nevertheless falls with the greater force on your own head, while my ark rides aloft in safety?
~ Martin Luther
If you try to deal with sin in your conscience, let it remain there, and continue to look at it in your heart, your sins will become too strong for you. They will seem to live forever. But when you think of your sins as being on Christ and boldly believe that he conquered them through his resurrection, then they are dead and gone. Sin can't remain on Christ. His resurrection swallowed up sin.
~ Martin Luther
I will say something still easier. Take a single flea or louse-since you tempt and mock our God with this talk about curing a lame horse-and if, after combining all the powers and concentrating all the efforts both of your good and all your supporters, you succeed in killing it in the name of free choice, you shall be victorious, your case shall be established, and we too will come at once and worship that god of yours, that wonderful killer of the louse.
~ Martin Luther
Do not be discouraged by people to whom Christ is just a joke and a laughingstock...they live on, certain of everything and untroubled by the devil. Why should he bother them? They already belong to him. You and I are the ones he would like to seize. Now how will he do that? He will continue attacking you with small things until he gets to your substance. But resist him. He who is with us is greater than he who is in the world.
~ Martin Luther
But the truth will win out.
~ Martin Luther
Almighty God, who through the death of Your Son has destroyed sin and death, and by His resurrection has restored innocence and everlasting life, that we may be delivered from the dominion of the devil, and our mortal bodies raised up from the dead: grant that I may confidently and wholeheartedly believe this, and, finally, with Your saints, share in the joyful resurrection of the just; through the same Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord. Amen.
~ Martin Luther