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Quotes About Victory

You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Where did we go right?
~ Mel Brooks
Evil will always triumph because good is dumb" - Dark Helmet
~ Mel Brooks
I was at my best when I was backed into a corner. Like a cornered rat I had to somehow jump out of it. I would never surrender. Carl knew he would never get the same answer twice, and I loved to surprise him. Carl: Who is the favorite of all your girlfriends of all time? Mel: Shirley. Carl: What was so special about Shirley? Mel: Her friend Leila. Carl hit the floor.
~ Mel Brooks
Anytime I could make Carl laugh, I knew I had a winner.
~ Mel Brooks
Even when the battle is long and the path is steep, a true warrior does not give up. If each one of us does not step forward to claim our rights, we are doomed to an eternal wait in hopes those who would usurp them will become benevolent. The Bible says, WATCH, FIGHT, and PRAY." * * * Although
~ Unknown
We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.
~ Melina Marchetta
The two horsewomen of the apocalypse still win, despite their dwindling numbers.
~ Melina Marchetta
We'll kill each other, Priestling." "I'll win most arguments, but you'll get used to it.
~ Melina Marchetta
Monsters always make more trouble before they die.
~ Melinda Gebbie
I didn't drown. I didn't break.
~ Melissa Marr
I survived. Isn't that what matters?
~ Melissa Marr
We shall fight on the beaches," said Churchill in 1940, "we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." Only "surrender" is not Old English. That, in itself, might be significant.
~ Melvyn Bragg
A great day in the annals of two ancient nations, Egypt and Israel, whose sons met in battle five times, fighting and falling…. It is thanks to our fallen heroes that we could have reached this day.
~ Menachem Begin
Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.
~ Menachem Begin
This was the virtue of Israel, to have "contended with Elokim and with men" and to have prevailed over their respective concealments of G-d. They are no longer barriers to him; indeed they assent to his blessings. He not only won his struggle with the angel (the guardian angel of Esau) but the angel himself blessed him. This is the achievement of which the Proverbs speak: "He makes even his enemies be at peace with him."14
~ Unknown
The man who runs may fight again.
~ Menander
Oscar Wilde summoned his last measure of strength to say, "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go.
~ Unknown
Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
~ Mercedes Lackey
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.
~ Mercy Otis Warren
You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.
~ Merton Miller
George put his hand on top of Beatrice's and felt the warmth of both the woman and her hound pulsing through his fingers. "Just because your father does not see your victory does not mean that it is none," he said softly.
~ Unknown
Success breeds success.
~ Mia Hamm
You don't just want to beat a team. You want to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see your face again.
~ Mia Hamm