Quotes About Victory

It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled," he argued. "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again . . . who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

Browncoats, look up to the skies! Browncoats, hail the dawn! Today will see tyranny Dying with the morn. "Browncoats, are you weary? Browncoats, rise and sing! Your time has come, your war is won. Victory takes wing.

When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there's always a chance that the dancing bear will win.

All illustrate the "theory of courage," which Tolkien called "the great contribution of early Northern literature," meaning both Icelandic and Old English literature. It is a "creed of unyielding will": The heroes refuse to give up even when they know the monsters—evil—will win. For that is the big difference between Snorri's Ragnarok and the Christian Doomsday. Odin and the human army of Valhalla do not win.

That our path was hard does not mean it was not also right, nor that it is not paved with blessings.

I will admit that "just Jane" seems to gain insight from hard times. I wish to ask the Almighty about this, for why do we learn more from struggles than victories?

The Galileo saga is typically told as a conflict between science and religion. But in reality it was a conflict among Christians over the correct philosophy of nature. Was it Aristotle's quality or Galileo's quantity? Galileo's victory was the triumph of the idea that the nature is constructed on a mathematical blueprint.

The survivor gets to tell the story.

Liberal hand-wringing over the electoral victory of the far-right in Italy will not extend to its core ideology: anti-migration. The EU will continue to support Italy's abandonment and terrorizing of people on the move. Anti-migrant politics truly is the fascist foot in the door.

I am alive,' I whispered to him. 'I am alive.

Spirit fight do not require population to conquer.

Sometimes it's good to go to war, just to know you can

VICTRIX CAVSA DIIS PLACVIT SED VICTA PVELLIS

The Rider A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.

And when you've fought to earn your place amongst the living, you get to enjoy the spoils," he grimaces. "So I drink more and I fuck more. Because unlike some normal asshole in a normal tie sitting behind his normal computer, I know what lurks in the dark.

My life may be dark and bloody and messy, but I'm alive because I earned it. I'm alive because I fought,

I dare because people like you walk around like you own the world, when really, you spend your entire pitiful life stacking up your lopsided tower of toy blocks, hoping no one bigger and stronger comes along to knock it down. But me? I'm bigger. I'm stronger. And I take a very distinct pleasure in stomping your world to fucking smithereens.

Always carry champagne! In victory You deserve it & in defeat You need it!

In war, the moral is to the physical as ten to one.

Gentlemen. If you're going to take Vienna, take it.

The principles of war are the same as those of a siege. Fire must be concentrated on one point, and as soon as the breach is made, the equilibrium is broken and the rest is nothing.

The Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.

This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten and goes on fighting.

To have ultimate victory, you must be ruthless.