Quotes About Victory

It was almost over. He was almost there. He had never, not once in his life, felt this powerful.

It is not those who inflict the most but those who suffer the most who will conquer,' MacSwiney declared.

Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?

I won the only duel I ever lost.

Aethe, near my heart. Without vanity, the ribbon. Without duty, the wind. Without blood, the victory.

I (Kvothe) started to say something else, but she (Vashet) put her hand over my mouth. "I've said I understand. Stop fighting after you have won.

I looked down at the board. "The point isn't to win?" I asked. "The point," Bredon said grandly, "is to play a beautiful game.

Increíble -dijo Wilem, maravillado-. El todopoderoso Kvothe, vencido por una mujer.

Good job, Ambrose," Wilem said sarcastically. "You caught him. He stole your fire." One of the onlookers chimed in, "Yeah, make him put it back!

Gané el único duelo que he perdido.

he was often heard to say, 'I won the only duel I ever lost.

I thought of something I learned from reading Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas by Mari Sandoz. Crazy Horse believes that he will be victorious in battle, but if he stops to take spoils from the battlefield, he will be defeated. He tattoos lightning bolts on the ears of his horses so the sight of them will remind him of this as he rides. I tried to apply this lesson to the things at hand, careful not to take spoils that were not rightfully mine.

Crazy Horse believes that he will be victorious in battle, but if he stops to take spoils from the battlefield, he will be defeated. He tattoos lightning bolts on the ears of his horses so the sight of them will remind him of this as he rides. I tried to apply this lesson to the things at hand, careful not to take spoils that were not rightfully mine.

But that was the beauty of this particular game. The moment you lost, you won.

When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules. You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at least you´ve gone down fighting the good fight.

The demands of words are too great for that; one meets with failure too often to exult in the occasional success.

If I can give you the words you need to have, we will have a great victory.

When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules.

one meets with failure too often to exult in the occasional success.

Congratulations, you may already be a winner! Your case has been selected from hundreds of other appellate cases to be heard by the Supreme Court of the United States of America.

A winner never whines.

the essence of what General Douglas MacArthur said is right: All defense and no offense doesn't get you very far. General Patton provides supporting cover when he advised, "Never let the enemy choose the battlefield.

Because your world is not out of control but under God's careful redemptive control, you can have hope even when it looks to you as if darkness is winning the day.

The cross is evidence that in the hands of the Redeemer, moments of apparent defeat become wonderful moments of grace and victory.