Quotes About Victory

We suffer to get well. We surrender to win. We die to live. We give it away to keep it.

As Rilke put it, "When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.

Say I told you so. They're the four most satisfying words in the English language. You could rupture something trying to keep them inside you.

Coffin studied him for a long beat, then said, "Shit, Lincoln. I just lost an argument, didn't I." "I believe you did, yes." "And now you're all proud of yourself.

The contest is a lion fight. So chin up, put your shoulders back, walk proud, strut a little. Don't lick your wounds. Celebrate them. The scars you bear are the sign of a competitor. You're in a lion's fight. Just because you didn't win doesn't mean you don't know how to roar.

He had been defeated by that which he had sought to destroy.

There would have to hover above him, like the stars in a full sky, a vast configuration of images and symbols whose magic and power could lift him up and make him live so intensely that the dread of being black and unequal would be forgotten; that even death would not matter, that it would be a victory

Being hated by the right people was no impediment to success. The unpolished were everywhere the majority.

Die, enemies of Ra! Sekhemet yelled. Perish in agony! She's almost as annoying as you, I told Horus. Impossible, Horus said. No one bests Horus.

Doesn't miss many meals, does he? Zeus muttered. Tyson, for your bravery in the war, and for leading the Cyclopes, you are appointed a general I. The armies of Olympus. You shall henceforth lead you breathren into war whenever required by the gods. And you shall have a new...um...what kind of weapon would you like? A sword? An axe? Stick! Tyson said, showing his broken club. Very well, Zeus said. We will grant you a new, er, stick. The best stick that may be found. Hooray!

Race you to the road? I said. You are so going to lose. She (Annabeth) took off down Half-Blood Hill and I sprinted after her. For once, I didn't look back.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Tyson pounding the Earthborn into the ground like a game of whack-a-mole. Ella was fluttering above him, dodging missiles and calling out advice: The groin. The Earthborn's groin is sensitive. SMASH! Good. Yes. Tyson found its groin.

I survive all those battles, she growled, and I get defeated by a stupid chunk of rock!

That's it, cupcake. You're going down.

Met them. Killed them. Got the T-shirt.

Great victory requires great risk. -Hera

Eat bitter, taste sweet

Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.

YEAH! WHO DIED? WHO CAME BACK? WHO'S YOUR FREAKIN' SUPERSIZED McSHIZZLE NOW, BABY? WOOOOOOOO!

One basketball to rule them all," Leo muttered.

All invincible and stuff

One basketball to rule them all.

Rowww!" Bast wailed. The wrecking ball rolled straight over her, but she didn't appear hurt. She leaped off and pounced aain. Her knives sliced through the metal like wet clay. Within seconds, the wrecking ball was reduced to a mound of scraps. Bast sheathed her blades. "Safe now." "You saved us from a metal ball," Sadie said. "You never know," Bast said. "It could've been hostile.

Normally, as long as I'm telling him what to do, he wins in a fight.