Quotes About Victory

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

Communism existed once, during two 45 minute half-times, when Honved, from Budapest, won over England by 6-3. The English played individually, and the Hungarians, collectively.

Encore faut-il se garder de crier trop tôt victoire lorsqu'on voit la volonté de certains mouvements évangéliques américains d'en découdre à tout prix avec l'islam… Pas tout à fait morte encore l'idée médiévale de la croisade !

Toward the urn the three children raced in a dead heat, Jane still shouting . FOR CHURCHILL, NELSON, AND PRINCE WILLIAM!

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People find a way through just about anything.

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pek küstahca konu?tunuz. Zafer Tanr?'n?n onu bah?etti?i ki?inin olacakt?r." Noyan Baycu

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

Surrender is victory.

Life is getting what you want, and I'm better at life than you are.

love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah.

commander may be forgiven for being defeated, but never for being surprised.

When you're in a race car, you're going through so many different emotions throughout that race.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. — Seneca

The desire to compete and win is part of what motivates great athletes to play their best. But the negative thought (fear) of losing also drives them to pursue victory. The same is true concerning the bema. Paul saw himself as a competitor, determined to win. How awesome then must our God be that when we see Him, we will either desperately wish or jubilantly celebrate that our life had been devoted to Him?

It was said that trials were what made the victory so sweet, but Herbert never bought that. From where he sat, he'd settle for having the victories come a little easier now and then. . . .

It's so rarely about military genius, who the greater tactician might be, who sat higher in his class at West Point. It's about mistakes, some of them unavoidable, some of them purely stupid. My job is to make fewer mistakes than the enemy

I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting—its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands and fathers….Tis only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded or lacerated…that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.

Colonel, General Sheridan will be big enough for all of us before this is through.

It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.

It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.

Slowly, a gentle, quiet, personal victory of the spirit grows out of her fear and doubt.

The freedom to fail is preserved, as a sort of supreme law, which guarantees escape at every fresh juncture. One is inclined to call this the freedom of the weak person who seeks salvation in defeat. His true uniqueness, his special relation to power, is expressed in the prohibition of victory. All calculations originate and end in impotence.