Quotes About Victory

In all, the crew of the St Laurent picked up and took to safety over eight hundred survivors, an astonishing feat almost without parallel in the lifesaving annals of the sea, almost enough to make one forget, if even only for a moment, the barbed wire and the thousand men who died. Almost, but not quite.

Daughter of the rock and the gray sea you fill all hearts with triumph, tortoise shell of the sea.

When the liberal teaching became dominant, as is the case with most victorious causes, good arguments became less necessary; and the original good arguments, which were difficult, were replaced by plausible simplificationsor by nothing. The history of liberal thought since Locke and Smith has been one of almost unbroken decline in philosophic substance.

Women are to be conquered, subdued, the way a mountaineer conquers a peak or a matador slays a bull.

Dios mío, os doy gracias por haberme permitido salir victorioso de la lucha que acabo de sostener contra el mal; haced que esta victoria me dé fuerza para resistir las nuevas tentaciones. Y a vos, mi ángel guardián, os doy las gracias por la asistencia que me habéis dado. Que mi sumisión a vuestros consejos me haga digno de continuar en vuestra protección.

pois é preciso mais coragem para vencer a si mesmo do que para vencer aos outros.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on."23

Allison Gappa Bottke

If we always take the path of least resistance, if we embrace inertia, if we never leap, if we never accept accountability for our choices, how can we find any triumph in our victories or any remorse in our losses?

Now I know that, from this point on, we'll be the ones doing the chasing. And Iike it.

I don't play any game that I can't win.

La Historia con mayúscula la escriben siempre los vencedores, pero su versión no tiene por qué ser eterna. Algunos países europeos, como Polonia o Hungría, han sabido integrar el fracaso de sus luchadores por la libertad en el patrimonio de su orgullo nacional, asumiendo que ciertas derrotas, lejos de implicar deshonor, pueden ser más honrosas que muchas victorias.

porque un fracaso compartido une más que una victoria común.

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke winning it twice proves you are the best.

O Lord! If you give us victory, I shall see that no enemy warrior is left alive until their river runs with their blood!

It seemed that some part of my battling soul remained my own. For slowly, as if I was wading through soft, wet, sucking sand, I began to fight back. I threw myself against the fear, forcing it into submission. And as a small amount of daylight cleared amid the blackness, I recognized this for what it was. I'd just been attacked. And instantly reason returned.

It means you got your glow on." He smiled, hovering right alongside me. "It means you're on your way.

First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.

The late brilliant actions in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas divided and weakened the enemy on the Rappahannock, and the auspicious moment seems to have arrived to strike a great and mortal blow at the Rebellion, and to gain that decisive victory which is due to the country.

After having polio, my right leg was weaker, so I wasn't great at football. But I swam lots and even did long-distance running.

Sometimes, when we play against weaker teams, everyone says, 'Oh, you won because you played weaker teams.'

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

I think that our weakness is understanding that when we go to war, we go to war to win.