Quotes About Victory

La défaite est quelquefois une opportunité, les Arabes n'ont pas su la saisir. La victoire est quelquefois un piège, les Israéliens n'ont pas su l'éviter.

Êtes-vous prêts à considérer que la mort est votre seule ennemie ? Oui, la mort, la mort seule. Pas les puissances rivales, pas les autres peuples, pas les autres races. Pas nous. Uniquement la mort. Le seul ennemi qui mérite d'être combattu, pourchassé, vaincu.

Surveying the travails of the thirtieth president, some writers have suggested that those personal defeats are the essence of the Coolidge story. They err. Coolidge's is not a story of "Yes, but." It is a story of "But yes." For at every stage, Coolidge did push forward, and so triumph.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Success is sweeter and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.

I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.

Amy Goldman Koss

Seriously, Jackson, you dropped a monster on our lap, and then a leviathan jumped out of the toilet and ate it." Jackson chuckled a little at the image. "Well, it was a monster, Mira. Let's hope the leviathan wins.

Chase and Scott had done rock/scissors/paper/lizard/Spock to get the front. Chase had won with Spock to crush Scott's scissors.)

was daylight at the end of the tunnel. A long, lifetime of a tunnel, into the best, most glorious day.

You do it before I'm dead, I'll kill myself in front of you," I said, meaning it. Sonny nodded. "I'll send some feelers out. We're not goin' through this for chickenshit, Ace. We're gonna fuckin' win big.

And I realized that it's not whether you beat God—it's what you have when the fight's over.

But lo (loo?) and behold, it was. Malcolm pushed Owen all the way to the far wall.

Denise, the Nazi soldiers in those trucks do not suspect they're about to be outfoxed by two girls." In the stillness before we spring back itno action, Denise looks to me, grinning like mad. She quotes a line from King Kong, one of my favorite movies I watched with Tom. "'Oh no. It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.

Amigo, yo bien sé lo que hacen los hombres con los vencidos". Y no era más que una frase. Nada más. ¿Qué sé yo de lo que hacen los hombres con los vencidos…? ¿Quiénes son, al fin y al cabo, los vencidos? ¿Me creí acaso, entonces, vencido? No: no lo pensé suiquiera. Yo mantenía mi esperanza.

I'm happy for all who reached for the stars happily and successfully.

Play to win because almost doesn't cut it.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

No, let us not conquer the heavens. It is enough to have the power to do so. War engenders war, and victory defeat. God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot!?

You cry, "give us war!" You are visionaries. When will you become thinkers? The thinkers do not look for power and strength from any of the dreams that constitute military art: tactics, strategies, fortifications, artillery and all that rubbish. They do no believe in war, which is a fantasy; they believe in chemistry, which is a science. They know the way to put victory into an algebraic formula.

Je ne nie pas que l'amour ait maille à partir avec la vie. Je dis qu'il doit vaincre et pour cela s'être élevé à une telle conscience poétique de lui-même que tout ce qu'il rencontre nécessairement d'hostile se fonde au foyer de sa propre gloire.

You have not come back from hell with empty hands.

L'obstacle nous fait grands.