Quotes About Victory

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight…

Hij zei alleen: 'De moffen kunnen het niet winnen. Ze zijn zo stom. Even hebben stomme mensen altijd een voordeel, omdat intelligente mensen niet kunnen voorspellen wat ze gaan doen, juist omdat het zo stom is. Met schaken wint een beginner het soms ook ineens van iemand die het al goed kan. Maar dat is maar één keer. En op den duur zullen de geallieerden het zeker winnen van die hysterische varkens.' Ik hoopte dat hij gelijk had.

And then there are the events of more recent history, beginning with the victory over apartheid, an analogy particularly popular in conjunction with divestment. 'Just as apartheid was the moral issue' of the late twentieth century, 'climate change is the moral issue of our time', McKibben has said, alluding to suffering in non-white peripheries of the world, and 'the same kind of tactic is what's necessary to face it'.

You can repudiate DESTINY all you want but in the end it wins.

Alexander (grinning): When Darius was scorching the earth, devastating villages and spoiling provisions, it drove me round the bend, but now indeed what have I to fear, when he gives me a battle to contend?

There I lay, wearing dead people as armor against death.

Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory.

There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever and has finally found it's target. The flag of defeat has been mercifully dropped and, in this action, the loss is not so bad. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory.

Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat...

In the wake of the Communist victory in 1949 and the CCP's subsequent decades of lavish self-praise as heroes of the anti-Japanese resistance, the Nationalist war effort has often been overlooked and denigrated.31

Andrew Gross

Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can't be shared.

I'm in a rich vein of form. Everything I do seems to come off. I'm playing every weekend; it's a dream come true for me.

There's nothing quite like being part of a NASCAR race weekend, and that always will hold true.

Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.

When I was about six, I saw my elder siblings play chess and pestered my mother into teaching me. Very soon, I was beating everyone at home, and they thought it would be good to join a club. So my sister would take me to the Tal chess club on Thursdays and weekends.

'Horse Soldiers' is the untold story of how a small band of U.S. Special Forces soldiers secretly entered Afghanistan in 2001, just five weeks after September 11, saddled up on horses, and rode to an improbable victory against a vastly larger Taliban and Al Qaeda army.

It was a great time here in the States this year, and definitely I feel like I'm playing well again. I gained a lot of confidence in the last couple of weeks, and I just have to, you know, keep going and keep the momentum now.

I won two ITF tournaments in Japan in two weeks. I had to qualify for both of them, which meant that I won 16 matches in 15 days.

As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.

It wasn't my plan to create such a record. All I did was put in the effort to win every match I played and it went on for weeks, months and years until my defeat to Ross Norman in Toulouse in 1986.

I had a good chance when I went to Beijing and the guy who beat me, I'd beaten him three weeks before and he went on to win silver.

I want to win as much as anybody. But what am I supposed to do? Go cry in my apartment for the next two weeks?