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Quotes About Victory

He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run.
~ Ernest Hemingway
If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Remember that he who conquers himself is greater than the one who conquers a city.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I don't know. I only think the Austrians will not stop when they have won a victory. It is in defeat that we become Christian. The Austrians are Christians-- except for the Bosnians. I don't mean technically Christian. I mean like Our Lord. He said nothing. We are all gentler now because we are beaten. How would our Lord have been f Peter had rescued him in the Garden?
~ Ernest Hemingway
He took all his pain and what was left of his strength and his long gone pride and he put it against the fish's agony and the fish came over onto his side and swam gently on his side, his bill almost touching the planking of the skiff and started to pass the boat, long, deep, wide, silver and barred with purple and interminable in the water.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The colonel breakfasted with the leisure of a fighter who has been clipped badly, hears four, and knows how to relax truly for five seconds or more.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I have fought for what I believed in for a year now. If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. And you had a lot of luck, he told himself, to have had such a good life. You've had as good a life as any one because of these last days. You do not want to complain when you have been so lucky. I wish there was some way to pass on what I've learned, though. Christ, I was learning fast there at the end.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Pero el hombre no está hecho para la derrota —dijo—. Un hombre puede ser destruido, pero no derrotado.
~ Ernest Hemingway
To win a war, we must kill our enemies.
~ Ernest Hemingway
El hombre no está hecho para la derrota; un hombre puede ser destruido, pero no derrotado.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Mas o homem não foi feito para a derrota — disse em voz alta. — Um homem pode ser destruído, mas nunca derrotado
~ Ernest Hemingway
Now I have done what I can, he thought. Let him begin to circle and let the fight come.
~ Ernest Hemingway
If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. And you had a lot of luck, he told himself, to have had such a good life. You've had just as good a life as grandfather's though not as long. You've had as good a life as any one because of these last days. You do not want to complain when you have been so lucky. I wish there was some way to pass on what I've learned
~ Ernest Hemingway
I had hoped for something. Defeat? No. Something more. There isn't anything more. Except victory. It may be worse.
~ Ernest Hemingway
what is the benefit of this, that we win the war, but lose our goals from the revolution
~ Ernest Hemingway
El hombre no está hecho para la derrota. Al hombre se le puede destruir, pero no derrotar.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Pero el ser humano no está hecho para la derrota —dijo—. Un hombre puede ser destruido, pero no derrotado.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The man isn't born for defeats.He can fall from grace,but he cannot be defeated.
~ Ernest Hemingway
For warfare, a man needs only his mind. But to win, it requires a talent and resources.
~ Ernest Hemingway
We, in games, are not fascinated by death, its nearness and its avoidance. We are fascinated by victory and we replace the avoidance of death by the avoidance of defeat.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Ali ?ovjek nije stvoren za poraze - re?e. - ?ovjek može propasti ali ne može biti poražen.
~ Ernest Hemingway
it in those days.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It was like mentioning one general favourably to another general. You could always mention a general, though, that the general you were talking to had beaten. The general you were talking to would praise the beaten general greatly and go happily into detail on how he had beaten him.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Con ng??i sinh ra không ph?i ?? th?t b?i. Con ng??i có th? b? h?y di?t ch? không th? b? khu?t ph?c.
~ Ernest Hemingway