Quotes About Victory

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons.

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

Grin" rhymes with "win"; don't waste it.

That which does not break you leaves cause for celebration.

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Quand la volonté et l'imagination sont en lutte, c'est toujours l'imagination qui l'emporte, sans aucune exception

Truth is on the march and nothing can stop it.

Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho

Luck runs out, Blackmane. Aye. But not today, singer.

Victory comes,' Angron smiled, showing a crescent of bloody teeth, 'to the last man standing.'

I can't claim that I came out of it the winner. But I felt a lot like a kid who has finally found the guts to stand up to the schoolyard bully and tell him to take his best shot: bruised and bloody and thinking maybe that it hadn't been such a hot idea, but - what do you know? - still standing.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

Kalka the Mongols scored a great victory, but for some reason they withdrew, only to return with a larger force in 1237. THE EMERGENCE OF THE MONGOL EMPIRE In several respects, the Mongol empire, one of the greatest in world history, remains an enigma to historians. It is hard to explain how one million people succeeded in imposing their rule over one hundred million in a huge area stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Adriatic coast, from China to Hungary.

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart...

When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact.

she found her greatness, at last, found it in her suffering. Once you have greatness, who needs anything else?

When you win, you often lose, that's just the fact.