Quotes About Victory

nothing can defeat you unless you defeat yourself.

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.

No one can defeat you, unless you defeat yourself. .

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Odiaba cada minuto de entrenamiento, pero no paraba de repetirme: «No renuncies, sufre ahora y vive el resto de tu vida como un campeón». MUHAMMAD ALI

El que suda más en la práctica, sangra menos en la guerra».

Estoy convencido de que en este día somos dueños de nuestro destino, que la tarea que se nos ha impuesto no es superior a nuestras fuerzas, que sus acometidas no están por encima de lo que puedo soportar. Mientras tengamos fe en nuestra causa y una indeclinable voluntad de vencer, la victoria estará a nuestro alcance. WINSTON CHURCHILL

The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours." —Ayn Rand

Stevens, who knew that mouth could do more thana rgue? You're a true blue friend, a red-hot lady and all that other good yearbook shit. You've got a big heart and I've got an even bigger...you know. So we're both winners. KG

You can take him, right? he asks a couple minutes later. I go, Are you kidding? You can't just fight Blade, you have to fight his gang, too. You mean you couldn't take him and I was giving him lip?

You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat.

You are the only ones who can appreciate my triumph.

No mida kuradit! Lahing ei kuulu alati tugevatele ja võitma kipuvad meeldivad tüübid, sest just nemad kirjutavad pärast mälestusi.

The blow fell upon Jasra's jaw, and I barely managed to free Frakir in time to keep from being dragged backward with her into Luke's waiting arms.

The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake

What is a hero? The one who has the last word.

and perhaps tomorrow may see the end of these difficulties. Difficulties are just things to overcome after all."44

Walt Whitman, who ardently followed the Overland Campaign: "When did [Grant] ever turn back? He was not that sort; he could no more turn back than time! . . . Grant was one of the inevitables; he always arrived; he was invincible as a law: he never bragged—often seemed about to be defeated when he was in fact on the eve of a tremendous victory

Thus, Hamilton triumphed posthumously over Burr, converting the latter's victory at Weehawken into his political coup de grâce. Burr's reputation perished along with Hamilton, exactly as Hamilton had anticipated.

When someone asked if he had ever doubted the North's final victory, he shot back, "Never for a moment." He quoted Seward, saying "that there was always just enough virtue in this republic to save it; sometimes none to spare, but still enough to meet the emergency, and he agreed with Mr. Seward in this view.

For Hamilton, the Jay Treaty victory represented the culmination of his work with Washington. By settling all outstanding issues left over from the Revolution, the treaty removed the last impediments to improved relations with England and promised sustained prosperity.

Seven months after Grant's death, Julia received a whopping $200,000 check from Twain and $450,000 in the end—an astonishing sum for book royalties at the time. No previous book had ever sold so many copies in such a short period of time, and it rivaled that other literary sensation of the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Clearly Grant had emerged victorious in his last uphill battle.

May we not justly say . . . that the liberty which Mr. Lincoln declared with his pen General Grant made effectual with his sword—by his skill in leading the Union armies to final victory?

John Adams summed up the case succinctly: "In general, our generals have been outgeneralled.