Quotes About Victory

la alambrada seguía ininterrumpidamente la línea recta, el símbolo geométrico del propósito humano triunfante.

26. These slay, naming your enemies; & they shall fall before you.

below. After the war had been won by Germany, it was supposed to become a shrine. There is a central circle with provision for an eternal flame in the center

Good Heaven! That is enough to drive away all my pains; I could mount him with thirty balls in my body. On my soul, handsome stirrups!

Man does not steal, he conquers

My present fortune is a compensation for my former misfortune.

Being simply "better than average" is not good enough. You have to be head and shoulders above the crowd to win a minus-sum game.

A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.

Anybody can lose,' cautioned Mr J.L.B. Matekoni. 'You need to remember that every time you win.

But she would not participate in that sort of thing, even if it meant that she lost the election. If you won on the basis of lies and false promises—bribes, really—then your victory would be a hollow one.

I figure I'll win the fight in twenty years or so anyways when I end up with a decent life and their unemployed and living at home.

He will increase in strength and honor by struggling with adversity, which he will convert into prosperity.

Return to the world still more brilliant because of your former sorrows.

that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me

There are men who have suffered and who have not only gone on living, but even built a new fortune on the ruins of their former happiness. From the depths into which their enemies have plunged them, they have risen again with such vigor and glory that they have dominated their former conquerors and cast them down in their turn.

Man does not appear to me to be intended to enjoy felicity so unmixed; happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and kinds, requiring to be overcome ere victory is ours.

In war, the only true victory is peace.

Light always overcomes darkness.

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

It takes more strength to care deeply enough to give your heart than it does to go into battle, and the victory is far greater.

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.

But she had known, better than anyone else, what demons he had faced, had known how hard he had fought to free himself from them. That he had lost the fight in the end made the struggle no less honorable.

Larson would kick my butt! This is good.