Quotes About Victory

RESISTANCE IS THE SECRET OF JOY! it says in huge block letters.

LA RESISTENCIA ES EL SECRETO DE LA ALEGRÍA!, dice en grandes letras de molde. Hay un estruendo como si el mundo se quebrara y abriera. Vuelvo adentro. Ya no soy más. Y estoy satisfecha.

I am telling you Discouraged One we will win. And I will show you why. We are the offspring of the ignorantly discarded: we conjure sunrise with our smiles and provoke music out of trash. Who can completely disappear such genius?

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.

History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles.

As their forces broke, the Yorkist cavalrymen raced to the horse park behind their own lines and mounted their steeds to give chase. As they thundered past, the King and Warwick, flushed with victory, yelled, 'Spare the commons! Kill the lords!' Their words went unheeded.

William had now to consolidate his victory and establish himself as king, but first he sent his messenger across the sea to Normandy to tell Matilda that she was now, by the grace of God, queen of England.

Failure is not fatal until we surrender trying again is the key of glorious victory

know winning isn't everything and if all you care about is winning, you'll feel empty—but I haven't won enough to feel empty yet.

O victory forget you're underwear we're free.

The gospel is the story of a good King who has come to reign. In love, he has come to restore his justice, peace and love in a world gone mad. He has battled the enemy and won the decisive victory that will secure the enemy's defeat. And we are on the way to the day when he will reign and everything will resonate with his blazing goodness.

I realized that mine is a war with no end in view; I might as well fight it cheerfully or I would spend my life waiting for some distant victory in order to be happy.

Victory is sweet, but sweeter when your opponent is butt-ass naked in defeat.

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

BATTLE, n. A method of untying with the teeth of a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem—a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.

Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

Joe Abercrombie

Dogman and Dow, Tul and Grim, West and Pike. Six of them, stood in a circle and looking down at two piles of cold earth. Below in the valley, the Union were busy burying their own dead, Dogman had seen it. Hundreds of 'em, in pits for a dozen each. It was a bad day for men, all in all, and a good one for the ground. Always the way, after a battle. Only the ground wins. Shivers

Crowds rarely cheer too loudly for the defeated, no matter how hard they fought, how great their sacrifices, how long the odds. Maidens might wet themselves over cheap and worthless victories, but they don't so much as blush for 'I did my best

Winning made people friendly. Winning too much made them nervous.

Just keep in mind what Rudd Threetrees once told me. Let's us get them killed, and not the other way round.' Wonderful grinned. 'Best damn advice about war I ever heard.

Vick learned long ago that might have is a game with no winners. Few games do have winners, in the end.

Battles may sometimes be won by the brave, but wars are always won by the clever.