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Quotes About Victory

And the fever called "Living"Is conquered at last.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Some forms of success are indistinguishable from panic.
~ Edgar Degas
As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and, raising his eyes to the full moon, threw back his fierce young head and voiced the wild and terrible cry of his people.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
In July, Lin Piao, China's Minister of Defense, publishes a declaration, "Long Live the Victory of the People's War!" which calls upon the underdeveloped nations, likened to the "rural areas of the world," to join forces against American and Western imperialism, the "cities of the world.
~ Edgar Snow
The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
He was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the consciousness of being matched against a great adversary suffices and who can dispense with success. Life for him was an adventure, perilous indeed, but men are not made for safe havens. The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory.
~ Edith Hamilton
When in doubt, win the trick.
~ Edmond Hoyle
Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.
~ Edmund Spenser
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse,And every conqueror creates a muse.
~ Edmund Waller
The room was in almost comic disorder. It was a room in which a struggle has taken place between its occupant and that burning-eyed hag, Sleeplessness. The hag, it was plain, had won.
~ Edna Ferber
Ningún amor nos garantiza la victoria, ni los campeonatos. Si vienen, que vengan. Felices de nosotros. Pero el fútbol no se trata de ganar. Porque por algo se parece tanto a vivir, a fin de cuentas.
~ Eduardo Sacheri
Llora por lo que ha perdido, mientras observa esa foto que rememora una tarde de victoria. Y llora, tal vez, por todas las veces que le ha tocado perder. Uno nunca llora por una sola cosa, cada vez que llora.
~ Eduardo Sacheri
Y queda en mí el mandato inexorable que dictan las fidelidades eternas. Cuando Independiente gana un campeonato —al fin y al cabo, Dios y sus milagros evidentemente existen— lo primero que hago, en la cancha o en mi casa, es levantar los brazos y los ojos hacia el cielo, abrazándolo a mi viejo a través de todos los rigores del destino, y por encima de todas las traiciones de la muerte.
~ Eduardo Sacheri
Let the boy win his spurs.
~ Edward (III)
I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.
~ Edward Abbey
Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.
~ Edward Abbey
Brilliant students and brilliant innovators create their own victories by practicing habits of thinking that inevitably carry them step-by-step to works of greatness
~ Edward B. Burger
I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. —Michael Jordan
~ Edward B. Burger
The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation.
~ Edward Chapin
Marriage is a generosity contest, and she won.
~ Edward Docx
Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace, or after ages of conflict and war; but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.
~ Edward Everett
Today we were unlucky. But remember, we have only to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always.
~ Anonymous
You've come a long way baby.
~ Anonymous
I was a seven-stone weakling.
~ Anonymous