Quotes About Victory

I have climbed my Alpine path with years of toil and endeavor.

Well I have written my book. That dream from years ago in that brown school desk has come true with years of toil and struggle. But the realization makes it infinitely sweeter, almost as sweet as the dream.

He aprendido a considerar cada pequeña dificultad como una broma y cada gran dificultad como el adelanto de la victoria.

The Alpine path, so hard, so steep, That leads to heights sublime.

It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.

God as God is feeling … yet shut up, hidden; … Christ is the unclosed, open feeling of the heart. … Christ is the joyful certainty of feeling that its wishes hidden in God have truth and reality, the actual victory over death, over all the powers of the world and Nature, the resurrection no longer merely hoped for, but already accomplished; … the Godhead made visible.

That is the prize: to realize, at the end, that every minute was worth fighting for with every ounce of blood and fire.

let me win, but if i cannot win, let me be a brave at the attempt

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To the Victor, the Potatoes!

In hoc signo vinces

Good guys don't always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries. The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice. And losing has a price.

It was a star, Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won, oh, yes, my children, it won. But it lost its life in the winning.

The first rule of winning is to believe you're capable of winning.

This was the sort of thing that happened to persons of this sort, sensitives, who fought the world and always, in the end, let it win, because there was a lot more taste to defeat than to victory.

Much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of (these) one-sided conflicts. Because the act of facing overwhelming odds, produces greatness and beauty.

We need a better guide to facing giants—and there is no better place to start that journey than with the epic confrontation between David and Goliath three thousand years ago in the Valley of Elah.

When we see the giant, why do we automatically assume the battle is his for the winning?

David fought Goliath not with inferior but (on the contrary) with superior weaponry; and his greatness consisted not in his being willing to go out into battle against someone far stronger than he was. But in his knowing how to exploit a weapon by which a feeble person could seize the advantage and become stronger.

David and Goliath is a book about what happens when ordinary people confront giants.

We would all be sitting in our deck chairs in the backyard, and we would look up, and all of a sudden, the Air House—or maybe even some specific part of the Air House—would be gone. Poof. High-altitude precision bombing. Curtis LeMay won the battle. Haywood Hansell won the war.

We tell rags-to-riches stories because we find something captivating in the idea of a lone hero battling overwhelming odds.

The giant's name was Goliath. The shepherd boy's name was David.

that much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of these kinds of lopsided conflicts, because the act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty. And second, that we consistently get these kinds of conflicts wrong. We misread them. We misinterpret them. Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear