Quotes About Victory

him; they gladly fought for Israel. He extended the glory of his people. Like a giant he put on his breastplate; he girded on his armor of war and waged battles, protecting the host by his sword. He was like a lion in his deeds, like a lion's cub roaring for prey. He searched out and pursued the lawless; he burned those who troubled his people.

Lawless men shrank back for fear of him; all the evildoers were confounded; and deliverance prospered by his hand. He embittered many kings, but he made Jacob glad by his deeds, and his memory is blessed forever. 1 Maccabees

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Oh, easy," said Janine. "It was George Herman. That's it. I won!" "Cheater!" I cried. "You looked! You must have looked!" "I did not," Janine retorted. "I just knew it." "Nerd!" Janine slammed the board shut and walked off in a huff.

Claudia matched Nicky by eating three cupcakes.

Laughing, we all trooped out to celebrate Mallory's victory.

Later on in life, I think Kmart, or whatever competition we were facing, just became Jeff City High School, the team we played for the state championship in 1935. It never occurred to me that I might lose; to me, it was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Whoever submits himself to a super-discipline can expect great triumphs.

The world is filled with broken places. Pick your battles, and go win some.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

AGONISTES  (AGONI'STES)   n.s.[   Gr.]A prize-fighter; one that contends at any public solemnity for a prize. Milton has so stiled his tragedy, because Sampson was called out to divert the Philistines with feats of strength.

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

All Griff had to do was lob a short screen pass over the line into Whitethorn's hands. Or miss him, and get paid a cool two million by the Vista boys. Cowboys lost 14–10.

A knight must throw down his gauntlet to the Devil and fight for right against the servants of sin. Whether you win or lose matters not, only whether you follow the quest. Remember that virtue always prevails.

That would have been too obvious, Matt said. You just said I never choose scissors so you had to know I would choose scissors so I couldn't choose scissors because you'd know it. Hence, the rock. Hence the paper covering your rock. You ask her. Well played my friend, Matt said. Well played.

It was a counterweight, the first I have felt in years. It was a note on a ram's horn, before the walls of Jericho.

The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

That racing of my heart, the flushing of my face I was feeling: it was what happened when you got hurt, true, but also when you got back up and went on.

This life will hit you--hard. In the face! It'll wait for you to get back up, just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you, is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

The victory at Trenton boosted morale among the troops, the Congress, and the people to a degree possibly unwarranted by winning back a town in New Jersey, what with it being a town in New Jersey.

Saratoga was the turning point of the war, the most spectacular patriot victory to date.

but now that I know it's possible for a couple of zebras to outsmart a crocodile, life is starting to look up -Joe

Last guys don't finish nice.

But she's a nut, and nuts win.