Quotes About Victory

Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.

It was like when Isabel managed not to marry the guy with the cotton mills, and it was her first taste of victory—because "she had done what she preferred.

Had it not been for empty, there would have been nothing to fill. Nothing to struggle with, strive for or dream. Although fulfillment is our ending destiny, it's the getting there that builds character. That puts muscle in faith, and sweats out victory. Vigilance is the empty, that pushes all our nothings into something.

When hunting a Maltese Falcon, catch it, but don't scratch it!

Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go!

We shall go on and we shall fight it out, here or elsewhere, and if this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.

When you fail, you disgrace yourself and others. When you succeed, be proud and others will be proud for you.

When the battle is long and hard the victory is even sweeter

Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Mankind has conceived history as a series of battles; hitherto it has considered fighting as the main thing in life.

cuanto mayor es la dificultad, mayor es la satisfacción al superarla

Ne feledjék el – mondta [Patton] nekik [a katonáinak] egy alkalommal –, soha egyetlen fattyú sem nyert háborút azzal, hogy meghalt a hazájáért. Csak úgy gyÅ'znek, ha elérik, hogy a másik rohadék haljon meg az Å' hazájáért!

In defeat, malice. In victory, revenge

A person who has lost to the strong competitors and/or by fair means in a contest is still a winner even if he has no supporter; One who has won to the weak contestants and/or by foul methods in a competition is yet a loser even if he has many followers.

Game plan is bigger than the match plan only in that sport where a lot of money is involved.

Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law fight like snake and mongoose, no one knows who is who actually and none can perhaps ever predict who will win eventually.

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.

Nothing can defeat you, if you make up your mind to fight and nothing can save you, if you have accepted defeat.

Today is a good day to tackle a fear and make yourself proud.

Heart, my heart, so battered with misfortune far beyond your strength, up, and face the men who hate us. Bare your chest to the assault of the enemy, and fight them off. Stand fast among the beamlike spears. Give no ground; and if you beat them, do not brag in open show, nor, if they beat you, run home and lie down on your bed and cry. Keep some measure in the joy you take in luck, and the degree you give way to sorrow. All our life is up-and-down like this.

If you expect a kick in the balls and you get a slap in the face, it's a victory.

It's the rough side of the mountain that's the easiest to climb; the smooth side doesn't have anything for you to hang on to.