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Quotes About Victory

Onward, Christian soldiers,Marching as to war,With the Cross of JesusGoing on before!
~ Sabine Baring-Gould
Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan.
~ Sachin Tendulkar
And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.
~ Sachin Tendulkar
But eventually it is a game of cricket.
~ Sachin Tendulkar
The victory of the Revolution's will and yours over the stooge pocket is regarded as a victory for the world revolution everywhere, just as the victory of the revolutionaries in South East Asia was a victory of revolutionaries everywhere.
~ Saddam Hussein
That was a bad scene, brother. The sickness and madness of those days—I'm glad to be free of them.
~ Malcolm X
Pork chop, pork chop, Greazy, greazy, We'ze gonna beat you, Easy, easy. Corn bread, Jeri Curl, Bar-bee-cue, We'ze gonna beat the whoopy outta you!
~ Marc Acito
The Duelists.
~ Marc MacYoung
It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. For what purpose? you may say. Why, that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat. In my opinion no man has had a more profitable difficulty than you have had, if you choose to make use of it as an athlete would deal with a young antagonist.
~ Marcus Aurelius
remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.
~ Marcus Aurelius
It is a disgrace for the soul to be the first to succumb in that life in which the body does not succumb.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The terrible truth is that our world has never established peace through victory. Victory establishes not peace, but lull. Thereafter, violence returns once again, and always worse than before. And it is that escalator violence that then endangers our world.
~ Marcus J. Borg
We face a similar choice each Christmas, and so each Advent is a time of repentance for the past and change for the future. Do we think that peace on earth comes from Caesar or Christ? Do we think it comes through violent victory or nonviolent justice? Advent, like Lent, is about a choice of how to live personally and individually, nationally and internationally.
~ Marcus J. Borg
But Easter means that the powers of this world do not have the last word.
~ Marcus J. Borg
The Roman vision incarnated in the divine Augustus was peace through victory. The Christian vision incarnated in the divine Jesus was peace through justice. It is those alternatives that are at stake behind all the titles and countertitles, the claims and counterclaims.
~ Marcus J. Borg
To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
No matter how many obstacles may block your path, or how dark the way, if you look up, think up, and struggle up, you can't help succeeding. Whatever you do for a living, whatever fortune or misfortune, hold the victorious attitude and push ahead.
~ Marden Orison Swett
Show the world that you respect yourself, that you believe in yourself, and that no matter how hard the way, you are marching on to victory. Show by your expression that you can think and plan for yourself, that you have a forceful mentality.
~ Marden Orison Swett
To retain self-control, mental poise, equanimity, under all provocations, great or small, is an indication of a fine strong character. It is a triumph of strength over weakness, of greatness over littleness. The habit of conquering ourselves is the habit of victory; it strengthens all the faculties.
~ Marden Orison Swett
Lose your temper and you lose the fight.
~ Margaret Atwood
Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.
~ Margaret Atwood
Human beings- I've observed- are hot-wired for score keeping, and since they like to win, they're always going one better than the other fellow.
~ Margaret Atwood
Each of the five tribes claims to have been the victorious attacker. Each recalls the slaughter with relish. Each believes it was ordained by their own god as righteous vengeance, because of the unholy practices carried on in the city. Evil must be cleansed with blood, they say. On that day the blood ran like water, so afterwards it must have been very clean.
~ Margaret Atwood