Quotes About Victory

Who cares whether the heroine wins if there wasn't any battle?

But easy victories pall after a while. If one always wins, perhaps one is attempting only what is well within one's capabilities—and there lies a kind of death, don't you think? That which does not grow may well be showing the first signs of atrophy.

Nothing worth having was gained without courage.

To be beaten was one thing, to surrender was another—and intolerable.

You do not need to believe evil, only to use its methods. You will get accustomed to them, until eventually they are not your last choice, but your first. For awhile, you can justify it to yourself, and then eventually you will not bother. You have forgotten what you are fighting for; now winning is the only objective! And the more you win, the more you justify it, until the whole idea of right and wrong disappears and only winning matters.

Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.

You are too strong for this rain and too strong for this sorrow.

Get thee behind me, tragedy.

Your life will be filled with good things, for the demons are slain; and you will inherit Eden

You'll sing a song of victory eternally, though there is none to be had.

Vengarse es el objetivo de aquellos que se sienten de algún modo derrotados. Yo no estaba vencido, me dije. Y siempre es mucho mas interesante pensar en la victoria que en la venganza.

To witness the degree to which victorious nations simplified and cheapened the narratives of their rivals?

Red grabbed the receiver at the very same instant that Abby flung herself across him to grab it herself. He had it first, but there was a little tussle and somehow she was the one who ended up with it.

At fist he didn't say anything more, and we had a little staring contest there in the darkness. but I liked staring at him, and I won.

He wanted to show the world that nobody can win against him, no matter what cards they hold. Proving that he could throw me away was just as important as taking the ruins.

However it is defined, freedom is due, in part, to the fact that powerful nations do not always win wars and powerful men do not always win fights.

It's war that makes generals

In a competitive world, adversity is your ally. The harder it gets, the better chance you have of insulating yourself from the competition. If that adversity also causes you to quit, though, it's all for nothing.

If I fail more times than you, I win.

Or win by being faster

Está claro que las ideas que se difunden triunfan; pero las ideas que no llegan a expresarse siempre fracasan.

Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.

Every man has to die. Choosing oblivion is the only way of triumphing over this.

By the time I got to the bottom, I understood what Guthrie ment when he shouted LIBERO! It was a celebration of being alive.