Quotes About Victory

There are always risks in battle. It's a dangerous business. The trick is to take the right ones.' [said Halt]. 'How do you know which are the right ones?' Shigeru asked. Halt glanced at his two younger companions. They grinned and answered in chorus, 'You wait and see if you win.

Once you best a man, never gloat. Be generous and find something in his actions to praise. He won't enjoy being bested, but he'll make a good face of it. Show him you appreciate it. Praise can win you a friend. Gloating will only ever make enemies.

You're a dead man, Arratay," Jerrel said through clenched teeth. Halt smiled. "That's been said before. Yet here I am.

Will: I'm looking for fighting men. I plan to sack a castle, and I hear you people are rather good at that.

It was ten against ten. So, as Svengal later recounted, it was no contest. He had the enemy outnumbered three to one.

Once you best a man, never gloat. Be generous and find something in his actions to praise. He won't enjoy being bested, but he'll make a good face of it. Show him you appreciate it. Praise can win you a friend. Gloating will only ever make enemies.

True courage, she believed, consisted of facing up to one's fears and defeating them.

battle tactics—although the latter were relatively simple in the Skandian world, usually consisting of a headlong charge in response to the command, "Let's get 'em!

If you worry that you'll lose, you probably will.

Then he gave the order he'd always wanted to issue. "Let's get 'em, boys!

Ach, als ik maar niet te dicht bij hem kom, als ik hem maar niet tegen mijn schild laat meppen, als ik maar niet tegen een stormram aanloop en zijn aanvallen niet probeer te pareren met mijn zwaard. Al met al een fluitje van een cent, als ik dat zo hoor. Help me eens met die armstukken, Will. Dan ga ik naar buiten om hem af te maken. - Arnaut

O, ze zullen verslagen worden, wees maar niet bang. Het zal een heftige en bloederige strijd worden, maar de Temujai zullen zeker winnen. - Halt, over de Skandiërs

Delia felt a small thrill of triumph as the smile on Alyss's face faded slightly, and for a moment she was tempted to accept. But she realized almost immediately that this small triumph was likely to be the only one she would enjoy that evening.

Goed gedaan, Hal,' zei hij slechts. 'Ik weet hoeveel dit je heeft gekost.

You wait till it's over and see who's won," he said. "Then you know those were the right risks to take.

But first, there's the small matter of beating the Temujai. Let's get to work.

If you believe that," he said grimly, "then you have never seen Skandians fight, my friend.

Diamond cut diamond.

Religion requires action, labour, diligence; for it does not consist in airy, empty notions and speculations of the head but in the exercise of the mind and heart. Habits must be exerted; grace, improved. Heaven (that is, all uphill) must be strived for and gotten, as it were, by force and victory.

Mortals cannot win war with what is eternal.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

Battles are won when warriors make the decisions not to lose.

John Gilstrap

Speed and simplicity: these are the keywords to overcome the enemy.