Quotes About Victory

There was a time when I thought I could change everything. I have learned the hard way that we only have so much strength: better to use it for fights where we stand a chance of winning.

That you should choose your battles wisely. You cannot fight everything and win. Sometimes the price of losing is beyond what you can afford to pay, but that applies to winning as well.

Puede que obtengamos una victoria, pero los ángeles caídos no lo van a admitir jamás. De modo que tendremos que reclamar esa victoria incluso después de haberla ganado. Tenemos que afirmar que nos pertenece y que nadie nos la puede arrebatar.

Es una gran liberación el saber que uno tiene la determinación total de que nada va a arrebatarle el triunfo, porque Dios así lo ha querido.

Ascensión yo soy la luz de la Ascensión fluye libre la victoria aquí, todo lo Bueno ganado al fin por toda la eternidad. yo soy Luz, desvanecido todo peso en el aire ahora me elevo; con el pleno poder de Dios en el cielo mi canto de alabanza a todos expreso. ¡Salve! yo soy el Cristo Viviente, un ser de amor por siempre. ¡Ascendido ahora con el Poder de Dios yo soy un sol resplandeciente!

To some people fighting in itself is enjoyable, and she supposed that the fighters of this world can always get some sort of a kick out of things.

There are no heroes on the battlefield, my lady; there are only survivors.

He who angers you conquers you.

Nothing inspires motivation more than success.

He had long been indifferent to which side won; he wished only that one or the other would do so decisively while he was still alive.

The Romans learned what European armies were to discover hundreds of years later: that the best-trained and best-equipped fighting force in the world might come to grief against partisans fighting on their own territory and for a cause for which they would willingly sacrifice themselves and their families.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.

peace without victory." He said that "victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished." Such a peace would only breed shame and resentment

Theodore Roosevelt was less impressed. He wrote that "peace without victory is the natural ideal of the man who is too proud to fight"—a sideways shot at Wilson's manhood and his naïveté. Roosevelt also reminded Americans that in 1776 it was the Tories, the loyalists to Britain, who had preached "peace without victory," and likewise the Copperheads, or sympathizers with the slave-owning South, who preached the same during the Civil War.

peace without victory for the right; a peace designed to let wrong triumph; a peace championed in neutral countries by the apostles of timidity and greed.

The Sermon on the Mount, the third-century Christian Apologist Irenaeus told listeners, takes over where Plato's dialogues left off. Every Christian would realize the elusive goal that Plotinus was seeking in vain: the joyful reunion of the soul with God. He or she could confidently say with Paul, "O Death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" and hear the answer echo all the way back to Socrates's prison cell.

By training his soldiers to lunge with their bayonets not at the charging Highlander in front of them, but at the one to their right as he raised his arm to strike and thus exposed himself to a lethal thrust, Cumberland now had the tactic that could counteract the violent shock of the clansmen's charge. His troops sensed for the first time that they could beat the Jacobites in a pitched battle.

But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war, there can be no substitute for victory.

Now it was up to Bernard to consolidate his victory not just over Abelard, but over the entire Aristotelian worldview. What had offended Bernard most was how Abelard had tried to use the ancient pagan philosopher to pry open the most delicate divine mysteries.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome-to be got over.

Christ is the Divine answer to the Devil's overthrow of our first parents.