Quotes About Victory

There comes a time when a sorcerer must triumph on his own or die.

Every man fights backward—to kill others. Yet his victory comes not in the killing of others but in the killing of certain parts of himself. To show that I understood him, I said, You must have killed all the worst parts of your own being.

Every man fights backward to kill others. Yet his victory comes not in the killing others, but in the killing of certain parts of himself.

We're like two dogs in battle on their own; They fought all day but neither got the bone, There came a kite above them, nothing loth, And while they fought he took it from them both. From Chaucer's The Knight's Tale

Amor vincit omnia: Love conquers all.

We're like two dogs in battle on their own; They fought all day but neither got the bone, There came a kite above them, nothing loth, And while they fought he took it from them both.

Take heed, you bear in mind the piety you owe unto your country and unto your fellow countrymen, whose slaughter by the treachery of the Payneham shall be unto your disgrace everlasting. Unless you press hardily forward to defend them. Fight therefore for your country, and if it be that death overtake you, suffer it willingly for your country's sake. For death itself is victory, and a healing unto the soul.

I never asked to be a king: it was pushed on me. So if you are going to say 'Son of St Louis: gird on the sword of your ancestors, and lead us to victory' you may spare your breath to cool your porridge; for I cannot do it. I am not built that way; and there is an end of it.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

It's never just a game when you're winning.

Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

Whatever happened to "In victory, magnanimity; in defeat, defiance." So said Frederick the Great.

It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable - when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us - that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.

The best horse will win in spite of pedigree, my boy. You remember Napoleon's mot—Je suis un ancêtre said Sir Hugo, who habitually undervalued birth, as men after dining well often agree that the good of life is distributed with wonderful equality.

Nevertheless the joy of being with Dinah would triumph - it was like the influence of climate, which no resistance can overcome.

A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

The game is not lost - or won - until the last bell goes.

I will remember this day for the rest of my life. There is nothing you can say. It's just like you won the match after the earthquake and it just feels great.

Battles are won in the hearts of men.