Quotes About Victory

He proved that people can be motivated. The mountain is there, but somebody else has already climbed it.

You're a magician or some kind of weird, witchy woman. I don't know how you do it. You never lose," he said one night, exasperated after I pummeled him game after game. "You're like Wonder Woman or some backgammon superhero. Hey, I've got it—you're Backgammon Girl.

The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.

from Rudyard Kipling's poem "If": If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same

War, in some ways, is merciful to men. It makes them heroes if they are the victors. If they are the vanquished - they do not live to see their homes taken, their wives widowed. But if you are a woman - you must live through defeat...

What a glorious morning for America!

When I fall I'll weep for happiness.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'

Triumph was laughable and terrible and his.

What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded.

It cost Christ and all His followers sharp showers and hot sweats ere they won to the top of the mountain. But still our soft nature would have heaven coming to our bedside when we are sleeping, and lying down with us, that we might go to heaven in warm clothes; but all that came there found wet feet by the way, and sharp storms that did take the hide off their face, and found tos and fros, and ups and downs, and many enemies by the way.

Christ's cross is such a burden as sails are to a ship or wings to a bird.

I never thought there had been need of so much wrestling to win to the top of that steep mountain as now I find.

However matters go, it is our happiness to win new ground daily in Christ's love, and to purchase a new piece of it daily, and to add conquest to conquest, till our Lord Jesus and we be so near each other, that Satan shall not draw a straw or a thread betwixt us.

Tenochtitlán, the once-magnificent, fell to Cortés. It lay, a heap of ruins, a charnel-house containing thousands of unburied corpses. Its overthrow was a masterpiece of military genius, valor, and enterprise. Everyone knew that it would take its place among immortal deeds of arms and felt proud to have had a share in it. Too bad that the once-glittering Valley with its palaces, gardens, cities, and temples had been laid waste, but such was war.

"The game is done! I've won, I've won!"Quoth she, and whistles thrice.

defeat the defeat before the defeat defeats you

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

Too often we, as believers, receive the promise of something good, like healing, and apply our faith to achieve the potential within that word, but we ignore what Jesus did to empower us with the victory to possess the promise within that word!

In order to win everything, a woman must know to lose.

It's not whether you win or lose — but whether I win or lose.

Every time you pull me down, I get stronger on the way back up.

Tutto quello che importa si ottiene con un po' di dolore. La storia si lava solo con il sangue.