Quotes About Victory

You can be winning and feel like you're losing if you don't keep score.

Todo momento grande y exigente que se produce en los anales del mundo es el triunfo de algún entusiasmo. RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The day you stop racing is the day you win the race. —BOB MARLEY

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. —NELSON MANDELA

Encontraremos un camino, o bien lo construiremos. ANÍBAL

They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!

A man desires to win a virgin heart, and is happy to know, - or at least to believe, -that he has won it. With a woman every former rival is an added victim to the wheels of the triumphant chariot in which she is sitting.

If further glory or even further gain were to come out of this terrible war, — as great gains to men and nations do come from contests which are very terrible while they last, — he at least would not live to see it.

He conquered his enemies by their weakness rather than by his own strength

The Triumph of the Giants

Anthony Trollope

CHAPTER LXX AT LAST

That battle of the mistletoe had been fought on the morning before Christmas Day, and the Holmeses came on Christmas Eve.

CHAPTER LXXV ARABELLA'S SUCCESS

The beef and pudding were ponderous, but with due efforts they were overcome and disappeared.

hope they will be kind to you," said Paul. "No; — but I will be kind to them. I have conquered others by being kind, but I have never had much kindness myself. Did I not conquer you, sir, by being gentle and gracious to you? Ah

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life. And by practice this becomes extended to so many branches, that the delights, — and also the disappointments, — are very widespread

Sir Lamda Mewnew and Sir Omicron Pie had thrice

CHAPTER LXI THE SUCCESS OF LADY AUGUSTUS

Anthony Trollope

I can say to myself, "You've been through that and you are alive and you have done all right.

THE FIRST DAY OF FREEDOM!': this was how Daniel O'Connell headed one letter on 14 April 1829, the day after Catholic Emancipation became law in Britain and Ireland.

The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious. Sisyphus, proletarian of the gods, powerless and rebellious, knows the whole extent of his wretched condition: it is what he thinks of during his descent. The lucidity that was to constitute his torture at the same time crowns his victory. There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

La matière ne me mangera pas, moi.