Quotes About Victory

Going back to the first time, your first dreams of playing in the NFL, you don't just dream of playing in the NFL. You dream of playing in the Super Bowl.

That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.

Who speaks of victory? To endure is all.

When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.

And the expenditure of energy only seems so great because you put too much importance on the victory. It is not victory that is the 'great thing' you think you have achieved, though the feeling itself is not in error. What is great is that there was already something there that you were able to set in place of that deception, something true and real.

But it is over now; I have survived it.

EÈ™ti miza jocului pe care de-l câÈ™tigi pierzi tot.

Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor.

But live you must, and you can either make passive love to your sickness or burn it out and go on to the next conflicting phase. ? Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man . (Vintage International; 2nd edition March 14, 1995) Originally published 1952.

Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open." They thought the old man had gone out of his mind. He had been the meekest of men. The younger children were rushed from the

It's "winner take nothing" that is the great truth of our country or of any country. Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

with the combatants being the same people, civil wars are never really won; and because their most devastating engagements are fought within the individual human heart.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

When you strike at a king, you must kill him.

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.

Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe. So it is in rugged crises, in unweariable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of question, that the angel is shown.

Rectitude is a perpetual victory, celebrated not by cries of joy but by serenity, which is joy fixed or habitual.

A political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

But Homer's words are as costly and admirable to Homer, as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon

When Christ died on the cross for us, he said, It is finished (John 19:30). The Greek word translated it is finished was commonly written across certificates of debt when they were canceled. It meant paid in full. Christ died so that the certificate of debt, consisting of all our sins, could once and for all be marked paid in full.

Jesus came not only to save spirits from damnation. That would have been, at most, a partial victory. No, he came to save his whole creation from death. That means our bodies too, not just our spirits. It means the earth, not just humanity. And it means the universe, not just the earth. Christ's