Quotes About Victory

If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.

What if feeling good only comes after you destroy someone you hate?' 'That's not good, that's triumph

Beyond the doors, the street and the gates were empty. The Hill Folk had vanished as mysteriously as they had come. A shuddering sigh of relief, not my own, brought my attention home and heartward. I shut my eyes, smiling, and clung with all my strength to Vidanric as kisses rained on my hair, my eyes, and finally--lingeringly--on my lips. The duel was over, and we had won.

It isn't over until you're no longer breathing. Fight like you will win.

I have never suffered greatly ... If you can reach fifty without a catastrophe, you've won. You've got away with it.

To make a long story short, you know quite well that when a woman puts her foot down, she wins.

But the scrawny, powerless man with his arms outstretched on the cross had at some point reclaimed Otsu. Still, that doesn't change the fact that I won. With startling rapacity God had merely picked up a man I discarded.

I am but a small-winged bird: But I will conquer the big world As the bee-martin beats the crow By attacking it always from Above.

Business is a game,' David told Kate, 'played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the

Business is a game,' David told Kate, 'played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.

For talent was like a frail flower growing under solid rock. In the end, nothing could stop it from bursting through and blooming.

The clapping got louder. Sweat ran down my ribs from my armpits. This was a lot scarier than going into sudden-death overtime in a crowded arena.

Dragons and all other creatures that serve the Devil only seem big as long as we harbor fear within ourselves. But if a person seeks God with such earnestness and desire that he enters into His power, then the power of the Devil at once suffers such a great defeat that his instruments become small and impotent. Dragons and evil spirits shrink until they are no bigger than goblins and cats and crows.

Pyrrhus invaded Italy at the start of the campaigning season in 280 BC. In two brutal and bloody battles he successfully defeated the Romans. The Greek king, though, having seen so many of his soldiers slaughtered in achieving this success, was said to have remarked, 'With another victory like this, we will be finished!' (Hence our modern phrase 'pyrrhic victory'.)

The Roman people paid great attention to the rightness of their wars in the building of the empire. 'When the inception of war seems just,' ran the logic, 'it makes victory greater and ill success less perilous, while if it is thought to be dishonourable and wrong, it has the opposite effect'.

You didn't beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!

A glorious victory has a funny way of erasing memories of the reasons why a victory was needed in the first place.

Surely, he thought, next to a battle lost there is nothing so dreadful as a battle won.

Major General Howard Conner, "without the Navajos, the marines would never have taken Iwo Jima.

all success cloaks a surrender

Between women love is contemplation; caresses are meant less to appropriate the other than to recreate oneself slowly through her; separation is eliminated, there is neither fight nor victory nor defeat; each one is both subject and object

Dac? tr?ieÅŸti destul de mult, vei vedea c? fiecare victorie se transform? într-o înfrângere.

Existentialism alone gives - like religions - a real role to evil, and it is this, perhaps, which make its judgments so gloomy. Men do not like to feel themselves in danger. Yet, it is because there are real dangers, real failures and real earthly damnation that words like victory, wisdom, or joy have meaning. Nothing is decided in advance, and it is because man has something to lose and because he can lose that he can also win.

It is because there are real dangers, real failures and real earthly damnation that words like victory, wisdom, or joy have meaning. Nothing is decided in advance, and it is because man has something to lose and because he can lose that he can also win.