Quotes About Victory

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

Tom's army won a great victory, after a long and hard-fought battle. Then the dead were counted, prisoners exchanged, the terms of the next disagreement agreed upon, and the day for the necessary battle appointed; after which the armies fell into line and marched away, and Tom turned homeward alone.

He pointed to the money, and said: The love of it is the root of all evil. There it lies, the ancient tempter, newly red with the shame of its latest victory--the dishonor of a priest of God and his two poor juvenile helpers in crime. If it could but speak, let us hope that it would be constrained to confess that of all its conquests this was the basest and the most pathetic.

Shall I be car-ri-ed toe the skies, on flow'ry beds of ease, Whilst others fight to win the prize, and sail thro' blood-y

Smiley always came out a winner on that pup, till he bet on a dog once that didn't have no rear legs, because they'd been sawed off in a circular saw accident. When the fight had gone along far

We cannot rest within those walls, we have to struggle past them.

He is clearly exhausted, dehydrated, and perhaps a little unable to believe he has actually escaped the maze.

And to tell you the truth I was never sure I was going to make it until I finally did.

Victory doesn't mean anything if failure isn't a possibility.

The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it.

It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.

The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.

But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.

A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter.

because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it. It's the ones in between that test you. They're the ones that bring questions with them.

I just know that right now, we want to be proud. For once. We want to take the struggle and rise above it. We want to frame it, live it, survive it. We want to put it in our mouths and taste it and never forget it, because it makes us strong.

When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.

But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the beginning that you're going to win. It's the ones in between that test you. They're the ones that bring questions with them.

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She did not produce it easily, but when it came, she had a starving smile.

He's fighting the world." And now, I watch as the underdog in the middle of the circle fights on and stands and falls and returns to his haunches and feet and fights on again. He fights on, no matter how hard he hits the ground. He gets up. Some people cheer him. Others laugh now and rubbish him. Feeling comes out of me. I watch. My eyes swell, and burn. "Can he win?" I ask it, and now, I too cannot take my eyes off the boy in the circle.

When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.

Le gustaban los corrillos apretados y lo desconocido. La agridulce sensación de la incertidumbre: Ganar o perder.