Quotes About Victory

Arthur Hailey

What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants, and who is better than the minister. - Rev. John Hale

The Royal Navy had not built its magnificent reputation over the centuries by avoiding battle.

ProwadzÄ…cy dysputÄ™ walczy zwykle nie za prawdÄ™, lecz za swojÄ… tezÄ™ (...) Ka?dy wiÄ™c pragnie zwyci??y? zawsze, nawet wówczas, kiedy wÅ'asne twierdzenie uzna w danej chwili za bÅ'Ä™dne lub wÄ…tpliwe.

ten, kto wychodzi ze sporu zwyci?zc?, do?? cz?sto zawdzi?cza to nie tyle prawid?owo?ci s?du przy obronie swej tezy, ile sztuce i zr?czno?ci, z jak? to wykonywa?

they fasted as well as wept before the Lord, and God gave them overwhelming victory (Judg. 20). What power with God to turn the tide has prayer accompanied by fasting!

You may be right after all, I said to him in the kitchen. You may be right, but you'll never win. I think the opposite, he smiled, stirring the pot from which a wonderful aroma of rogan josh arose. We may turn out to be wrong, but we have already won.

You died. I cried. And kept on getting up. A little slower. And a lot more deadly.

And in a war that you cannot win, you don't want a general who fights to the point of total annihilation. You don't want Custer. You want Robert E. Lee, someone who knows how to fight for territory that can be won and how to surrender it when it can't, someone who understands that the damage is greatest if all you do is battle to the bitter end.

The nausea and the vomiting persisted, but she would not be defeated by them.

The necessity of nature's final victory was expected and accepted in generations before our own. Doctors were far more willing to recognize the signs of defeat and far less arrogant about denying them.

your smile has been to war

Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer. None of these struggles are ever easy, and even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded, because it is so easy not to battle at all, to just accept and call that acceptance inevitable.

life in Moscow is a constant fight against the cold weather, and that living is only a triumph against death by freezing.

Within the war we are all waging with the forces of death, subtle and otherwise, conscious or not - I am not only a casuality, I am also a warrior.

Herald Loomis, you shining! You shining like new money!

One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered...

And I won 'em back fair and square. So what are you going to do about it? Want to fight? Who wants the first bloody nose?

Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You're here. It's our time and our life, not theirs. Don't struggle not to be happy. You are. - John Gault

Do not let the hero in your soul parish, in lonely frustration, for the life you deserved but never have been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

And I wish I had the power to tell tem that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. For the battle they lost can never be lost.

The world you desire can be won. It exists...it is real...it is possible...it's yours.

Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.