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Quotes About Victory

How can Luthor win without you?" asked the woman from the Canine Chronicle. "Because he is the best dog by many levels of magnitude.
~ Gordon Korman
He raced down the line and dove into first base just ahead of the tag.
~ Gordon Korman
Then, in front of the entire Manhattan Coliseum, the winning handler at Global wrapped her arms around Griffin and kissed him.
~ Gordon Korman
When you're on top, you've got the confidence. The confidence gives you the attitude. And the attitude is what keeps you on top.
~ Gordon Korman
never underestimate the power of the forces stacked against you.
~ Gordon Korman
We're on the roof of the Serenity Plastics Works—the highest point of our universe for our entire lives. Every time you look up, there it is. Eli puts it into words. "This must be how it felt to stand on the summit of Mount Everest for the first time.
~ Gordon Korman
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
~ Gore Vidal
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
~ Gore Vidal
In the end, only Washington's majestic presence kept the army together. He was also lucky in his British counterparts: mediocrities to a man. (One British observer noted, "Any general in the world other than General Howe would have beaten General Washington; and any general in the world other than General Washington would have beaten General Howe.")
~ Gore Vidal
Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
~ Goswami Kriyananda
You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.' Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.
~ Graham Greene
There are unimportant pieces in any game.
~ Graham Greene
He looked out over the landscape of baking earth and bleak iron huts towards the Scobies' house as though he were examining the scene of a battle after the defeat. He wondered how all that dreary scene would have appeared if he had been victorious, but in human love there is never such a thing as victory: only a few minor tactical successes before the final defeat of death or indifference.
~ Graham Greene
Freedom, I thought, comes only to the successful
~ Graham Greene
When the odds are impossible -- do the impossible.
~ Grant Morrison
So this additional indignity will be inflicted upon you. It means, I believe, that humans will not end here, but may rise again—fight again. Humans are always warriors.
~ Greg Bear
Occupation of vast reaches of space means nothing. It is control of population centers and essential resources that determines victory or defeat.
~ Greg Bear
The quest, the fight—never the finding or the victory.
~ Greg Bear
Peace has cost you your strength," Bane declared. "Victory has defeated you.
~ Greg Cox
You yourself fought the decadence of Gotham for years—with all your strength and resources, all your moral authority. And the only victory you could achieve was a lie.
~ Greg Cox
There is nothing so momentary as a sporting achievement, and nothing so lasting as the memory of it.
~ Greg Dening
In any battle, out of every hundred men, ten shouldn't be there. Eighty are just targets. Nine are good soldiers, and we're lucky to have them. But one, that one is a warrior, and will bring the others home.
~ Greg Iles
superior numbers took their toll. Realizing that he and
~ Greg Iles
He only earns his freedom who daily conquers anew. —Goethe, Faust
~ Greg Mitchell