Quotes About Victory

Show me someone who's okay with losing," he said, "and I'll show you a loser.

They deserved a victory lap, I thought to myself, a moment of pure elation. Which is why, even as I quieted the crowd and dove into my speech, I didn't have the heart to correct those well-meaning chanters—to remind them that in the year 2008, with the Confederate flag and all it stood for still hanging in front of a state capitol just a few blocks away, race still mattered plenty, as much as they might want to believe otherwise.

In this new world, a foreign policy victory by every traditional standard could be spun as a defeat, at least in the minds of half the country; messages that advanced our interests and built goodwill abroad could lead to a host of political headaches back home.

No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.

No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.

This is how conquest occurs: one plan is always larger than the other.

What is the conquerer's wife, fi not a conquest herself?

marched uphill to meet her demise.

why would it? He had won, and

Barbara Taylor Bradford

He who ascends to mountaintops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind

He paweth in the valley and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. —JOB

was whining the war

When your sword meets that of your enemy, you can never waver, but must instead attack with the complete resolution of your whole body… —Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings

You must think of neither victory nor of defeat, but only of cutting and killing your enemy. I

I looked over the despondency of the home crowd. Fools! Fools! I thought. Love it! Love the loss as well as the gain. Go home and dig it. Nobody was killed. We saw victory and defeat, and they were both wonderful.

Immortality is a meaningless word unless invulnerability goes with it.

And the side that knew how to utilize power was the side that won.

every triumph is also a defeat, and the ecstasies of those who prevail are matched by the agonies of those who lose.

The group that emerged as victorious and declared itself orthodox determined the shape of Christianity for posterity—determining its internal structure, writing its creeds, and compiling its revered texts into a sacred canon of Scripture.

Business is like football, Craig. If you have to knock someone down to reach the goal line, you better damn well do it, or you shouldn't put on a uniform and go out on the field in the first place.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us. And sometimes...they win...

We had once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

Had we to do it over again," he said in an interview sixteen months after the invasion, "we would look at the consequences of catastrophic success.