Quotes About Victory

The simplest thing is - Dillian Whyte can't hurt me.

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

Scoring can be simply a matter of confidence. Sometimes it happens easily.

The hardship of the exercises is intended less to strengthen the back than to toughen the mind. The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has its legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.

You have never tasted freedom, friend, Dienekes spoke, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.

For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self within, that part which looks only to its own preservation, to save its own skin. That, I saw, was the victory you Spartans had gained over yourselves. That was the glue. It was what you had learned and it made me stay, to learn it too.

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

Fame Imperishable and glory that will never die -- that is what we march for!

Nobody knew I was done. Nobody cared. But I knew. I felt like a dragon I'd been fighting all my life had just dropped dead at my feet and gasped out its last sulfuric breath. Rest in peace, motherfucker.

When deliberating, think in campaigns and not battles; in wars and not campaigns; in ultimate conquest and not wars.

The will to victory may be demonstrated in places other than actual battle.

Be brave, my heart [wrote the poet and mercenary Archilochus]. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep. The ancients resisted innovation in warfare because they feared it would rob the struggle of honor. King Agis was shown a new catapult, which could shoot a killing dart 200 yards. When he saw this, he wept. "Alas," he said. "Valor is no more.

The payoff for a life of adversity is freedom.

The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they. —Plutarch Sayings of the Spartans

From the day I finally finished something, I've never had trouble finishing anything again.

Be brave, my heart [wrote the poet and mercenary Archilochus]. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep.

Our greatest fear is fear of success.

The hero wanders. The hero suffers. The hero returns. You are that hero.

The danger is greatest when the finish line is in sight. At this point, Resistance knows we're about to beat it. It hits the panic button. It marshals one last assault and slams us with everything it's got.

You have never tasted freedom, friend," Dienekes spoke, "or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.

The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else. The ancient Spartans schooled themselves to regard the enemy, any enemy, as nameless and faceless. In other words, they believed that if they did their work, no force on earth could stand against them.

The hero wanders. The hero suffers. The hero returns.

We slew three hundred of them," replied Artemisia, "and it took two million of us to do it." These

We can never eliminate Resistance. It will never go away. But we can outsmart it, and we can enlist allies that are as powerful as it is.