Quotes About Victory

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win, Atticus said

I wanted you to see something about her–I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.

There are times when your body takes control. Times when the gazelle says, 'Fuck you, lioness,' and delivers the biggest kick of its whole gazelley life.

It's true that life brings us far more defeats than victories. And real-life wisdom arises not so much from knowing how we might beat someone as from learning how to accept defeat with grace.

And when it was all over, the king and his retainers burst out laughing.

I study the chessboard and concede defeat. You can gain yourself in five moves says the Colonel. Worth fighting to the end. In five moves your opponent can err. No war is won or lost until the final battle is over.

It's sometimes hard to avoid losing. Nobody's going to win all the time.

You can't go anywhere if you resign yourself to being attacked.

they are transforming their organizations into armies of killer apps and crunching their way to victory.

Harvey Araton

Iron helmets will not save/ Even heroes from the grave/ Good man's blood will drain away/ While the wickid win the day.

I will not be defeated by a bad man and an American stick insect...instead I choose Chaka Khan...and vodka... Bridget Jones

While they were saying it couldn't be done, it was done.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

The day is ours, and what the day has shown.

autobiography

Veli?anstvenost bogatstva ljudskoga iskustva izgubila bi svoju vrednost i užitak kada ne bi postojale neke prepreke koje moramo presko?iti. Trenutak osvajanja planine ne bi bio ni upola toliko prekrasan kada ne bi bilo onih mra?nih dolina koje smo prebrodili.

Meskipun dunia penuh dengan penderitaan, dunia juga penuh dengan perjuangan untuk menaklukkan penderitaan itu.

I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since.

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.

People are always saying it's the end of the Gutenberg era. More to the point, it's a return to an oral era. The Gutenberg galaxy was about the written word. At its best, the digital era is part of the rediscovery of the oral. At its worst, it's a Kafkaesque victory of the bureaucratic over the imagination.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.

Whoever says Real Madrid are dead is always proved wrong in the long term.