Quotes About Victory

You don't have any problem with reality. You face it head on and tackle that bitch to the ground.

I am made, crudely, for success.

I have often fought, fought & won, not perfection, but an acceptance of myself as having a right to live on my own human, fallible terms.

We shall by morning Inherit the earth. Our foot's in the door.

think in chapters, stories, fight through to triumph

miedo a triunfar y después, de algún modo, perderlo todo.

Ka?dy mistrz by? kiedy? do kitu

What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, and wins her the victory?

Only through time time is conquered

If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

We have only to conquer Now, by suffering. This is the easier victory. Now is the triumph of the cross.

Survival is your strength not your shame.

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by stratagem, or by resistance, Not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast And have conquered. We have only to conquer Now, by suffering.

As solemn music played, vying with the harsh wind to be heard, the thought came to many of those who watched that although Sesuad'ra's defenders had won an improbable and heroic victory, they had paid dearly for it. The fact that they had defeated only the tiniest portion of the forces arrayed against them, and had lost nearly half their number in doing so, made the winter-shrouded hillcrest seem an even colder and lonelier place.

Ah, yes. ''Errors of caution are more likely to be considered at leisure than errors of boldness – but less likely to be considered after a victory.'' In other words, if you are too careful, you are more likely to live, but less likely to win.

The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade.

Experience has taught me the power of trophies. You may have every knick-knack and useless contraption ever devised, but while they weigh you down, a simple trophy can go a long, long way.

the object of war was not to win battles or destroy the enemy, but to provide a field for the performance of heroic deeds, which were subsequently immortalized in poetry. For the early Arabs to fight honorably was more important than to win.   T

Haven't you ever noticed that people who win say it's because the gods know they are in the right, but if they lose, it wasn't the gods who declared them wrong? Their opponent cheated, or their equipment was bad.

It's always better to attack than to defend, Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!

Sweetheart, never listen to what my enemies say. They're very confused people. I know they are because I've spent years making them that way.

He was overconfident", she told him. "And I won so the gods must have thought I was right. Otherwise they'd have made me lose. You know how trial by combat works." "You won because you were good" he corrected her. "I find it hard to believe the gods sit forever about the Divine Realms betting on jousts and trials by combat.

Tananarive Due

Strings and blades are your domain, Mercurio. We'll prevail on your for a song.