Quotes About Victory

Although I was in the cold water and my teeth were chattering, I could feel perspiration running down my forehead as visions of failure swan around in my head. Although I was not the first, I felt that I was the first and would celebrate when I'd accomplished my goal. My focus was on reaching the other side of the Solent.

Everything's Coming Up Roses

The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.

He knew that once you bested anybody like Mr. Scratch in fair fight, his power on you was gone. And he could see that Mr. Scratch knew it too.

The fact of the matter is that George G. Meade, unexpectedly and against the odds, thoroughly outgeneraled Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg.18

If you have imaginary enemies, it is possible to have imaginary victories.

Someone has said that the difference between a successful person and a failure is that the successful person got up the last time he or she was knocked down. That

Losing is not the same as being defeated.

there is an old adage: If the guerillas do not lose, they ultimately win. . . .

Military history is rife with examples of generals and presidents who squander strategic advantage by failing to press a battlefield triumph to its conclusion. Here was the same story again, involving not only complacency but also inexplicable strategic judgment, fractured decision making, and confusion.

In the Christian life, it's not how you start that matters. It's how you finish.

Failure is but the longer road to triumph.

Let's make a game of it, shall we?" she said. "Whoever kills the most, wins." "I will kill twenty!" Lydia declared. "I will kill thirty!" Kitty countered. Mary paused for a moment of sober calculation. "I will kill thirty-two." she said. "I will kill as long as I must," said Jane. "And I will kill as long as I can," said Elizabeth

Always win; but if you must lose, make the person in front of you break the record.

You are not a victim. No matter what you have been through, you're still here. You may have been challenged, hurt, betrayed, beaten, and discouraged, but nothing has defeated you. You are still here! You have been delayed but not denied. You are not a victim, you are a victor. You have a history of victory.

My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.

Having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross" (Colossians 2:15).

I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5,000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.

Let me tell you, deep-water sea-bitch wrestling can work up an awful appetite. Then

What's the point of having weak enemies? They just waste your time.

Let him who doubts the victory wrest the banner from my hand.

I'd fought personal demons and impersonal gods and wandered through buildings that couldn't exist to do impossible things.