Quotes About Victory

Nobody wins, ask Caesar

Di medan perang, manusia jahat itu memang tidak bisa dikalahkan

And it is always the victors who write the historical narrative.

If winning cures everything, then losing poisons everything.

Lower your sights, boy,' he said to Joe Winder. 'I agree, justice is probably out of the question. But we can damn sure ruin their day.

Smallpox has been wiped out worldwide.

a contact sport like football.

He was always running or bounding, never just walking. He seemed always at the point of defeating the law of gravity.

Sabes cuál es la mayor victoria de una gata sobre un tejado de zinc caliente? Resistir en él todo el tiempo que le sea posible, hasta el último segundo.

We sometimes think of life as a conflict between the head and the heart, but in such a situation there is no unity of the human being, but only truces, compromises, and temporary victories of parties with divergent interests. The virtuous soul, on the contrary, blends all its parts in the act of choice.

You will never assassinate my ghosts.

Evolution is a competitive game in which victory comes not from achieving some fixed number of points but by simply outscoring the opposition

Deserve Victory

think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn't think of how to win.

I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!

Wizard's Eighth Rule Talga Vassternich. (Deserve Victory)

When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory so they can retain their dignity while they do as you insist. ~ Kahlan Mother Confessor

Cut the attacker down, to cut them down to their very soul

Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you've done your job, then there aren't any of the enemy left to dispute your leader's reasons. At least not until the next war.

Talga Vassternich!

of his past captors. Any warrior would. He

Whoever wins thinks he was in the right. The loser will always believe himself wronged.

much the same as you men are strong and can wield a heavy battle-axe, whereas an old man could not. Even though you have the muscle to do this, that doesn't mean that your muscles can do what they aren't meant to do, such as exercise wisdom the old man has from his experience. He may defeat you in battle through his knowledge, rather than his muscle.

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.