Quotes About Victory

There are no difficulties that can't be overcome

Of course the Russians under Zhukov were

assailing her. Were they doing the

Seventeen days before the end of the war, the minesweeper Caine finally swept a mine.

By keeping back the twenty-five squadrons from the lost Battle of France, he acted toughly, wisely, and ungallantly; and he turned the war to the course that ended five long years later, when Hitler killed himself and Nazi Germany fell apart. This deed put Winston Churchill in the company of the rare saviors of countries, and perhaps of civilizations.

The two festivals have one real point of contact. Had Antiochus succeeded in obliterating Jewry a century and a half before the birth of Jesus, there would have been no Christmas. The feast of the Nativity rests on the victory of Hanuka. Chapter 8 The Prayers, the Synagogue, and the Worshippers GOD cannot be much of an Almighty, it has

bridgehead beyond, upon the southern shore. And thereby, should help come to them, they might cross the Loire in strength into Charles's land and perhaps overcome him yet. Therefore

if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep.

Her heart raced with joy to sleep with War

Whene'er, by Jove's decree, our conquering powers Shall humble to the dust her lofty towers.

Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you in the field where men win fame. But now, as it is, the fates of death await us, thousands poised to strike, and not a man alive can flee them or escape – so in we go for attack! Give our enemy glory or win it for ourselves!

So now I meet my doom. Well let me die— but not without struggle, not without glory, no, in some great clash of arms that even men to come will hear of down the years!

A double chance of destiny impends: If here remaining, round the walls of Troy I wage the war, I ne'er shall see my home, But then undying glory shall be mine: If I return, and see my native land, 490 My glory all is gone; but length of life Shall then be mine, and death be long deferr'd.

What greater glory attends a man, while he's alive, than what he wins with his racing feet and striving hands?

I am at home, for I am he. I bore adversities, but in the twentieth year, I am ashore in my own land.

There I sacked the city, killed the men, but as for the wives and plunder, that rich haul we dragged away from the place —

for which I suffered much hardship, which the sons of the Achaeans gave me!

We're glad to say we're men of Atrides Agamemnon, whose fame is the proudest thing on earth these days, so great a city he sacked, such multitudes he killed!

885]   "Brag while you can, Hector. Zeus and Apollo Have given you

be always best in battle and pre-eminent beyond all others

Hector...boast while you may. The victory is yours, a gift from Zeus the Son of Cronos and Apollo. They conquered me...Listen to this and ponder it well. You too, I swear it, have not long to live. Already sovran Destiny and Death are very close to you, death at the hands of Achilles, the peerless son of Peleus

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

Success is powerful medicine.

You don't have to feed the lie if you don't want it to. If you make it credible it will become that, but only in your mind and only as disproportionate as you've decided it is. Truth has a way of being more persistent and if the two ever meet, truth will win.