Quotes About Victory

Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.

Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?

silent defeats taste better

Nadie triunfa sin fracasar antes

Nulla che valga la pena in questa vita è facile.

En aquellos días aprendí que nada da más miedo que un héroe que vive para contarlo, para contar lo que todos los que cayeron a su lado no podrán contar jamás

He didn't know who he was messing with, did he, Papa? asked Grant, giving his karate pose. Papa laughed. No, Grant, he didn't. He finally picked on a family he couldn't outsmart. I guess he'll go to jail now. With moose hair up his nose! said Alex and they all laughed.

Surely, by all convention, the Iliad will end here, with the triumphant return of its vindicated hero. But the Iliad is not a conventional epic, and at the very moment of its hero's greatest military triumph, Homer diverts his focus from Achilles to the epic's two most important casualties, Patroklos and Hektor: it is to the consequences of their deaths, especially to the victor, that all action of the Iliad has been inexorably leading.

Jesus won the war, and the rest of history is simply mopping up.

Following the picnic supper, there were games of competition for the fathers and their daughters. Victory crowned the efforts of the Drews in several contests.

Winning and Learning

I couldn't find Dr. Flemming among the audience, either. So, Duke, Flemming, and Stockton had all ditched. Did that make me the last one standing? Did that mean I won? What, exactly, did I win?

Coborâtul este partea cea mai grea din orice c???rare.

If you are tired, keep going; if you are scared, keep going; if you are hungry, keep going; if you want to taste freedom, keep going.

Nobody likes for the hero to walk away.

As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light where there's dark, seeing possibility in dead ends, tasting victory as others spit out failure, questioning where others accept. Just a little less jaded, a little less cynical.

I cannot get through this day. But I did. Somehow. And then that day was over and I was facing the night and I said to myself, I cannot face this night. But I did. Somehow

When the lows are so immense, victories are small. But they are there despite it. You just have to know them when you see them, little pockets of light and hope hidden away in darkness.

A good deed was indeed a triumph for the soul.

NO. For someone to win, somebody else must lose. For that person to have won they must have lost something in the first place. The irony of justice is that the feelings that precede it and those which fruit from it are never fair and balanced. Not even justice itself is perfect.

Supongo que es más fácil ver la salida cuando uno mismo ha conseguido salir del laberinto.

I was right. And right wins every time.

In order to fly one must first clear the shit off one's wings.

Consider this. The essence of war is to kill your enemy and not get killed yourself.