Quotes About Victory

Glory may be everlasting, yet it is fleeting as well—soon forgotten in the aftermath of even the most famous of victories if they lead to greater disasters.

It is no easy thing to slay a dragon, but it can be done.

Gold has its uses, but war is won with iron.

and take the ironmen in the rear while they are beating off what they think is my main thrust up the causeway

My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish

There is always someone quicker and stronger, Ser Rodrik had once told Jon and Robb. He's the man you want to face in the yard before you need to face his like upon a battlefield.

The day is won [...] And yet you do not smile, boy. The living should smile, for the dead cannot.

Would you lesson me in warfare? I was fighting battles when you were sucking mother's milk. And losing battles too.

A small victory, he thought, but sweet.

We have won a battle, not a war

You don't feel your wounds then, or the ache in your back from the weight of the armor, or the sweat running down into your eyes. You stop feeling, you stop thinking, you stop being you, there is only the fight, the foe, this man and then the next and the next and the next, and you know they are afraid and tired but you're not, you're alive, and death is all around you but their swords move so slowly, you can dance through them laughing." Battle fever.

The Red Sword of Heroes looks a proper mess

In a swordfight, a man's surest defense is the swift stroke that slays his foe, not cringing behind a shield.

Men can always fight, Your Grace. Ask rather if we can win. Dying is easy, but victory comes hard.

The mystery knight prevails against all challengers, and wonder dances in his wake.

May the Warrior grant me a smooth course and a quick victory.

Not all of us can be as bold as Jaime, but there are other ways to win wars.

Tell me who's won and I'll tell you what it means.

High, low, overhand, he rained down steel upon her. Left, right, backslash, swinging so hard that sparks flew when the swords came together, upswing, sideslash, overhand, always attacking, moving into her, step and slide, strike and step, step and strike, hacking, slashing, faster, faster, faster . . .until, breathless, he stepped back and let the point of the sword fall to the ground, giving her a moment of respite. "Not half bad," he acknowledged. "For a wench.

Ninguna batalla está perdida hasta que se pelea

I count no day as lived unless I have loved a woman, slain a foeman, and eaten a fine meal . . . and the days that I have lived are as numberless as the stars in the sky.

The battle proved a victory—at least in part—and soon after, his grandfather finally died, and Ser Elmo became Lord of Riverrun. But he did not long enjoy his station; he died on the march forty-nine days later, leaving his young son, Ser Kermit, to succeed him.

A man will win one tourney, and fall quickly in the next. A slick spot in the grass may mean defeat, or what you ate for supper the night before. A change in the wind may bring the gift of victory." He glanced at Ser Jorah. "Or a lady's favor knotted round an arm." Mormont's face darkened. "Be careful what you say, old man.

a man who has survived a hundred fights can break in his hundred-and-first.