Quotes About Victory

People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled-secure from violent passions or temptations to evil-those who have never needed to struggle all night with the angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.

Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I gained one.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Conquer but never triumph.

The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

I will write of him who fights and vanquishes his sins, who struggles on through weary years against himself ... and wins.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; the hardest victory is the victory over self.

There ain't nothing from the outside can lick any of us.

For they can conquer who believe they can.

Don't give up the ship!

The rules of soccer are very simple. Basically it's this: If it moves, kick it; if it doesn't move, kick it until it does.

Losers have tons of variety. Champions take pride in just learning to hit the same old boring winners.

The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy.

I can always make it a rule to get there first with the most men.

The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.

It is not the guns or armament Or the money they can pay, It's the close co-operation That makes them win the day. It is not the individual Or the army as a whole, But the everlastin' teamwork Of every bloomin' soul.

He rose without a friend, and sat down without an enemy.