Victory Quotes - page 45

But sometimes things happen that no one hopes for. Events that cause everything you've worked towards, the life you've carefully constructed piece by piece, to come tumbling down all around you. No one is to blame, but you're left with a wound you can't heal on your own and can't believe you'll ever learn to accept, so you struggle to escape the pain. Only time can heal wounds as deep as that - a lot of time - and all you can really do is place yourself in its hands and try to consider the passing of each day a victory. You tough it out moment by moment, hour by hour, and after some weeks or months you begin to see signs of recovery. Slowly the wound heals into a scar. (Ryu Murakami)
Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished. View quote
Alastair Reynolds
The martyrdom of our mujahid, devoted and selfless brother haj Imad Mugniya was a great victory and prosperous end for him...The crime-ridden and bloodthirsty Zionists must know that the holy blood of martyrs like Imad Mughniya create thousands of other Mughniyas. View quote
Imad Mughniyah
A child . . . must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks. View quote
Helen Keller
No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. View quote
William Faulkner
As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory. View quote
Bob Marley
The harder the battle the sweet of jah victory. View quote
Bob Marley
Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people. View quote
Chris Rock
The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence. View quote
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary's force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
We were conquered because we failed to understand that Victory is a Spirit, and that it is in ourselves and in ourselves alone that we must attack and destroy Ialdabaoth. (Anatole France)
Ashoka (264 to 227 B.C.), one of the great monarchs of history, whose dominions extended from Afghanistan to Madras... is the only military monarch on record who abandoned warfare] after [[victory. View quote
H. G. Wells
In no victory do they glory so much as in that which is gained by dexterity and good conduct without bloodshed. View quote
Thomas More
If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory. View quote
Benjamin Netanyahu
Sometimes a pinch of sadism is the ingredient that makes victory taste that little bit sweeter. View quote
Andrea Pirlo
Once you have acquired the skills, you must test them on an opponent, but in no way should you consider victory or submission to be a cause for shame or pride. Rather, you ought to think, "By what means did I defeat him?" Or, "By what means could have I defeated him?" View quote
Qi Jiguang
The tactical result of an engagement forms the base for new strategic decisions because victory or defeat in a battle changes the situation to such a degree that no human acumen is able to see beyond the first battle. View quote
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs. View quote
Lech Wałęsa
'Tis so much joy 'Tis so much joy If I should fail, what poverty And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw Have gained Yes Hesitated so this side the victory. View quote
Emily Dickinson
I hate the neologism "owned" for "scored a victory over." View quote
Richard Dawkins
In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will 'take our country back' from everyone they disapprove of. But what they don't realize is, there's a catch: This is America, and we have an entrenched oligarchical system in place that insulates us all from any meaningful political change. (Matt Taibbi)
Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison. View quote
Eduardo Galeano
It was the French way, the method that had brought victory to the armies of the Empire, the irresistible mass. Throw the mass like a human missile at the Castle's defenders, overwhelm them with targets, terrify them with the massed drummers in the column's centre, and push over the dead to victory. View quote
Bernard Cornwell
I remember one other battle, gentlemen, which almost matched our recent victory in carnage. After Assaye I had to thank a young Sergeant; today we salute the same man, a Captain. Gentlemen, I give you Sharpe's Eagle. View quote
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe could feel the excitement of the Company, their confidence, and he marvelled at it. They were enjoying it, taking on sixteen times their number, and he did not understand that it was because of him. Harper knew, Knowles knew, that the tall Rifle Captain who was not given to rousing speeches could nevertheless make men feel that the impossible was just a little troublesome and that victory was a commonplace where he led. View quote
Bernard Cornwell