Victory Quotes - Page 30

I can't fault my players. We created a lot of chances but we missed out on a victory because of the woodwork and goalkeeper Bonano, who did very well.

Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.

See, see how the sun has moved onward while we talked. Nothing can stop it in its course. Prayers cannot halt the revolving of nature. It is the same with human life. Victory and defeat are one in the vast stream of life. Victory is the beginning of defeat, and who can rest safely in victory? Impermanence is the nature of all things of this world. Even you will find your ill fortunes too will change. It is easy to understand the impatience of the old, whose days are numbered, but why should you young ones fret when the future is yours?

Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.

From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea - written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo - "There is no substitute for victory!"

The Cold War was a war, and we won it.

t's important to handle and learn from your defeats. The losses I've had taught me so much because they humbled me. You learn more from them than you do your victories. They can only make you a better fighter and a better man.

The U.S. victory in Gulf War was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.

It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.

There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject to no disappointments, since he that perseveres, makes every difficulty an advancement, and every contest a victory; and this is the pursuit of virtue.

Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.

Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.

To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.

If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.

If you expect a kick in the balls and you get a slap in the face, it's a victory.

The victories are what I judge things on.

Victory belong to the most persevering.

I love the smell of paper in the morning; it smells like victory.

The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

The conviction of the justification of using even the most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief in the necessity of the victory of a revolutionary new order on this globe.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height.