Victory Quotes - Page 13

• It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Soul, Use

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• Victory to the spider. Patience wins the day. And today my patience ends. (Apollymi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Winning, Spiders, Today

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• But you helped me and Arik. Why would you do that if you really feel that way? (Geary) What can I say? It’s so much more enjoyable to snatch victory from the hands of the gullible. You guys make the most delightful sound of agony when you’re betrayed. (Solin)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hands, Agony, Guy

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “The Dream-Hunter”, p.205, Hachette UK

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• Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.

  Anne Rice

  Revenge, Interesting, Concern

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2294, Ballantine Books

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• Never be passive. Victories happen when you take charge of a game. You can't win by playing not to lose".

  Karen Kingsbury

  Winning, Games, Can't Win

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• You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.' Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.

  Graham Greene

  Mean, Promise, Desire

  Graham Greene (1951). “The heart of the matter”

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• Never take your eyes off your opponent. And never think you don’t have to work for a victory. Even now, you could surprise me. (Takeshi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Eye, Thinking, Opponents

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.432, Macmillan

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• You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Uplifting

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• They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.

  Giordano Bruno

  Order, Opinion, Disputes

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.

  Joan Jett

  Mistake, Inspirational Music

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• For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Children of Húrin”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.

  Tennessee Williams

  Cat, Long, Wish

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof act 1 (1955). Ellipses in the original.

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• 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.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Gold, Poison, Empires

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.2, NYU Press

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• If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of all moral reflections, than to be at the expence of building navies, filling them with men, and then hauling them into the ocean, to try which can sink each other fastester. Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infintely more advantage than any victory with all its expence. But this, though it best answers the purpose of Nations, does not that of Court Governments, whose habited policy is pretence for taxation, places, and offices.

  Thomas Paine

  Ocean, Thinking, Reflection

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• Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer

  Robert Asprin

  Battle, Custer, Superiority

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• Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Mean, Alternatives

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir, I must tell you now, I believe this attack will fail. No 15,000 men ever made could take that ridge. It's a distance of more than a mile, over open ground. When the men come out of the trees, they will be under fire from Yankee artillery from all over the field. And those are Hancock's boys! And now, they have the stone wall like we did at Fredericksburg.

  Michael Shaara

  Wall, Distance, Believe

  "Fictional character: Lieutenant General James Longstreet". "Gettysburg", www.imdb.com. October 8, 1993.

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• ...there must be a sequence to learning, that perseverance and a certain measure of perspiration are indispensable, that individual pleasures must frequently be submerged in the interests of group cohesion, and that learning to be critical and to think conceptually and rigorously do not come easily to the young but are hard-fought victories.

  Neil Postman

  Perseverance, Thinking, Groups

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.146, Penguin

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• It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping up.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mopping Up, Imagination, Fans

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self within, that part which looks only to its own preservation, to save its own skin. That, I saw, was the victory you Spartans had gained over yourselves. That was the glue. It was what you had learned and it made me stay, to learn it too.

  Steven Pressfield

  Selfish, Skins, Glue

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• every failure is also a victory.

  David Foster Wallace

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• There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single decision. Life and death, hope and despair, victory and failure teeter precariously on the decision made at that moment. These are moments ungoverned by happenstance, untroubled by luck. These are the moments in which a person earns the right to live, or not.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Life And Death, Decision, Luck

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• When we support or vote for candidates outside the two major political parties we are immediately lectured about wasting our vote or making it easier for the less desirable of the two major candidates to claim victory. These lies are repeated every election and they must be ignored. You never waste your vote if you vote your conscience.

  Glenn Beck

  Lying, Party, Two

  Glenn Beck (2009). “Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• The FUTURE of this world has long been DECLARED; the final outcome between GOOD and evil is already KNOWN. There is absolutely no question as to who WINS because the VICTORY has already been posted on the SCOREBOARD. The only really strange thing is all of this is that we are still down here on the FIELD trying to decide which TEAM’S JERSEY we want to wear!

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Team, Winning, Long

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• 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.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Fall, Rain, Dark

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