Quotes about Victory

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat

Greatness comes only to those who seek not how to avoid obstacles, but how to overcome them.

We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord.

Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission and in the end it shall carry you.

by patience and true humility we become stronger than all our enemies.

That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.

Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.

Seeing my name in the newspapers after winning the national junior championship motivated me to win more medals and I have never looked back since then.

In France, sometimes, you have some players or coaches say, 'If we go there, and we come back with one point, it's okay.' Here? No chance of this! Everybody wants to win. I think every team is playing to win matches, so the game is hard and fast, intensive. I really like the Bundesliga for that.

One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.