“As a revolutionary people, we Americans won a probable victory over the best and biggest army in the world because we learned to fight from the Indians. You can do a lot of damage with a Kentucky rifle from behind a tree. You don't put on a peaked hat and a red coat and white leggings and crossed white bandoleers with a big silver buckle in the center of the X and march uphill into a line of Howitzers loaded with chain and chopped horseshoes.” PeopleWorldBigsFightingCan DoLinesWhiteBehindsTreeVictoryRedArmyChainsRevolutionaryDamageHatsSilverMarchCoatsLoadedRiflesKentuckyBucklesLeggingsHorseshoes Author:James Lee
“Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.” MenWayLinesEnemyFateVictoryArrowsHail Author:Dan Simmons
“The so-called new Russian man is characterized mainly by his complete exhaustion. You may find yourself wondering if he has the strength to enjoy his new-found freedom. He is like a long-distance runner who, on reaching the finishing line, is incapable even of raising his hands in a gesture of victory.” IfsMenMayLongHandsFoundEnjoyLinesWonderVictoryDistanceReachingFinding YourselfGesturesIncapableRunnersFinishingExhaustionLong DistanceDistance Runner Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski
“Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.” HumanityPeaceProcessLinesWorkDecisionProductsVictoryAchievementFinalsDefinitionsCommandFixedFinishingDeadlineNever EndingUbuntuPeace JusticeAchieving Peace Author:Oscar Hammerstein II
“In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to convention, constraint, oppression. Dionysus is energy unbound, mad, callous, destructive, wasteful. Apollo is law, history, tradition, the dignity and safety of custom and form. Dionysus is the new, exhilarating but rude, sweeping all away to begin again. Apollo is a tyrant, Dionysus is a vandal.” FormLawEnergyLinesVictoryCivilizationTraditionDignitySafetyMadWestStriveBoundariesOppressionDestructiveCustomsTyrantsConventionsRudeApolloConstraintsSweepingExhilaratingBegin AgainCallousDionysusUnboundVandals Book:Sexual Personae Source: Sexual Personae
“At 10 minutes to seven on a dark, cool evening in Mexico City in 1968, John Stephen Akwari of Tanzania painfully hobbled into the Olympic Stadium-the last man to finish the marathon. The winner had already been crowned, and the victory ceremony was long finished. So the stadium was almost empty and Akwari - alone, his leg bloody and bandaged - struggled to circle the track to the finish line. When asked why he had continued the grueling struggle, the young man from Tanzania answered softly: My country did not send me 9,000 miles to start the race. They sent me 9,000 miles to finish the race.” MenLongCountryLastsYoungLinesDarkRaceCitiesStruggleMinutesVictoryEmptySevenTrackLegsFinishedMilesCirclesEveningWinnerYoung ManMexicoBloodyCeremonyMarathonStadiumsFinish LineMexico CityTanzania Author:Walter Inglis Anderson
“Being a White Sox fan meant measuring victory in terms of defeat. A 6-5 defeat was a good day. A big rally was Wally Moses doubling down the right- field line.” BigsTermLinesWhiteFansFieldsVictoryDefeatGood DayMosesMeasuring Author:Jean Shepherd
“But from another, deeper perspective: we shouldn't involve outselves in lines of development where the ultimate victory condition is emulating dead people. There's no appeal in that. It's bad for us. That kind of inherent mournfulness is just not a good way to be human.” PeopleWayHumansKindLinesConditionsPerspectiveDevelopmentVictoryUltimateDeeperAppealsInherentGood WayDead People Author:Bruce Sterling
“I think it's fair to say you can't predict a straight line to victory. You know, there'll be good days and bad days along the way.” ThinkingKnowsWayLinesVictoryFairsBe GoodGood DayBad DayStraight LinesGood Days And Bad Days Author:Dick Cheney
“It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.” PeopleInspirationalLeadershipLinesBehindsLeaderVisionNiceFrontsDangerVictoryPoliticianAppreciateAppreciationCelebrateCelebrationInsperationalNice ThingsWorld LeaderBusiness LeadershipBeing A LeaderInspiring LeaderEffective LeadershipLeadership By Famous LeadersBest LeaderMotivational LeadershipServant LeadershipGreatest LeadershipFuture LeadersOutstanding LeadershipPowerful LeadersOutstanding LeadersFrontlineBecoming A LeaderAppreciate People Author:Nelson Mandela
“Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word.” IfsWantLinesSeriousVictoryDestructionOur WordsWant To Be Happy Author:Joyce Meyer
“Crossing the starting line may be an act of courage, but crossing the finish line is an act of faith. Faith is what kepes us going when nothing else will. Faith is the emotion that will give you victory over your past, the demons in your soul, & all of those voices that tell you what you can & cannot do & can & cannot be.” GivingMaySoulPastVoiceLinesEmotionVictoryStartingYour SoulDemonYour PastCrossingsFinish LineActs Of Courage Author:John Bingham
“It seemed a place where heroes could fitly feast after victory, where weary harvesters could line up in scores along the table and keep their Harvest Home with mirth and song, or where two or three friends of simple tastes could sit about as they pleased and eat and smoke and talk in comfort and contentment.” TwoHomeSongThreeLinesSimpleHeroVictoryComfortTasteTablesSmokeScoreContentmentWearyHarvestMirthThree Friends Book:The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition Source: The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition
“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.” MayLittlesTodayAbleEvilInterestLinesLossDecisionEnemyImpossibleMonthsGoes OnVictoryImportanceIncreaseInfiniteLustGood And EvilCaptureSmallestIndulgenceStrategicCompoundsRailwayRidgesCompound Interest Author:C. S. Lewis
“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.” LongLightMotivationalSuccessFightingLostLinesBehindsHard WorkVictoryDanceAthleteWitnessBoxingMotivational SportsMartial ArtsGymFar AwayBad AssInspirational SportsAthleticBodybuildingGreat SportsBest SportsGreatest SportsBest AthleteGreat AthleteGreat Inspirational SportsFamous BoxerGreatest AthleteFighting OnGreat BoxingInspiring AthleteBoxing ChampionsBodybuilding TrainingGreatest VictoryStrength TrainingMotivational DanceCassius ClayMotivational BodybuildingSports TrainingBoxing MotivationalGreat AthleticFamous Hard WorkingGym WorkoutBoxing RingMotivational TrainingWill To FightGym MotivationChampions Are MadeGym TrainingVictory InspirationalInspirational TrainingPositive Training Author:Muhammad Ali
“Our success has not been a continual series of victories. We have had a number of devastating setbacks; how these are handled is the making of a great team... winning does not happen in straight lines.” DoeHappensWinningSportsLinesNumbersTeamVictorySeriesSetbackStraight LinesGreat TeamTeam Winning Author:Clive Woodward
“Winning does not always mean coming in first...real victory is in arriving at the finish line with no regrets because you know you've gone all out.” KnowsFirstsMeanDoeRealWinningSportsLinesGoneRegretVictoryCancerInspirational SportsNo RegretsArrivingFinish LineReal Victory Author:Apolo Ohno
“When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I at once sent word, however, to have it stopped. The Confederates were now our prisoners, and we did not want to exult over their downfall.” MenWantFirstsWarLinesVictoryHonorNewsHundredGunSurrenderCivil WarPrisonerDownfallFiringSaluteConfederate Book:Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant Source: Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
“Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace. Better than a hundred hollow lines Is one line of the dharma, bringing peace. It is better to conquer yourself Than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, Not by angels or by demons, Heaven or hell.” WinningHeavenLinesHellTakenMeditationVictoryBattleThousandHundredAngelConquerDemonVersesHollowOne WordDharmaOne LineDhammapadaHeaven Or HellBringing Peace Author:Gautama Buddha
“Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.” ArtLinesVictoryConquerWrestlingStrokes Author:Maria Sibylla Merian
“When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.” InspirationalMotivationLinesEffortCourageFailureFineNeededVictoryDefeatExtrasSuccess And FailureDiscouragementDiscerningExtra Effort Author:Elbert Hubbard