Won Quotes

You have won battles without cannon, crossed rivers without bridges, made forced marches without shoes, camped without brandy and often without bread. Soldiers of liberty, only republican phalanxes [infantry troops] could have endured what you have endured.

They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest-until the victory is won.

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general the more he contributes in maneuver the less he demands in slaughter.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Wars are not won by evacuations.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets.

A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.

Who have not led the holy life nor riches won while young, they linger on as aged cranes around a fished-out pond.

An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.

We shall only talk of peace when we have won the war. The Jewish capitalist world will not survive the twentieth century.

Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.