#victor

Somebody ask me, 'Alberto, why you not race in Torino?' I finished my career here in 1998, the 15 of March which was my last victory. ↗

— Alberto Tomba

#career #finished #here #i #last

The victor belongs to the spoils. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#spoils #victor

The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#campaign #dollars #group #half #him

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary. ↗

— Ken Follett

#dramatic #felt #free #long #next

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#first #found #great #great men #i

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#blind #consciousness #forces #himself #historic

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men? ↗

— Lao Tzu

#delight #how #man #men #rejoice

Go forth a conqueror and win great victories. ↗

— Virgil

#forth #go #great #victories #win

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory. ↗

— J. Donald Walters

#confronting #courageously #denial #escape #find

I am the elected president of Liberia, not Ellen Sirleaf. They stole my victory, and I am here to say loud and clear that I am the winner of the elections. ↗

— George Weah

#clear #elected #elections #ellen #here