First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
Interpretation
Achieve success before strategizing your next actions.
This quote by Horatio Nelson emphasizes the importance of first achieving victory in any endeavor before determining how to best utilize that success. It suggests that once you have succeeded, it is crucial to plan and act effectively to capitalize on that achievement, ensuring that your efforts lead to even greater results.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges in business.
Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman, as you do the devil.
Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.
To do nothing was disgraceful; therefore I made use of my understanding.
Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.
In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
I'm sure there are many more people who can identify with failure and hardship in life than with the success of an Alexander Hamilton or a John D. Rockefeller.
The one thing you can do for sure is push the luck on your side
Exceptional people convert life's setbacks into future successes.
I never competed against athletes. I competed against perfection.
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Trust me, if you're working on a $70 million movie and you're the last guy, you feel all that weight on your shoulders.
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