Victory Quotes - page 7

So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won. I can say that never in the last fifteen years have I had the peace of mind that I have since the election. I have almost a feeling of elation. (Herbert Hoover)
It is precisely when we help one another that we gain our victories over corruption, but the victory is assured only when we help one another with all our strength. View quote
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory but only varying degrees of defeat is a proposition that has gained increasing acceptance in the twentieth century. View quote
Kenneth Waltz
Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many a defeat before we'll have an ultimate victory in this contest with Communism. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. View quote
Albert Pike
Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price. View quote
Sun Tzu
If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete. View quote
Sun Tzu
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory. View quote
Zig Ziglar
Whatever I am today is a product of that conviction that victory through Christ is victory indeed. The rest is history. View quote
T. B. Joshua
... no battle is ever won ... they are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and Victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. (William Faulkner)
Somewhere in the world there is defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat add victory. View quote
John Steinbeck
He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat. View quote
John Steinbeck
We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire. View quote
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions. View quote
Plutarch
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. View quote
Arthur Golden
I hate the neologism "owned" for "scored a victory over". I have no intention of owning anyone, and nobody will ever own me. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Would you be free from the condemnation of the sins that are past, from the power of the temptations that are to come? Then take your stand on the Rock of Ages. Let death, let the grave, let the judgment come, the victory is Christ's and yours through Him. View quote
Dwight L. Moody
The victory of endurance born. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
I bring good tidings to our beloved Prophet Muhammad: Allah's promise and the Prophet's prophecy of our victory in Palestine over the Jews and over the oppressive Zionists has begun to come true. View quote
Khaled Mashal
Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? The century of airplanes has a right to its own music. (Claude Debussy)
The certain way to victory...lies in making everything on Imperial soil contribute to the war effort...combining the total material and spiritual strength of the nation... View quote
Yoshijirō Umezu
The aggressor too should know that the preemptive use of nuclear weapons would not insure victory. With modern detection systems and the combat readiness of the Soviet Union's strategic nuclear forces, the United States would not be able to deal a crippling blow to the socialist countries. The aggressor will not be able to evade an all-crushing retaliatory strike. View quote
Dmitriy Ustinov
While thinking when sober, our success at reaching our goals by using the First Baltic Front troops, the Memel operation, it can't be disregarded, that they [the troops] not only honorably accomplished their powerful strategic operation, but also an infusion of victory for the Soviet armed forces and an entrance into the final stages of the war. View quote
Hovhannes Bagramyan
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. View quote
Robert Collier