If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.
~By Emil Zatopek ~
Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.
~By Neil Sheehan ~
In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.
~By Hans Frank ~
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
If it is widely assumed that the new President cannot move forward simply because of a narrow victory, there can easily develop a sense of unease and uncertainty, adversely affecting every sector of American society, our economy and the perception of other nations.
~By Richard V. Allen ~
A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.
~By Frank Shorter ~
Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.
~By Rose Schneiderman ~
Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
~By Ludwig von Mises ~
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it.
~By Jacques Delors ~
It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.
~By Philip Gibbs ~
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
~By William McKinley ~
My winning is getting to perform. That's my victory.
~By Kelly Clarkson ~
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
~By Diane Arbus ~
It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.
~By John Phillips ~
This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.
~By Albert Szent Gyorgyi ~
Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.
~By Knute Rockne ~
As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.
~By James Forrestal ~
We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory.
~By J. D. Hayworth ~
The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.
~By Henry Walter Bates ~
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
~By Abu Bakr ~
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
~By Lucretius ~
The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants.
~By Herman Gorter ~
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
~By Douglas Haig ~
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.
~By David Sarnoff ~
There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
~By Vash Young ~
Victory belong to the most persevering.
~By Andre Norton ~
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
~By Douglas MacArthur ~
At least is was a victory and at least we won.
~By Bobby Moore ~
The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory.
~By Martina Hingis ~
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
Newt Gingrich had to work hard - getting Republican candidates to sign the Contract with America - to nationalize the election that swept Republicans to victory in 1994. A Democratic anti-Tea Party campaign would do that for the Republicans - nationalize the election, gratis - in 2010.
~By Charles Krauthammer ~
Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom.
~By Ahmed Yassin ~
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
~By Herbert Kaufman ~
The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
~By George S. Patton ~
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
~By Sun Tzu ~
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.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
The smile of God is victory.
~By John Greenleaf Whittier ~
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
~By Og Mandino ~
The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
~By Ida B. Wells ~
When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
~By George Savile ~
You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory.
~By James Larkin ~
It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.
~By Martha Gellhorn ~
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
This has been a great victory for the Venezuelan people.
~By Hugo Chavez ~
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
~By Herodotus ~
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
~By Winston Churchill ~
In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.
~By John Hume ~
You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
~By Christy Mathewson ~
In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.
~By Ernie Pyle ~
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
~By Pat Buchanan ~
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement.
~By Hans Frank ~
My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.
~By James Longstreet ~
The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.
~By Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ~
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
~By Aristotle ~
No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
~By Al Gore ~
Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
~By Galeazzo Ciano ~
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
~By George S. Patton ~
The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.
~By Damon Runyon ~
My favorite actress of all times is Bette Davis in Dark Victory. I have seen it six or seven times, and I still cry.
~By Bettie Page ~
I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.
~By Pierre Laval ~
We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.
~By Bruce Jenner ~
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.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
When running to fill a time quota, however, the reverse happens. You can't make that time pass any faster by rushing, so you settle into a pace that feels right to you at the moment. Each minute above a quota is a little victory.
~By Joe Henderson ~
If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory.
~By John Curtin ~
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
~By Bill Russell ~
How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?
~By Rene Cassin ~
There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.
~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
We chose this road, and will end with martyrdom or victory.
~By Ahmed Yassin ~
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.
~By John T. Flynn ~
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
~By Dick Gregory ~
In war there is no substitute for victory.
~By Douglas MacArthur ~
In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.
~By Pierre Laval ~
PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.
~By Bea Arthur ~
Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.
~By Abu Bakar Bashir ~
Feed the troops on victory.
~By John Monash ~
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty.
~By Timothy Murphy ~
Victory is the only option. And we will be victorious in Iraq.
~By Andrew Card ~
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
~By Karel Capek ~
In politics, victory is never total.
~By Donald Freed ~
I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.
~By Anthony Hamilton ~
We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.
~By Ryan Seacrest ~
In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory.
~By Isoroku Yamamoto ~
The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.
~By Charles de Secondat ~
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
~By George Santayana ~
On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
The harder the battle the sweet of jah victory.
~By Bob Marley ~
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