Quotes About Victory

The guy did okay for himself.

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In most history, success is over-represented, for the victors out-write the losers. In the history of networks, the opposite often applies. Successful networks evade public attention; unsuccessful ones attract it, and it is their notoriety, rather than their achievement, that leads to their over-representation.

Salvo unas cuantas excepciones, la élite política británica, a diferencia de la élite intelectual mayoritariamente socialista, encontró muy difícil aceptar que el imperio tenía que desaparecer como precio a pagar por la victoria.

United States failed to match its greatly enhanced economic importance with a commensurate geopolitical role.84 Power remained disproportionately in the hands of the victorious European empires, the British and the French, but both were so constrained fiscally and domestically that they could not preserve the fruits of their victory.

At Tsushima on May 27–28, 1905, the Japanese fleet under Admiral T?g? Heihachir? sent two-thirds of the Russian fleet – 147,000 tons of naval hardware and nearly 50,000 sailors – to the bottom of the Korea Strait.

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Hence it comes that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed.

I certainly believe this: that it is better to be impetuous than cautious, because Fortune is a woman, and if you want to keep her under it is necessary to beat her and force her down. It is clear that she more often allows herself to be won over by impetuous men than by those who proceed coldly. And so, like a woman, Fortune is always the friend of young men, for they are less cautious, more ferocious, and command her with more audacity.

when they depend upon their own resources and can employ force, they seldom fail. Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force.

The wise prince, therefore, has always avoided these arms and turned to his own and has been willing rather to lose with them than to conquer with the others, not deeming that a real victory which is gained with the arms of others.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

no es victoria verdadera la que se obtiene con armas ajenas.

Li quali modi possono fare acquistare imperio, ma non gloria.

Justa es la guerra para quienes es necesaria, y santas las armas cuando son la única esperanza», cita de Tito Livio IX, 1.

Por ello, todo príncipe prudente ha desechado estas tropas y se ha refugiado en las propias, y ha preferido perder con las suyas a vencer con las otras, considerando que no es victoria verdadera la que se obtiene con armas ajenas.

In short, with mercenaries your greatest danger is from their inertness and cowardice, with auxiliaries from their valour. Wise Princes, therefore, have always eschewed these arms, and trusted rather to their own, and have preferred defeat with the latter to victory with the former, counting that as no true victory which is gained by foreign aid.

La primera causa que haría a un príncipe perder el suyo, sería abandonar el arte de la guerra, como la causa que hace adquirir un reino al que no lo tenía

In exemplis ci sono li Spartani e li Romani. Li Spartani tennono Atene e Tebe creandovi uno stato di pochi; tamen le riperderono. Romani, per tenere Capua Cartagine e Numanzia, le disfeciono, e non le perderono

Por ello, todo príncipe prudente ha desechado estas tropas y se ha refugiado en las propias, y ha preferido perder con las suyas a vencer con las otras, considerando que no es victoria verdadera la que se obtiene con armas ajenas. No

You get the title, you defend it. That's the motto.

The only mountain that I would still like to climb: I'd like to break 85.

We call 'Ain't No Mountain' the golden egg that landed us at Motown.