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Quotes About Victory

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
~ Henry Kissinger
Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
~ Henry Kissinger
Where Western strategists reflect on the means to assemble superior power at the decisive point, Sun Tzu addresses the means of building a dominant political and psychological position, such that the outcome of a conflict becomes a foregone conclusion. Western strategists test their maxims by victories in battles; Sun Tzu tests by victories where battles have become unnecessary.
~ Henry Kissinger
For Sun Tzu, victory is not simply the triumph of armed forces. Instead, it is the achievement of the ultimate political objectives that the military clash was intended to secure.
~ Henry Kissinger
Good character does not assure worldly success, or triumph in statecraft, but it does provide firm grounding in victory and consolation in failure.
~ Henry Kissinger
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
~ Henry Kissinger
Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
I have found a way to beat myself I win by losing, something like that I'm told that I'm stupid So ok, I'll be stupid If I can't register the pain Then it's not there I'm not so stupid after all I'll show them
~ Henry Rollins
The past is the Jabberwock. Forget not the fallen, but beware the jaws and claws. With your vorpal blade going snicker-snack, kill the fucker, as you go galumphing on.
~ Henry Rollins
I want to be that which overcomes itself Listening to them makes me weak and small I watch them go out and fuck each other They tell me that I'm crazy The years scar me I don't want a smooth ride I want the crushing wheel
~ Henry Rollins
If you're finding life to be the one thing that's trying to kill you, I want you to stay alive to rise with the sun and fight back.
~ Henry Rollins
Something attempted, something done,Has earned a night's repose.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is an inherent and absolute authority in all truth, which makes it, in the end, unconquerable and victorious. The truth is mighty, and will prevail. What is founded on error, has rottenness for its corner-stone; and although it may temporarily be upheld by foreign aid, yet, deserted by its supporters, it always finally tumbles to the ground.
~ HENRY WHITNEY BELLOWS
When we understand the source of evils, and are alive to their existence, they are already half conquered.
~ HENRY WHITNEY BELLOWS
Numai moartea e o for?? la fel de absolut?, dar în lupta de veacuri dintre aceste dou? puteri, dragostea este cea care ia moartea de gât, îi pune genunchiul în piept, o bate ziua È™i noaptea, o învinge în fiecare prim?var?, o urm?reÈ™te pas cu pas È™i-n fiecare groap? pe care aceasta o sap?, dragostea arunc? s?mânÈ›a unei vieÈ›i noi.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
Himmlisch ist's, wenn ich bezwugen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nicht gelungen, Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir!"* *"Splendid if I overcome My earthy passion, But if I succeed not, Still I have known happiness!
~ Leo Tolstoy
Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve victory over other people, you will conquer yourself. —HENRI AMIEL
~ Leo Tolstoy
Well, so you're pleased with your day. And so am I. First, I solved two chess problems, one of them a very nice one — it opens with a pawn. I'll show you.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The profoundest and most excellent dispositions and orders seem very bad, and every learned militarist criticizes them with looks of importance, when they relate to a battle that has been lost, and the very worst dispositions and orders seem very good, and serious people fill whole volumes to demonstrate their merits, when they relate to a battle that has been won.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Como se através de uma janela aberta num quarto abafado soprasse de repente um ar fresco do campo, assim também soprou, no abatido estado-maior de Kutúzov, a mocidade, a energia e a convicção da vitória que vinham daquela juventude radiosa que chegara a galope.
~ Leo Tolstoy
They come together, like tomorrow, to kill each other they slaughter and maim tens of thousands of men, and the they say their prayers of thanksgiving of having slaughtered so many people (inflating the numbers), and proclaim victory, supposing that the more people slaughtered, the greater the merit How God does look down and listen to them!
~ Leo Tolstoy
the winning of battles does not necessarily lead to conquest,
~ Leo Tolstoy
Debes entrenar mucho más duro que el enemigo que está intentando acabar contigo. Todo el descanso que necesitas, lo tendrás en tu lecho de muerte
~ Leon Degrelle