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Quotes About Victory

I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
~ Ralph Bakshi
As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.
~ James Forrestal
I have worked closely with many of our county commissioners, mayors, local transportation officials, and others to determine project needs in the 18th District, and they deserve a great deal of thanks for today's victory on the House floor.
~ Bob Ney
There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American people, which should be our first priority.
~ John Breaux
The fight ended. For both was victory. For both there was defeat.
~ Anna Wickham
My victory is your victory. My victory is the victory of a unified party, a party that wants to propose to the Quebec people a country that is free and a country that is independent.
~ Pauline Marois
I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing.
~ Joan Didion
I guess because I was on the 'Early Show' for so many years, any little victory here is something kind of new for me.
~ Julie Chen
I think England are probably not as streetwise as plenty of other teams. The other top teams know how to keep a victory or do certain things to hang on to leads or get back in games. They're a lot more streetwise than us. I think as a nation we are very honest, we try to win the right way.
~ Michael Owen
You know some people are all about talk. I'm about results. Every victory, every conservative victory, I've had, I've had to bleed and fight to accomplish it, always adhering to our conservative principles, and refusing to take no for an answer.
~ David Dewhurst
While a defeat for Obamacare in the Court would be nice, the defeat of President Obama at the polls on November 6 is crucial. If electoral victory is achieved, Obamacare can and will be repealed - and more judges of a constitutionalist persuasion will be appointed by the next president.
~ Bill Kristol
I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.
~ Emanuel Steward
You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory.
~ James Larkin
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.
~ Herman Gorter
In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.
~ Hassan Nasrallah
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.
~ Philip Gibbs
One victory more or less doesn't make the difference for me now.
~ Hermann Maier
In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ.
~ Kenneth Scott Latourette
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
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.
~ Ryan Seacrest
One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.
~ Eric Alterman
I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.
~ Manny Pacquiao
This was a special week and a special victory for me. I played some great tennis.
~ Marin Cilic
I'm proud that Colorado delivered a victory to Barack Obama in 2008 and we will do so again in 2012.
~ Ken Salazar