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Quotes About Victory

Despite what the last fifty years of American policy would suggest, 'They hit us so we're hitting back' is not a military strategy. I was taught that successful wars are waged for measurable goals. What's the goal here? I'd really like to know. What does victory look like?
~ Marcus Sakey
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Let arms yield to the toga, the laurel crown to praise.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Satan seeks to blind us with his lies about God. Instead of the freedom and victory that can be ours, he wants us to be defeated and in bondage. He delights in deceiving us about the character of our God and wants us to believe that God doesn't love us, that He is not good, not in control, not fair, not caring, and any other lie that he can convince us to believe.
~ Unknown
My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I shall attack.
~ Unknown
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
~ Margaret Drabble
More than whimsy, joy is a weapon we use to fight life's battles.
~ Margaret Feinberg
In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
~ Margaret Halsey
Anyone who falls into your hands falls to your sword!
~ Margaret MacMillan
Stamp, your name is to be Laura. I'm sharing my name with you. I'm putting my power into you and you must do my work. Don't listen to anyone but me. You are to be my command laid on my enemy. you'll make a hole in him through which he'll drip away until he runs dry. As he drips out darkness, we'll smile together, me inside, you outside. We'll crush him between our smiles.
~ Margaret Mahy
Margaret Murphy
~ Unknown
Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
~ Margaret Thatcher
It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
~ Margaret Thatcher
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
~ Margaret Thatcher
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
~ Margaret Thatcher
I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.
~ Margaret Thatcher
I wasn't lucky, I deserved it.
~ Margaret Thatcher
They might have beaten us at our national sport, but we managed to beat them at their national sport twice in the 20th century. [Replying to Kenneth Clarke, who said, "Isn't it terrible about losing to the Germans at our national sport?" when England lost to Germany in the 1990 FIFA World Cup Semi-final.]
~ Margaret Thatcher
Defeat? I do not recognise the meaning of the word.
~ Margaret Thatcher
The battle of the sexes and you're winning hands down.
~ Margaret Way
So gloriously confident, so new to life you could conquer the world.
~ Margaret Way
and someday, fat innkeepers will bow to me.
~ Margaret Weis
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~ Unknown