Quotes About Victory

The treasury is based upon mining, the army upon the treasury; he who has army and treasury may conquer the whole wide earth.

The question of why one player won a game rather than another is different from the question of how hard the game is to play.

As a general principle, when an enemy's army comes, it seeks some profit. Now if they come and find the prospect of death instead, they will consider running away the most profitable thing to do. When all one's enemies consider running to be the most profitable thing to do, no blades will cross. This is the most essential point in military matters.57

Until Washington crossed the Delaware, the triumph of the old order seemed inevitable. Thereafter, things would never be the same again.

Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning.

The Revsons apparently did not like a young psychologist named Joyce Brothers, who appeared as an expert on boxing. Thus the questions given her were exceptionally hard—they even asked her the names of referees—in the desire to get her off the show; their strategy had no effect: She became the second person to win $64,000.)

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

Reluctance to go for the jugular and willingness to accept defeat can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you are reluctant to fight, you are inevitably headed toward defeat when the other side is relentless and despises you. It is only for those who persist in the battle and never let up that the possibility of changing the result comes into view. In

Amidst all this bustle it is not reason, which carries the prize, but eloquence; and no man needs ever despair of gaining proselytes to the most extravagant hypothesis, who has art enough to represent it in any favourable colours. The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, drummers, and musicians of the army.

The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, drummers, and musicians of the army.

The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters

There is not a single true chess player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as gambit games.

IN 1944 ROMMEL was already a living legend. He was known as a great commander in the field, distinguished by that rare quality, a feeling for the battle. Bold, dashing and handsome, he was relentless in combat, magnanimous in victory and gracious to his vanquished enemies. He seemed invincible. Where he was, there was victory: he attacked like a tornado, and even when he withdrew, his enemies followed very gingerly indeed.

King remarked, thinking back to Montgomery four years earlier. "If there is one lesson experience has taught us … it is that when you have found by the help of God a correct course, a morally sound objective, you do not equivocate, you do not retreat—you struggle to win a victory.

Several weeks later, President Eisenhower complained to reporters that Nixon had lost simply because of a "couple of phone calls.

Manziel's career was one in which he was continuously held up as an example of an all-American kid fighting to lead his team toward victory.

Focus less on whether or not you win in the end. You still have to be sharp; that's why you prepare well. But once you've prepared, you need to calm down. And you can. You know why? Because it really doesn't matter that much.

They locked her up and kept trying to break her. But she kept coming back, and do you know what I think?" "No." "She got stronger each time.

We are fooled by the winners because the winners can rewrite history.

I'll NEVER be beaten!

Germans needed to reduce their casualties "if we do not intend to win ourselves to death.

David M. Glantz

David M. Glantz

the nation faced a constitutional crisis in which both major presidential candidates—Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden—claimed victory in the 1876 election, raising concerns about who would govern the Republic.