Quotes About Victory

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William W. Johnstone

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

Ki gy?z? Mi az: gy?zni? A legbiztosabb vereség a gy?zelem.

Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before you; and when your strength begins to fail, and your spirits are well nigh exhausted, let the animating view rekindle your resolution, and call forth in renewed vigour the fainting energies of your soul.

Who, doomed to go in company with pain,And fear, and bloodshed, miserable train!Turns his necessity to glorious gain.

There were no decisive moments or clear-cut victories. Rather, the American pressure put the German fighters in a meat grinder battle of attrition both in terms of pilots and of matériel. It was the cumulative effect of that intense pressure that in the final analysis enabled the Western Powers to gain air superiority over Europe; that achievement must be counted among the decisive victories of World War II.

In baseball, you respect the team you play, the guys on the other side. That's how the game works. Play to win but appreciate the opposition.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Nobody roots for Goliath.

To be defeated by superior numbers, that was only physical. To give up your spirit, that truly would be death. He

In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.

We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end.

What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars England—he should have said Britain, of course—always wins one battle—the last.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.