Quotes About Victory

A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.

So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender.

Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.

Jove strikes the Titans down Not when they set about their mountain-piling But when another rock would crown the work.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

Out of the wreck I rise.

You know, we French stormed Ratisbon.

Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled,Scots wham Bruce has aften led,Welcome to your gory bedOr to victorie.Now's the day, and now's the hour;See the front o' battle lour!See approach proud Edward's power—Chains and slaverie!

"Weel done, Cutty Sark!"

Hope Springs Exulting on Triumphant Wing.

Man is a soldier and life must be fought.

Wine is strong, the king is strong, women are strong, but truth overcometh all things.

This linkage of goals was one reason why Fletcher and TF17 can rightly be said to have won the Battle of the Coral Sea. The Allied commanders simply had more achievable goals. But also, they made fewer mistakes (or at least got caught making fewer mistakes).

Nonetheless, it is reasonable to conclude that Fletcher did not lose the Battle of the Coral Sea at the tactical level, despite Morison's judgment to the contrary, because he was sufficiently cautious most of the time and sufficiently lucky when he was not. Hardly a glamorous way to win a battle, but victory has never been a beauty contest.

The internal developmental process was always connected in Lenin's mind with external events, in particular with the prospects of assistance resulting from worker revolutions in other countries. "The complete victory of socialist revolution is unthinkable in one country," he said on November 8, 1918.

It is hard to believe that Lenin would not have won the case had his health permitted him to argue it before the court of the party congress. But when the

Around 1921, however, their relationship began to show signs of strain. One contributing factor was Lenin's victory at the Tenth Congress and the resulting resolution of the intra-party conflict that had alienated him from Trotsky. These developments cleared the way for a renewal of Lenin's close ties with the man whom Stalin saw as his own arch-enemy; and rapprochement between Lenin and Trotsky could not fail to stir resentment in Stalin.

The maneuvers by which Stalin steered his faction to a conclusive victory over the other three are testimony to his extraordinary skill as a political strategist; they have been cited as a textbook example of the art of coalition strategy.

This metaphorical depiction of the Soviet situation as a great wrestling match of opposing classes was at once a manifesto of Stalin's Leninism and a clear revelation of his lifelong need to "beat" in the twofold sense of "strike" and "be victorious.

The Reds' Crimean victory of mid-November 1920 over the White army led by Baron Pyotr Wrangel marked the effective ending of the Civil War.

Earlier in the year, Trotsky had been shipped into exile in Turkey. Organized opposition was now at an end. The struggle for leadership was over, and Stalin was the victor. As if to mark this fact and formalize the outcome, his fiftieth birthday, on December 21, 1929, was officially celebrated with great fanfare. The party, over which the Stalin faction reigned supreme, saluted him on that occasion as Lenin's successor—the new vozhd'.

What "complete victory" really meant in Leninist thinking, it now transpired, was not the complete building of socialism in the USSR; it was the safety of Soviet socialism from external danger, from military intervention by the hostile capitalist encirclement.

For that, the proletariat must be victorious "at least in several other countries."[587] Only in the further progress of world revolution lay final security—and in that sense final victory—for the Soviet Revolution.