Quotes About Victory

THE STORM OF WAR A NEW HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Disaster and treating 'those two impostors just the same'. She added, 'Remember that

Winning is not enough if one doesn't take advantage of success.

Between a battle lost and a battle won,' Napoleon had said on the eve of the battle of Leipzig, 'the distance is immense and there stand empires.

Nelson, the Bible and the island of

The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.

The Jabberwocky': 'Calloo! Callay! O frabjous day! And so he chortled in his joy.

I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon

Rule one on page one of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow." ' Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, House of Lords, May 1962

I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired.

He accepted it, walked over to the monster, and stabbed it a dozen times. "Dead," he pronounced, and walked back over.

There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning. (Warren Buffett, estimated 'worth' $44 billion, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, quoted in the New York Times, 26 November 2006)1

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Are you better on your worst day to beat your opponent on their best?

It was easy to imagine longbowmen cutting their staves from that tree before marching off to Crecy and Agincourt, and still the job was not done, still the French needed to be reminded of their essential inferiority – perhaps they were just slow learners. The

manticore, wyvern, fogler, aeschna, ilyocoris, chimera, leshy, vampire, ghoul, graveir, werewolf, giant scorpion, striga, black annis, kikimora, vypper…so many I've killed.

The sunrise, however, represents another victory in the fight for life, a new day, the continuation of existence.

winning battles by means of a rapid escape from the battlefield is permissible from the point of view of most military doctrines. The

Progress," said Yarpen Zigrin amidst the silence, "will eventually light up the darkness. The darkness will yield before the light. But not right away. And definitely not without a fight.

Victory should look thus: the defeated are compelled to buy goods manufactured by the victors. Why, they do it willingly, because the victors' goods are better and cheaper. The victors' currency is stronger than the currency of the defeated, and the vanquished trust it much more than their own. Do you understand me, Baron Fitz-Oesterlen? Are you beginning slowly to differentiate the victors from the vanquished? Do you comprehend whom woe actually betides?

Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.

Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly. My decisions come quickly, and they lead to victory.

I've got to be willing to enter into and do battle with the confusion in order to reach the victory on the other side. It's like, I am here, confusion is in front of me, and just beyond confusion waits the answer or skill I need to take my life in a new and incredible direction.

greatness. It is true: an army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep! I am a person of action.