Quotes About Victory

September 15, 1950, MacArthur launched a brilliantly conceived and executed amphibious landing at Inchon, trapping a large North Korean force after walking ashore several times to ensure a good take for the cameras, his ever-present corncob pipe jutting from his jaw.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

In the game of chess, an experienced player may take a novice to the brink of defeat in just three moves. The fourth move can be checkmate, and the kingdom is lost.

Douglas Johnson

I see that the old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.

The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can't get away this time!

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War's very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.

Douglas MacArthur

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.

You don't win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a bitch die for his

There is no substitute for victory.

Douglas MacArthur

Charles Martel's victory at the Battle of Tours in 732 is recognised for having prevented the spread of Islam throughout Europe.

Algerian President Houari Boumedienne who in 1974 told the General Assembly of the United Nations, 'One day millions of men will leave the southern hemisphere of this planet to burst into the northern one. But not as friends. Because they will burst in to conquer, and they will conquer by populating it with their children. Victory will come to us from the wombs of our women.

It is a tendency identified by the late Australian political philosopher Kenneth Minogue as 'St George in retirement' syndrome. After slaying the dragon the brave warrior finds himself stalking the land looking for still more glorious fights. He needs his dragons. Eventually, after tiring himself out

It began to behave – in victory – as its opponents once did. When the boot was on the other foot something ugly happened.

The manner in which people and movements behave at the point of victory can be the most revealing thing about them.

Tupper, I think in The Victor. Alf was a working class, whippet-thin runner known as the Tough of the Track who won all his races despite having been up all night making briquettes to save a friend's business, missing his bus to the stadium, being knocked over mid-race by a poncy upper-class twit and losing one of his raggedy running shoes.

We need to lose less often in the fight against the bad guys. Or, at least, lose more gracefully and recover quickly.

And so in Christmas, we turn to the principalities and powers (those that are left), conduct our celebrations, and all God's people say, "Take that.