Quotes About Victory

Stuart Woods

Stuart Woods

Then I mouthed the sweetest four words in the English language: I told you so.

Bombay is both, the beautiful parts and the ugly parts, fighting block by block, to the death, for victory.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is noise before defeat.

What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.

One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.

Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.

Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat

Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory;  show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat.

You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.

It is the unemotional, reserved, calm, detached warrior who wins, not the hothead seeking vengeance and not the ambitious seeker of fortune.

The Art of War is self-explanatory

Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.

In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.

It is best to keep one's own state intact; to crush the enemy's state is only second best.