Quotes About Victory

In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you're not afraid of the dark.

To win a moral victory at the expense of your sanity is dumb.

the reward for getting through life is getting life itself.

Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.

You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.

The best revenge in the world is success.

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

So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side

Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result is victory, then you must not fight, even at the ruler's bidding.

Being unconquerable lies with yourself; being conquerable lies with your enemy.

The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.

What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

Therefore the skilful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first then seek to win.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.