Quotes About Victory

People do keep on talking about wanting a war so that their side will win. But ultimately all they really want is for their side to be a bit better off. Nobody wishes for their side to triumph completely.

Nothing went boom or splat. Irene was still alive and moving freely. She decided to call her mission a total success so far.

Whatever radical wagers we choose to make in the face of capitalism, liberalism, and their occasional fascist and totalitarian guises, there is a very real possibility that we make them in vain. There is no certain victory, even in the longest run or the latest instance—or if there is, it is presently unimaginable. No matter how long and hard the path, it may still end in disaster. This only seems to make Keynesianism more sensible than ever.

The Circus Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing on Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war.

Why is it so important to attack your competitors during a tornado instead of serve your customers? Why, specifically, was Larry Ellison once quoted as saying, citing Genghis Khan, "It is not enough that we win—all others must lose"?

Since every nation tends to believe that each of its past wars was fought in self-defence, a drawn war is more likely to be remembered as a victory.

On election day, Nixon was elected president with 43.4 percent of the vote to Humphrey's 42.7 percent, a margin of just seven-tenths of 1 percent. Clandestine maneuvering may have helped him win that narrow victory—"Nixon probably would not be president if it were not for [President] Thieu," his speechwriter William Safire once admitted—but Nixon's fear that the maneuvering might someday be exposed would eventually help bring about his undoing.

The wrastling for this world axeth a fal.

And theron heng a brooch of gold ful sheene,On which ther was first write a crowned A,And after Amor vincit omnia.

Amor vincit omnia

Boog et al, 2001, p.1117).

I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life

Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.

The United States could well declare unilaterally that this stage of the Vietnam war is over—that we have "won" in the sense that our Armed Forces are in control of most of the field and no potential enemy is in a position to establish its authority over South Vietnam.

Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

I will cling to the old rugged cross,And exchange it some day for a crown.

Hope is despair, overcome.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

They were the stumbling blocks, not MacArthur.

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.

In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.

However, in view of the verb used, it appears that the realm of death is the aggressor, attacking the church 49 The meaning then would be that when men and women have been brought into the salvation of the Kingdom of God through the mission of the church, the gates of death will be unable to prevail in their effort to swallow them up.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.