Quotes About Victory

The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men. The strategist makes small things into big things, like building a great Buddha from a one foot model.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee, I will be willing to go home!

It is better to win the peace and to lose the war.

War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost.

War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

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

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

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

Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles

World War II was a must win.

I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.

We may be annihilated, but we cannot be conquered.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble.

Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake.

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!

When I have won a victory I do not repeat my tactics but respond to circumstances in an infinite variety of ways.