Quotes About Victory

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else.

Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.

As one Israeli said, "It's a big mistake for Israel to say it 'won' the war, when there was no war. There were no battles...no military enemy in the field."

It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.

Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished. [It., Di qui nacque che tutti li profeti armati vincero, e li disarmati rovinarono.]

In war, practice dissimulation and you will succeed.

In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

Know the enemy, know yourself; your victory will never be endangered. Know the ground, know the weather; your victory will then be total.

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat.

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.

Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.

Any victory would be dear at such a price.

in old days when the struggle between good and evil was more bitter and open than it is now. That struggle goes on all around us all the time, like two armies fighting. And sometimes one of them seems to be winning and sometimes the other, but neither has ever triumphed altogether. No ever will for there is something of each in every man.

Losing isn't as bad as not fighting at all.

But there was something she didn't understand. To him, winning was everything. And he wasn't above cheating. With

The game of football makes men out of boys. Let's see if it can make a woman out of you.

Perder no es tan malo como dejar de luchar

Sweet spoils won on a silken battlefield. Every inch belonged to him, and he would take it as he wished.

Men like Robin were never content, and men like Robin were all she would ever love, grasping, ambitious reflections of herself... He would begin to plot and scheme behind her back, building up a court faction... To emerge from that final conflict as the victor, it would be necessary to kill him. And she knew she was capable of doing it-- it was as simple as that.