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Quotes About Victory

No b****** ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb b****** die for his country.
~ George S. Patton
No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.
~ George S. Patton Jr.
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
~ George S. Patton Jr.
To be a successful soldier, you must know history.
~ George S. Patton Jr.
I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
~ George S. Patton Jr.
Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more
~ George S. Patton Jr.
Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.
~ George S. Patton Jr.
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
~ George Santayana
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
~ George Santayana
To knock a thing down when it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight of the blood.
~ George Santayana
Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhiliration of victory.
~ George Smith Patton, Jr.
We will not waver we will not tire we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.
~ George W. Bush
Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him! (said after capture of Saddam)
~ George W. Bush, BBC/CNN
On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait, and waiting--died
~ George W. Cecil
Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive. And with it, everything honorable and glorious.
~ George Washington
the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
~ George Washington
Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.
~ George Whitefield
Lost causes may be the best causes—they usually are—but once lost they are never won.
~ George Woodcock
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
~ Georges Clemenceau
Does it not sometimes happen in life that our actions are solely for an enemy, so as to stand up to him, to confound him, to humiliate him by a finer effort or a more difficult victory? Without him we might perhaps give up. Having an enemy stimulates us, gives us strength. In him we hope to defeat the universe and the malevolence of fate.
~ Georges Rodenbach
I can tell you, from a fund of experience, that one can be taken down from the rack, closer to death than to life—and then still have the most exquisite joys ahead of one.
~ Gerald Clarke
when rightly practiced, asceticism is the human component of the mysterious incarnate intimacy of human intention and divine grace which holds the only real hope of victory over attachment. Like
~ Gerald G. May
The facts of grace are simple: grace always exists, it is always available, it is always good, and it is always victorious. For me, living into grace means trying to act on the basis of these facts. I do not do well at it. My
~ Gerald G. May
If you want to know a king, see how he treats his defeated foes. All are gracious to their equals; one in a thousand is gracious to an enemy he has conquered.
~ Gerald Morris