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Quotes About Victory

No one can guarantee success in war but only deserve it.
~ Winston Churchill
Veni vidi vici. (I came I saw I conquered.)
~ Julius Caesar
To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
When we declare war for peace, we may win the war and lose the battle.
~ Debasish Mridha
We often participate in a war only to lose our hearts and to gain a few pieces of land.
~ Debasish Mridha
No war has ever won in the history, because people died in every single war! Where there are deaths, there is no victory!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Basically all the religions, sciences and powers of the world boil down to a simple truth. The Best Story Teller will win in the end!
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.
~ Sun Tzu
Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
War does not determine who is right — only who is left.
~ Anonymous
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Love is a conquest! Love is war!
~ Marissa Meyer, Fairest
In the art of war, if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the approaching battles. But if you know only yourself and not the enemy, for every victory, there will also be defeat.
~ Emily Thorne
Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
They won the war but lost the peace,
~ Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin
Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!
~ Terry Pratchett, Jingo
So fair a victor, how can I help but be conquered.
~ Alice Borchardt, The Wolf King
Kakimi chertyami oni viigrali holodnuyu voinu?"This translates roughly to: "How the hell did these people win the Cold War?
~ Dave Barry, Big Trouble
Whoever won the war, would revise the history.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
one may know how to gain victory, and know not how to use it
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
The Battle of Normandy was won on the beaches of Dieppe
~ Louis Mountbatten
For no one makes aggresive war unless he excepts to win
~ Robert A. Taft