Quotes About Victory

So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.

Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.

It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that has already been won.

When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end.

What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.

Otaguro's bosom heaved with an ineffable surge of joy. "Every man is fighting, " he murmured. "Every man.

Once, my enemies were those I could seeNow the devil lies deep within meBut angels still nudge me, whispering follies of sinThis war is mine, and mine alone, to win.

Britain wouldn't have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.

it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.

He wins his battles by making no mistakes.Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.

A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory is won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

What comes through war is given back through war. All spoils will be retaken, all plunder will be dispersed. All victors will be defeated and every city filled with prey will be sacked in its turn.

The more you say goodbye, the stupider you'll feel when we're blitzed as bats at the victory party.

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

Matthew had won this battle—a battle in a war marked no more by yards on an open field, but by scars unseen.

He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished

A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if it does not lose.

Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled Scots wham Bruce has aften led Welcome to your gory bed Or to victorie.

They will conquer but they will not convince.

The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.

Sweet is war to those who have never experienced it.

General Taylor never surrenders.