Victory Quotes - Page 24

• Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Well Being, Aggression

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• How can we preserve our aspirations and at the same time develop the toughness of mind and spirit to face the fact that there are no easy victories? One is a tough-minded recognition that the fight for a better world is a long one.

  John Nance Garner

  Perseverance, Fighting, Long

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• The People's Liberation Army is always a fighting force. Even after countrywide victory, our army will remain a fighting force during the historical period in which classes have not been abolished in our country and the imperialist system still exists in the world. On this point, there should be no misunderstanding or wavering.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Army, Fighting

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.56, Lulu.com

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• Victory is by nature superb and insulting.

  Horace

  Latin, Insulting, Superb

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• What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Struggle, Hockey

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• Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Enthusiasm For Life, Genius

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• The hardest victory is the victory over self.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Sports, Self

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.

  Tom Osborne

  Inspirational, Sports, Volleyball

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• The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in warfare, the more will be the need for engineers in field armies; in the late war there were never enough Sappers at any time. Their special tasks involved the upkeep and repair of communications; roads, bridges, railways, canals, mine sweeping. The Sappers rose to great heights in World War II and their contribution to victory was beyond all calculations.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  War, Lying, Communication

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• This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. This operation is planned as a victory, and that's the way it's going to be. We're going down there, and we're throwing everything we have into it, and we're going to make it a success.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Ghetto, Sacrifice, D Day

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• I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Good Luck, Ghetto, Sacrifice

  Address to the Officers and Men of the Third Armored Division, www.3ad.com. June 02, 1944.

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• Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Gentleman, World

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• A victory at Kursk would shine like a beacon to the world!

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Shining, World

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• Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which even greater mechanized forces will bring us victory. Therein lies the destiny of the world.

  Charles de Gaulle

  War, Lying, Destiny

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• The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory!

  Joseph Stalin

  Change, War, Fighting

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• Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us to fight through to final victory.

  George VI

  War, Fighting, People

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• We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations

  Winston Churchill

  War, World, Deliverance

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It must be a peace without victory... Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Memories, War, Mean

  Address to the Senate, January 22, 1917.

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• The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly.

  Hirohito

  War, Tumbling, World

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• In order to achieve victory you must place yourself in your opponent's skin. If you don't understand yourself, you will lose one hundred percent of the time. If you understand yourself, you will win fifty percent of the time. If you understand yourself and your opponent, you will win one hundred percent of the time.

  Tsutomu Ohshima

  Winning, Order, Skins

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• There are three ways that men get what they want; by planning, by working, and by praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning, or thinking. Then you must have well-trained troops to carry it out: that's working. But between the plan and the operation there is always an unknown. That unknown spells defeat or victory, success or failure. It is the reaction of the actors to the ordeal when it actually comes. Some people call that getting the breaks; I call it God. God has His part, or margin in everything, That's where prayer comes in.

  George S. Patton

  Prayer, Military, Army

  "The True Story of The Patton Prayer" by James H. O'Neill. Review of the News, www.pattonhq.com. October 06, 1971.

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• We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour's crucifixion. There have been victories all over the world, but wherever we look for the victor we expect to find him with his heel upon the neck of the vanquished. The wonder of Good Friday is that the victor lies vanquished by the vanquished one. We have to look deeper into the very heart and essence of things before we can see how real the victory is that thus hides itself under the guise of defeat.

  Phillips Brooks

  Friday, Real, Lying

  "Holy-days and Holidays: A Treasury of Historical Material, Sermons in Full and in Brief, Suggestive Thoughts, and Poetry, Relating to Holy Days and Holidays". Book by Edward Mark Deems (p. 150), 1902.

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• I enjoy the hunt much more than the “good life” after the victory.

  Carl Icahn

  Good Life, Enjoy, Hunts

  "Icahn on Icahn". Reuters Interview, www.breakingviews.com. March 27, 2012.

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• The life of man is a struggle on earth. But without a cross, without a struggle, we get nowhere. The victory will be ours if we continue our efforts courageously, even when at times they appear futile.

  Boniface Wimmer

  Struggle, Men, Effort

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• In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Greatness, Engineering, Achievement

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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