Victory Quotes - Page 25

• To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Military, Winning

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• The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Military, War, Space

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.49, Verso

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• To conquer the command in the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat.

  Giulio Douhet

  Military, Mean, Air

  General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.51, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Fighting, Odds Against You

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, Warrior, Mma

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• Urge all of your men to pray, not alone in church, but everywhere. Pray when driving. Pray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray with others. Pray by night and pray by day. Pray for the cessation of immoderate rains, for good weather for Battle.Pray for the defeat of our wicked enemy whose banner is injustice and whose good is oppression. Pray for victory. Pray for our Army, and Pray for Peace. We must march together, all out for God.

  George S. Patton

  Military, Rain, Army

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• Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious army must be wiped out. Niether side is glorious. On either side they're just frightened men messing their pants and they all want the same thing - not to lie under theearth, but to walk upon it - without crutches.

  Peter Weiss

  War, Lying, Military

  Peter Weiss (1993). “Peter Weiss' The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat: As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade [a Play]”

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• This is a long-delayed, hard-won, and badly needed victory for millions of women.

  Patty Murray

  Inspirational, Long, Empowering

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• Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.

  Bill Toomey

  Travel, Mean, Journey

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• Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Retreat, Invincible

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

  Aristotle

  Peace, War, Winning

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• The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.

  Steven Pressfield

  Real, Army, Winning

  Steven Pressfield (1999). “Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae”, Bantam

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• If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Giving Up, Mean

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.77, A&C Black

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• When it looks impossible and you are ready to quit, victory is near!

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Success, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Nov 06, 2011

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• The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

  A.J. Cronin

  Motivational, Success, Achievement

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• On earth we have nothing to do with success or with results, but only with being true to God, and for God; for it is sincerity, and not success, which is the sweet savor before God. The defeat of the true-hearted is victory.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Success, Earth, Defeat

  "Life, Letters, Lectures, and Addresses of Fredk. W. Robertson, Incumbent of Trinity Chapel, Brighton, 1847-1853".

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• After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are: the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Cheer, Dedication

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.261, McGraw Hill Professional

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• When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Frustration, Power, Grace

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• Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.

  Vernon Howard

  Men, Self, Two

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• The architects of this wickedness will find no safe harbor in this world. We will chase our enemies to the furthest corners of this Earth. It must be war without quarter, pursuit without rest, victory without qualification

  Tom DeLay

  Memorial Day, War, Enemy

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• "Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time.

  Janet Morris

  Dream, Home, Suffering

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• Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.

  Horatio Nelson

  Victory And Defeat, Differences, Minutes

  "Jessie Peabody. Sea Fighters from Drake to Farragut". Book by Jessie Peabody Frothingham, 1902.

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• In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Divine Guidance, Perspective

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Goodness is stronger than evil.
  Love is stronger than hate.
  Light is stronger than darkness.
  Life is stronger than death.
  Victory is ours through Him who loved us.

  Desmond Tutu

  Peace, Hate, Love Is

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• Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls; they don't demolish them.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Wall, Warrior

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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