Victory Quotes - Page 36

• Disagreeing with the fervent patriotism of the Confederates: "I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen. . . . I'm saying very plainly that the Yankees are better equipped than we. . . . All we've got is cotton and slaves, and arrogance." "I seem to be spoiling everybody's brandy and cigars and dreams of victory."

  Clark Gable

  Dream, War, Winning

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• World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries ... [and] when these federation of republics have finally grown into a world union of Soviet Socialist Republics uniting the whole of mankind under the hegemony of the international proletariat organized as a state.

  Joseph Stalin

  Country, Historical, Groups

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• You win the victory when you yield to friends.

  Sophocles

  Friendship, Winning, Yield

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.71, University of Chicago Press

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• "This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding."

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Thank You, Teaching, Heart

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• "I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory think, "I'm back." I don't think like that. I'll definitely work hard. Things are not going to be easy. I might lose first round next week. You never know."

  Kim Clijsters

  Work, Thinking, Next Week

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• Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side which first employs air power as it should be employed. Germany, entangled in the meshes of vast land campaigns, cannot now disengage her air power for a strategically proper application. She missed victory through air power by a hair's breadth in 1940. . . . We ourselves are now at the crossroads.

  Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

  Hair, Land, Germany

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• The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. The Fighters are our salvation . . . but the Bombers alone provide the means of victory. . . . In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, War, Mean

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• The conviction of the justification of using even the most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief in the necessity of the victory of a revolutionary new order on this globe.

  Adolf Hitler

  Order, Air Power, Weapons

  Adolf Hitler (1941). “Mein Kampf: complete and unabridged, fully annotated”

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• We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Believe, Support, Survival

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• The generals have a saying: "Rather than make the first move it is better to wait and see. Rather than advance an inch it is better to retreat a yard." This is called going forward without advancing, pushing back without using weapons. There is no greater misfortune than underestimating your enemy. Underestimating your enemy means thinking that he is evil. Thus you destroy your three treasures and become an enemy yourself. When two great forces oppose each other, the victory will go to the one that knows how to yield.

  Laozi

  Moving, Mean, Thinking

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• A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The pain of defeat is bitter to him; he suffers at indifference and becomes desperate with loneliness. After all this has passed, he licks his wounds and begins everything anew. A warrior knows that war is made of many battles: he goes on

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Pain, Loneliness

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• A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference nor does he try to make a victory of it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

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• Few take up the burden of their own victory; most give up their dreams when these become impossible.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Giving Up

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• Enthusiasm is the force that leads us to the final victory.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Finals

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• He celebrates yesterday's victory in order to gain more strength for tomorrow's battle.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Yesterday

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• An enemy always represents a weakness. This might be fear of physical pain, but it could also be a premature sense of victory or the desire to abandon the fight because it is no longer worthwhile.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Pain, Inspiration

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• The warrior of light knows that everything around him - his victories, his defeats, his enthusiasm and his despondency - form part of his Good Fight.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Fighting

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• Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?

  Christopher Fry

  Motivational, Differences, Defeat

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Plays Three”, Oberon Books Limited

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• A Race car is more beautiful than the Victory of Samotracia

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Beautiful, Race, Car

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• We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration, a vast cemetery; or, the victory of socialism.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Rome, Triumph, Culture

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• The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most

  Muhammad Ali

  Greatest Victory, Life Is, Rise Above

  Twitter post from Sep 25, 2015

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• In a competition of love we'll all share in the victory, no matter who comes first

  Muhammad Ali

  Competition, Matter, Firsts

  Twitter post from Dec 25, 2010

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• Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.

  Edmund Spenser

  Hands, Vaunt, Unjust

  Edmund Spenser (1852). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: In Five Volumes ...”, p.214

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• I’ve always had this idea that if you’re going to try something, if you’re going to expend that first big block of effort and energy to participate - whether it’s riding the Tour de France or applying for a new job or coaching your daughter’s soccer team - you might as well go ahead and give whatever else it takes to win, I mean, I’m going to be there no matter what, right? Why not go ahead and get the victory?

  Johan Bruyneel

  Soccer, Daughter, Jobs

  Johan Bruyneel, Bill Strickland (2009). “We Might As Well Win: On the Road to Success with the Mastermind Behind Eight Tour de FranceVictories”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Victory is the most important aspect in Iraq, because victory in Iraq will help us have victory in the War on Terror.

  Andrew Card

  War, Iraq, Important

  "Andrew Card Responds to Bob Woodward's Claim of Confused, Divided Bush Administration". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. October 2, 2006.

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