Victory Quotes - Page 35

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world.

I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.

History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.

It is also a victory to know when to retreat.

My victory is when the audience buys a ticket to watch my film. I am extremely thrilled when they give it a thumbs-up.

This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Victory comes late-- And is held low to freezing lips-- Too rapt with frost To take it

It was [Totila's] constant theme, that national vice and ruin are inseparably connected; that victory is the fruit of moral as well as military virtue; and that the prince, and even the people, are responsible for the crimes which they neglect to punish.

V-J Day, or Victory in Japan Day, marks the date of the Japanese surrender that ended fighting in the Pacific.

There aren't any moral victories.

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

Pattern recognition and association make up the core of our thought. These activities involve millions of operations carried out in parallel, outside the field of our consciousness. If AI appeared to hit a brick wall after a few quick victories, it did so owing to its inability to emulate these processes.

To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.

Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness

Celebrate small victories often. Mourn failures quickly. Do what's necessary without fanfare.

The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party.

There is only one decisive victory: the last.

As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.

At least is was a victory and at least we won

Victory is produced by and belongs to all.

She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life made up of advances that were actually frantic retreats and victories that were concealed defeats.

If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory.

The spot where God's triumph is achieved, God's victory over sin, over lawlessness, is the cross of Calvary- the cross on which the Son of God died. In that cross and through the cross the works of the devil were destroyed, and the One who conquered him is yet to bruise the serpent's head in the final triumph when He comes again, as recorded in prophecy.