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Victories Quotes (page 14)

Charles M. Schulz quote: "For one brief moment victory was within our grasp!"And then..."
For one brief moment victory was within our grasp!"And then the game started! Charles M. Schulz
Therefore one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful. Seizing the enemy without fighting is the most skillful. Sun Tzu
There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes, almost 10,000 ships, boats, landing craft, frigates, sloops, and other special combat vessels--all involved in a surprise attack on the heavily fortified north coast of France, to secure a beachhead in the heart of enemy-held territory so that the march to Germany and victory could begin. It was daring, risky, confusing, bloody, and... Tom Brokaw
I am a Christian…so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory. J. R. R. Tolkien
If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened-that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death?... But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated...'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan,'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'... All that was needed was a series of victories over your own memory. George Orwell
Ninety-three" was the war of Europe against France, and of France against Paris. And what was the Revolution? It was the victory of France over Europe, and of Paris over France. Hence the immensity of that terrible moment?, '93, greater than all the rest of the century Victor Hugo
Barack Obama quote: "This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the..."
This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change. Barack Obama
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams. Og Mandino
Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: (1)He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. (2) Hewill win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.(3) He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughoutall its ranks. (4) He will win who, prepared himself, waits to takethe enemy unprepared. (5) He will win who has military capacity andis not interfered with by the sovereign. Sun Tzu
Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison. Eduardo Galeano
People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory. Karl Lagerfeld
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. Howard Zinn
Nick Hornby quote: "Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a..."
Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch. Nick Hornby
The experience of mankind on the earth is always changing as man develops and has to deal with new combinations of elements; and the writer who is to be anything more than an echo of his predecessors must always find expression for something which has never yet been expressed, must master a new set of phenomena. ... With each such victory of the human intellect, whether in history, in philosophy or in poetry, we experience a deep satisfaction: we have been cured of some ache of disorder,... Edmund Wilson
Adolf Hitler quote: "Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat."
Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat. Adolf Hitler

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