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Victory Quotes

As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.

– Adam Hochschild

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

– Benjamin Franklin

The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

– Alva Myrdal

‘What if?’ history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day – including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery – believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.

– Ben Macintyre

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people’s minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

– Barbara Deming

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

– Bill Toomey

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

– Albert Pike

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

– Abraham Lincoln

I like the Victory rolls, beehive, pompadour – all of that stuff. It’s just cool. And actually, with ethnic hair, oddly enough, it works so well because I don’t have to tease my hair to get body.

– Andra Day

If we can actually decrease the failure rate from nine out of 10 drugs failing in clinical trials and instead have seven out of 10 instead failing, that is a major victory for drug discovery and for people having better therapy.

– Anne Wojcicki

I have worked closely with many of our county commissioners, mayors, local transportation officials, and others to determine project needs in the 18th District, and they deserve a great deal of thanks for today’s victory on the House floor.

– Bob Ney

There is no one magic move or secret that creates victory, but lots of little items that when added together can make you victorious.

– Bill Toomey

Victory and defeat are a part of life, which are to be viewed with equanimity.

– Atal Bihari Vajpayee

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

– Blaise Pascal

What is important is the victory of the people, not of a candidate. We must unite for the good of Madagascar’s people, and we are going to succeed.

– Andry Rajoelina

Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn’t my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don’t love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.

– Caitlyn Jenner

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

– Bernard Williams

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

– Aristotle

Events in America show the extent to which democracy there is fuelled by populism – Barack Obama’s victory is a manifestation not of Washington’s need for change, but of America’s. That is not how democracy works in England.

– Andrew O’Hagan

One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the chance to declare victory and move on to new frontiers.

– Nicholas A. Christakis

Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.

– Norman Finkelstein

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

– Ferdinand Foch

The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene.

– Elliott Abrams

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

– Dwight D. Eisenhower

A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

– Pierre Corneille

Victory doesn’t lie in taming our nature but in progressively discovering and revealing more of it.

– Marilyn Ferguson

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

– Dick Gregory

Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006.

– Elliott Abrams

Without a plan, there’s no attack. Without attack, no victory.

– Curtis Armstrong

I don’t think it’s a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory.

– Martina Hingis

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