Impatience for victory guarantees defeat
Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective; victory is not the objective; you fight to remove the obstruction that comes in the way of your objective. If you let victory become the end in itself then you've gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about.
Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in that direction, Belgica effectively had quashed. Heroism in the corrupt sense of the age almost by definition, meant wanton self-sacrifice and bungling. For neither had he any taste. He wanted rational attainment; victory, but not at any price. No point upon the globe was worth the cost of a single life.
The rise of the Net and the Web represents a victory for the counterculture and the subculture. The next generation, raised on the Net as their primary medium, won't even know what consensus reality is.
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
A symbolic victory is still a victory.
I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement.
I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.
I am a series of small victories and large defeats.
I would love to see Wladimir Klitschko fight Antonio Tarver for many reasons. One is Tarver talks a lot; he would build up a big fight. And Tarver is coming off of a great victory. So I think he would be a good opponent.
Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.
The rules of war and business are the same. Victory and success are the same. In one it's life andor death in the other it is success or failure. There really is little room for compromise of "gray matter".
In every victory, Let it be said of me. . . My source of strength, My source of hope. . . Is Christ alone.
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.
A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting and victory.
If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory.
Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.