The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.
We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.
Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.
So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.
But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.
When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.