We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory. – Ralph Peters
If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia. – Ron Fournier
How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal? – Rene Cassin
See, for some reason, I feel like it’s a victory if I wake up one minute before the alarm. It’s like I’m in a contest with myself, with my foot kicking around until it wakes up the rest of my body. It’s the stupidest thing. But it makes me feel like I’ve already won something. – Ronda Rousey
Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public. – Ron Fournier
We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation. – Raul Grijalva
My victory is your victory. My victory is the victory of a unified party, a party that wants to propose to the Quebec people a country that is free and a country that is independent. – Pauline Marois
I get the, you know, ‘In my generation, we all had victory gardens, we all participated in this country’s success.’ It’s that kind of sentiment that I hear from everybody, that we’re all in this together. – Patty Murray
It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down. – Simone Weil
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. – Sun Tzu
If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown. – Thomas Carlyle
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence. – Sun Tzu
Workaholics typically have a lot of achievement with very little appreciation of what they have, whether it’s cars or friendships or otherwise. That is a shallow victory. Then you have people with a lot of appreciation and no achievement, which is fine, but it doesn’t create a lot of good in the world. – Timothy Ferriss
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory. – Sun Tzu
The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people. – Walter Ulbricht
We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group. – Ted Danson
If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler’s bidding. – Sun Tzu
‘It is finished’ will not be, as we know from the tradition of the ordering of these words from the cross, the last words of Jesus. ‘It is finished’ is a cry of victory. – Stanley Hauerwas
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. – Winston Churchill
The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I’m just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough. – Sarah Brady
Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ’s accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours. – Tullian Tchividjian
Hamas’s strategy is resistance and survival. As long as they survive, this is a victory. – Tzipi Livni
My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures. – Tim Howard
Mozambique and Zimbabwe must bring into being a new force in Malawi. We must not allow South Africa to set the course in Malawi… The victory is being planned… It demands cold-bloodedness. – Samora Machel
When you’re on the victory podium, you’re a queen, but when you come down from it, you’re nobody. You cannot be too proud of yourself. – Yana Kudryavtseva
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. – Winston Churchill