Selected victory quotes

1. Layeth the smacketh down.

2. By seizing the formerly little-known Height 102.0 - the Mamayev Hill - the Red Army fought its way to the fascists' den - Berlin. We are proud to say that our victory in Stalingrad radically changed the whole situation in the Second World War. And this victory meant that our Motherland had withstood one of the most difficult tests in its history.

3. Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

4. The surest way to remain a winner is to win once, and then not play any more.

5. To be sure of winning, invent your own game, and never tell any other player the rules.

6. Americans like a winner. If you lose, you're nothing. I'm going to win, though. It's good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We've met five times. He's won three times and we've drawn twice. But I'm a stronger player and a long match favors me.

7. It's not quite as important who you beat as that you end up on top.

8. We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

9. Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers and scientists, and their contests determine the true triumph or defeat of nations. One scholar is matched with another; one creative mind with another; and one judicious temperament with his counterpart. A victory won on that field counts for three won by force of arms.

10. A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

11. The victor belongs to the spoils.

12. The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer.

13. The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

14. One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

15. No one conquers who doesn't fight.

16. War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

17. So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won. I can say that never in the last fifteen years have I had the peace of mind that I have since the election. I have almost a feeling of elation.

18. First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

19. Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.

20. Ours is a just cause; victory will be ours!

21. Developments since the rise of National Socialism make it probable that the continent will be freed from its Jewish destroyers of people and exploiters forever, and the German example after the German victory in World War II will also serve to bring about the destruction of the Jewish world tormentors on other continents.

22. There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

23. Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

24. It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.

25. You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

26. You been hearing about how bad I am since you were a little kid with mess in your pants! Tonight, I'm gonna whip you till you cry like a baby.

27. Eat your words! Eat your words! I am the greatest.

28. I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

29. When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

30. They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won.

31. Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge, This is defeat, fierce king, not victory.

32. Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.

33. Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did.

34. There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

35. The art of victory is learned in defeat.

36. The battle of Kursk... the forcing of the Dnieper... and the liberation of Kiev, left Hitlerite Germany facing catastrophe.

37. When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

38. Hulk Hogan, what'cha gonna do when The Rock runs wild on you? But you see Hogan, The Rock's gonna tell what's gonna happen. He's gonna tell you exactly what you're gonna do. You're gonna feel electricity like you've never felt before, electricity that's happened like never before. You will hear 70,000 strong chanting your name, chanting The Rock's name. Hulk Hogan, you will see the People's Elbow come crashing down on your chest. And Hogan, above all else, above all else, you will, you will, you will, you will, you will, good god almighty you will smell what The Rock is cooking!

39. My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

40. Layeth the smacketh down.

41. Victory; a matter of staying power

42. I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards, whether he told the truth or not. When starting and waging war it is not right that matters but victory. Close your hearts to pity. Act brutally, eighty million people must obtain what is their right. Their existence must be made secure. The strongest man is right.

43. Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.

44. Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must when our cause it is just, And this be our motto, 'In God is our trust!' And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

45. For ever so our thoughtful hearts repeat On fields of triumph dirges of defeat; And still we turn on gala-days to tread Among the rustling memories of the dead.

46. Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

47. When we are fighting with the enemy, even when it can be seen that we can win on the surface with the benefit of the Way, if his spirit is not extinguished, he may be beaten superficially yet undefeated in spirit deep inside. With this principle of 'penetrating the depths' we can destroy the enemy's spirit in its depths, demoralizing him by quickly changing our spirit. This often occurs. Penetrating the depths means penetrating with the long sword, penetrating with the body, and penetrating with the spirit. This cannot be understood in a generalization. Once we have crushed the enemy in the depths, there is no need to remain spirited. But otherwise we must remain spirited. If the enemy remains spirited it is difficult to crush him.

48. One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

49. While thinking when sober, our success at reaching our goals by using the First Baltic Front troops, the Memel operation, it can't be disregarded, that they [the troops] not only honorably accomplished their powerful strategic operation, but also an infusion of victory for the Soviet armed forces and an entrance into the final stages of the war.

50. Just rejoice at that news and congratulate our forces and the marines. .. Rejoice.

51. Maggie: I'll win, alright. Brick: Win what? What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? Maggie: Just staying on it, I guess. As long as she can.

52. 'The boyhood dream has come true for Shawn Michaels; Shawn Michaels: the World Wrestling Federation champion! It has happened at WrestleMania!'

53. It is the Russian Army that has done the main work of ripping the guts out of the German Army ... In the air and on the ocean and the seas we can maintain ourselves, but there was no force in the world which could have been called into being except after several more years that would have been able to maul and break the German Army and subject it to such terrible slaughter and manhandling as has fallen upon the Germans but the Russian Soviet Armies.

54. Victory depends on whether or not a duelist has the courage to fight until the bitter end.

55. We have experienced a miracle, something unique, something the like of which there has hardly been in the history of the world. God first allowed our people to be victorious for four and a half years, then He abased us, laid upon us a period of shamelessness, but now after a struggle of fourteen years he has permitted us to bring that period to a close. It is a miracle which has been wrought upon the German people.... It shows us that the Almighty has not deserted our people, that He received it into favour at the moment when it rediscovered itself. And that our people shall never again lose itself, that must be our vow so long as we shall live and so long as the Lord gives us the strength to carry on the fight.

56. One cannot rule by force alone... it is equally important to have this psychological something... They must be convinced that we are the victors.

57. The lesson of that victory was that Soviet citizens must still heed Lenin's warning of 1921.

58. It has been a damned serious business... Blucher and I have lost 30,000 men. It has been a damned nice thing - the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life. ... By God! I don't think it would have been done if I had not been there.

59. You know, I can beat all those guys.

60. Because I beat the Jews in chess. I beat them badly too, I beat them very badly... Plus, on top of that I exposed them as cheating in chess! As outright crooks. Plus, I exposed the holocaust as never happened. Totally made up. The Jews are goddamn liars. There is not a shred of truth to this holocaust.

61. Eddie Guerrero, you want a shot at the Great One but there's only one problem. It's you never told him whether you you were Cheech or were you Chong! Y arriba y arriba ! Oh yeah, whoa, whoa, whoa, The Rock ain't done! The Rock's got some more and it goes like this. Guerrero and The Rock in this ring will meet and when it's all over The Rock whooping ass on Latino Heat! Y arriba y arriba !

62. Well, we knocked the bastard off!

63. Erich Ludendorff was not a sentimentalist. He had come to take charge, to issue orders, to win a crucial victory.

64. There had been a war fought and won and the great city of the conquering people was crossed with triumphal arches and vivid with thrown flowers of white, red, and rose.

65. A radish will never stand in the way of victory.

66. Perseverance will give us our victory.

67. As Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense, that always will our whole nation remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people, in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory.

68. Every Iraqi atrocity has confirmed the justice and the urgency of our cause. (Applause.) Against this enemy we will accept no outcome except complete victory.

69. In this different kind of war, we may never sit down at a peace table. But make no mistake about it, we are winning, and we will win.

70. I know the American people understand the stakes in Iraq. They want to win. They will support the war as long as they see a path to victory. Americans can have confidence that we will prevail because thousands of smart, dedicated military and civilian personnel are risking their lives and are working around the clock to ensure our success.

71. In Iraq, there is no peace without victory. We will keep our nerve and we will win that victory.

72. To retreat before victory would be an act of recklessness and dishonor and I will not allow it.

73. Had we to do it over again, we would look at the consequences of catastrophic success, being so successful so fast that an enemy that should have surrendered or been done in escaped and lived to fight another day.

74. You have in American history one of the great captains of all times. It might be said of him, as it was of William the Silent, that he seldom won a battle but he never lost a campaign.

75. Winning depended to a large extent on the determination of the troops and the officers. The certainty that we were going to win kept up everyone's spirits, from privates to generals.

76. Zhukov's right arm, which once was enlisted in a just cause, will battle no more. Sleep! Russian history holds, as is fitting, Space for the exploits of those who, though bold, marching triumphant through foreign cities, trembled in terror when they came home.

77. For we that fight till the world is free, We are not easy in victory: We have known each other too long, my brother, And fought each other, the world and we.

78. Men that are men again: Who goes home? Tocsin and trumpeter! Who goes home? For there's blood on the grass and blood on the foam, And blood on the body, when Man comes home. And a voice valedictory: Who is for victory? Who is for liberty? Who goes home?

79. Senator Barkley and I will win this election and make these Republicans like it - don't forget that! We will do that because they are wrong and we are right, and I will prove it to you in just a few minutes.

80. So much blood has already been shed for the ideals which we cherish, and for which Franklin Delano Roosevelt lived and died, that we dare not permit even a momentary pause in the hard fight for victory. Today, the entire world is looking to America for enlightened leadership to peace and progress. Such a leadership requires vision, courage and tolerance. It can be provided only by a united nation deeply devoted to the highest ideals.

81. McMahon up the street of Paris came, In triumph from Magenta. Every one Had heard and praised the fearless marshal's name, And gloried in the deeds that he had done. Crowds packed the walks, and at each seperate glass A face was set to see the hero pass.

82. Pierrette fit comme les gens qui souffrent au dela de leurs forces, elle garda le silence. Ce silence est, pour tous les etres attaques, le seul moyen de triompher: il lasse les charges cosaques des envieux, les sauvages escarmouches des ennemis; il donne une victoire ecrasante et complete. Quoi de plus complet que le silence? Il est absolu, n'est-ce pas une des manieres d'etre de l'infini?

83. Victory or Westminister Abbey.

84. May the Great God, whom I worship, grant to my Country and for the benefit of Europe in general a great and glorious victory; and may no misconduct in anyone tarnish it; and may humanity after Victory be the predominant feature of the British fleet. For myself, individually, I commit my life to Him who made me, and may His blessing light upon my endeavours for serving my Country faithfully. To Him I resign myself and the just cause which is entrusted to me to defend. Amen. Amen. Amen.

85. The Warrior has won the title!

86. I know well that these English will put me to death, because they think that after I'm dead, they will win the Kingdom of France. But even if there were hundred thousand more Godons than there are now, still they will never have the Kingdom!

87. With humanity's long proud history of standing firm against natural enemies, sometimes in the face of almost certain defeat and extinction, we would be cowardly and stupid to leave the field on the eve of our greatest potential victory.

88. I fought the law and the law lost!

89. Then devil is with us, and together we will win.

90. Only the Jews had remained victorious after the dreadful days of World War I. These were the people of whom Christ said, 'Its father is the devil.'

91. If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each leading to the next, but instead succumb to the idea that the capture of certain geographical points or the seizure of undefended provinces are of value in themselves, we are liable to regard them as windfall profits. In so doing, and in ignoring the fact that they are links in a continuous chain of events, we also ignore the possibility that their possession may later lead to definite disadvantages.

92. The loonies who sought a glorious death in battle found it very early on. This rapidly cleared the chain of command of the accumulated fools. The survivors were those who learned to fight dirty, and live, and fight another day, and win, and win, and win, and for whom nothing, not comfort, or security, not family for friends for their immortal souls, was more important than winning. Dead men are losers by definition. Survival and victory. They weren't supermen, or immune to pain. They sweated in confusion and darkness. And ... they won.

93. Quem faz injuria vil e sem razao, Com forcas e poder em que esta posto, Nao vence; que a vitoria verdadeira E saber ter justica nua e inteira.

94. It is a great night. It is the end of Socialism.

95. Of course, people tell me that I shouldn't gloat. Well, I am gloating.

96. Brezhnev took Afghanistan. / Begin took Beirut. / Galtieri took the Union Jack. / And Maggie, over lunch one day, / Took a cruiser with all hands. / Apparently, to make him give it back.

97. That's the only way you gonna save this sucker. He's doomed.

98. In any case, it is necessary to be victorious in education activities. The real salvation of a nation can only be in this manner.

99. Death is a victory over the self - which, like all self-conquest, brings about a new, easier existence.

100. Truly England and the church of God hath had a great favour from the Lord, in this great victory given us.