The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.
~ Dorothea Dix
The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of it. You crush the opposition; that's how we bring peace.
~ Rob Bell
The smile of God is victory.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
~ Og Mandino
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
~ John F. Kennedy
To be prepared is half the victory.
~ Miguel De Cervantes
There is no substitute for victory.
~ Douglas Macarthur
I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.
~ Sylvia Plath
Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.
~ Sun Tzu
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
~ Lao Tzu
If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.
I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.
~ Mickey Kaus
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
~ Blaise Pascal
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
What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.
~ Naomi Klein
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.
~ Hans Frank
The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnational network of terrorists who have tried to prevent this day from happening.
~ Jim Talent
