victory

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

For a kid, self-esteem can be as close at hand as a sports victory or a sense of belonging in a peer group. It's a much more complicated and elusive proposition for adults, subject to the responsibilities and vicissitudes of grown-up life.

You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.

If we can actually decrease the failure rate from nine out of 10 drugs failing in clinical trials and instead have seven out of 10 instead failing, that is a major victory for drug discovery and for people having better therapy.

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.

The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.

The Japanese scored an important victory at Pearl Harbor, but the attack pulled the United States into World War II, and four years later, Japan was in ruins, utterly defeated.

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

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.