Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
Sun Tzu

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.
Miyamoto Musashi

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert

The best policy is to declare victory and leave.
George D. Aiken

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

The bud of victory is always in the truth.
Benjamin Harrison

The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls.
John T. Flynn

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.
Henry Walter Bates

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.
Louis Farrakhan

The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party.
Chen Shui-bian

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.
James Talent

The fight ended. For both was victory. For both there was defeat.
Anna Wickham

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Plato

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
Corrie Ten Boom

The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop.
Margaret Carlson

The hotter the battle the sweeter the victory.
Bob Marley

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

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
Douglas Haig

The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.
Pierre de Coubertin

The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death.
Julian Lincoln Simon