The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.
Charles de Secondat

The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.
Jonathan Kozol

The Party of the Regions has won a convincing victory. We are ready to undertake responsibility for forming the Cabinet and we are calling on everyone to join us.
Viktor Yanukovych

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
Dag Hammarskjold

The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.
Damon Runyon

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.
Carol Moseley Braun

The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants.
Herman Gorter

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
Ted W. Engstrom

The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
Marcus Aurelius

The smile of God is victory.
John Greenleaf Whittier

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?
Aldrich Ames

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
Blaise Pascal

The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.
Al Lewis

The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.
David Sarnoff

The true victory is the victory for democracy and pluralism.
Hosni Mubarak

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.
Howard Cosell

The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
Yasser Arafat

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