Top 100 Quotes About The Victor
#1. All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#2. Sensible men were not eager to submit themselves to the Judgement of the Almighty, and a decisive battle seemed to prove that the victor had God on his side. Most people preferred not to put the Lord's Favour to such a stringent, conclusive test.
Sharon Kay Penman
#3. Reason doesn't always stand up to pain and come out the victor.
Amy A. Bartol
#6. Whenever your feeling is in conflict with your wish, feeling will be the victor.
Neville Goddard
#7. The victor powers in the Great War had irresistible force at their disposal if only they could muster the will to deploy it. But they increasingly lacked that will.
Robert Service
#8. In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.
Robert Heilbroner
#9. When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.
Saint Augustine
#10. I won from Mr. Jeffries because I outclassed him in every department of the fighting game. Before I entered the ring I was certain I would be the victor. I never changed my mind at any time.
Jack Johnson
#11. Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#12. It is a shameful thing for a Christian to talk about getting the victory. We should belong so completely to the Victor that it is always His victory, and "we are more than conquerors through Him ... " (Romans 8:37).
Oswald Chambers
#13. [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.
Pearl S. Buck
#15. My first glimpse of the Adelaide Oval was given through the Victor Richardson Gates and up the ramp, and there it spread out before me, a green oasis. It was like another world opening up.
Barry Nicholls
#16. I think people forget that bipartisanship is really the burden of the victor, not the loser.
Mike Huckabee
#17. When our patterns are threatened by new facts, reason is seldom the victor: 'I know what I think, so don't go confusing me with new opinions.
Marianne Fredriksson
#18. You've got the oil companies fighting Pope Francis. Fighting the scientists of the world. Fighting the governor of California. They are engaged in literally a life-and-death struggle, and I have no doubt who is going to be the victor.
Jerry Brown
#20. 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.
Adolf Hitler
#21. LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.
Ambrose Bierce
#22. Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat.
S.D. Gordon
#23. The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means.
Barbara Marciniak
#24. Life is gamble, It's harsh and painful most of the time, and it's not for the timid. Spoils go to the victor, not to the one who doesn't even show up for the battle.
-Acheron
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#25. It was, all in all, a grand example of interspecies lack of cooperation and the further illustration that might makes right. I stayed in the rest area, in my car, for another half an hour, until everything had settled down, and saw who emerged as the victor. The bees kept the water fountain.
Gary Paulsen
#27. A strategic victory does not validate all the victor's operational and tactical methods or make them universally applicable.
Kalev I. Sepp
#28. The warehouse cat was always the aggressor, while the attic cat was ultimately the victor, just as in politics.
Anne Frank
#29. History is written by the victor, and if the elderly don't pass down their memories, eventually there won't be anyone else left alive who knows how the war was really fought.
Rachel Vincent
#30. The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
Quintus Ennius
#32. In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished. The triumph of sin in 1865 would have stimulated and helped to civilize both sides.
H.L. Mencken
#33. The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor ... I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.
Jack Johnson
#34. For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.
Gustav Stresemann
#35. Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.
Fernand Braudel
#36. Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.
Joseph Addison
#37. Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested.
Paulo Coelho
#39. Jesus defeated satan in Gethsemane on the cross, not by directly confronting the devil, but by fulfilling the destiny to which He had been called. The greatest battle that was ever won was accomplished by the apparent death of the victor, without even a word of rebuke to His adversary!
Francis Frangipane
#40. We learn that CONTROL IS UP because we experience fights in which the victor ends up on top, that GOALS ARE DESTINATIONS because we walk toward something we want, and that TIME IS A MOVING OBJECT because things that approach us get closer and closer as time elapses.
Steven Pinker
#41. The Human Condition has a vacancy ... a transient declaring It's Self The Victor! Till death do us part in This War for human isolation.
Rosemarie Yusen
#42. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world.
Martin Luther
#43. When you're ready to live as the victor and not the victim, you have to change the language that you give to yourself and then you have to change the conversation that you give to others. Words matter.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#44. To the victor belong the responsibilities.
Al Bernstein
#45. Up from the grave He arose, with a mighty triumph o'er his foes. He arose the victor from the dark domain and He lives forever with his saints to reign. He arose! He arose! Hallelujah..,Ch rist arose!
Robert Lowry
#46. If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.
Gustav Stresemann
#47. Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out the victor.
Cus D'Amato
#48. When we're most exhausted, we're expending more energy fighting the enemy than we are seeking God's presence. More than you seek to win, seek Christ! More than you seek to defeat the enemy, seek his foe! More than you seek victory, seek the Victor!
Beth Moore
#49. In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.
Patti Smith
#50. History is always written by the victor, and the histories of the losing parties belong to the shrinking circle of those who were there.
Joachim Peiper
#51. Kneels? Falters? Look to the night sky, foolish man, and gauge the victor in the contest between Dark and Light.
Steven Erikson
#52. You can either be the victim of your own life, or the victor.
Catie Hartsfield
#53. It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
Seneca The Younger
#54. I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#55. In the politics of consent, no victory is ever permanent unless the victor makes it firm on a base of persuasion.
Theodore H. White
#56. I wonder if Effie will still be wearing that silly pink wig, or is she'll be sporting some other unnatural color especially for the Victor Tour.
Suzanne Collins
#57. Life is a gamble, Vane. It's harsh and painful most of the time, and it's not for the timid. Spoils go to the victor, not to the one who doesn't even show up for the battle.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#59. The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
Adolf Hitler
#60. Let your heart be the victor,
Nely Cab
#61. A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor.
Virgil
#62. You're a demon. I thought your motto was 'spoils to the victor.' (Aimee)
No, our motto is 'everything tastes better with hot sauce.' (Xedrix)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#63. The trouble arises from the generally received philosophy of life, according to which life is a contest, a competition, in which respect is to be a ccorded to the victor. This view leads to an undue cultivation of the will at the expense of the senses and the intellect.
Bertrand Russell
#64. Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor.
Raleigh Trevelyan
#65. In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
Neville Chamberlain
#66. The last I saw of him was of a dark blue back marching towards Shaftesbury Avenue; eternally the victor in a war where the losers win.
John Fowles
#67. It was a strategic victory as bloodless for the defeated as for the victor-and the less men slain on the other side, the more potential adherents and recruits for Caesar. Despite the substitution of manoeuvre for direct assaults upon his enemy the campaign had cost him only six weeks of his time.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#68. Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#69. I am not a person who goes in the side of the many, because I prefer the side of the victor.
Kenneth De Guzman
#70. The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
A.J. Muste
#71. It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#73. I have no enemies ... but if I am to have an enemy, Let his strength be equal to mine, That truth alone may be the victor.
Kahlil Gibran
#74. But what can women do in times of war? They help, they cheer, they inspire, and if their cause is lost they must accept death or worse. Few women have the courage for self-destruction. "To the victor belong the spoils," and women have ever been the spoils of war.
Zane Grey
#75. history is one sided, none of the stories are wholly true. We only hear the stories the victor wants told. The remaining stories, the plights, justifications and heroics of the losers are gone with time. Ours is such a history. We are stronger, yet rarely
H.K. Savage
#76. Love is the victor in every case. Love breaks down the iron bars of thought, and sets the captive free.
Ernest Holmes
#77. Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#78. I believe in the old warrior's credo that "to the victor go the spoils."
Pope Francis
#79. All you need is coffee, some cigarettes, and a Twitter account and your writing career begins! How far you go is determined by the followers you call friends.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#80. People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift.
Victor LaValle
#81. The history of colonisation is replete with tales of happy, hippy natives dancing around half-naked, taking fantastic drugs and having as much sex as they could wave a stick at.
Victor L. Machin
#82. The world of sleep has an existence of its own.
Victor Hugo
#83. The miracle is that each of us can ultimately be invited to places we have only dreamed about and heard about.
Mark Victor Hansen
#84. Monsieur Bienvenu was simply a man who accepted these mysterious questions ... and who had in his soul a deep respect for the mystery which enveloped them.
Victor Hugo
#85. Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
Victor Hugo
#86. The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
Victor Hugo
#87. After you read the script, then you actually just have to be in the moment you're in, in order to make it believable. You can't give it away. You can't tip it off. For me, it's always about being truthful in the moment I'm in. Hopefully, being able to reveal what I'm feeling, you have to believe it.
Victor Garber
#88. You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of a person.
Israelmore Ayivor
#89. The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
Victor Hugo
#90. For some reason, I thought Victor could heal that wound better than anyone else. It's strange to think that this vampire, the embodiment of all my hatred, could act like a suture.
J.A. London
#91. Its easy to protest, even a child protests...the hardest part is understanding the 'why and what to protest.
Victor Truth
#93. What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo
#94. William Kowalski is the kind of storyteller you don't see quite enough these days. The yarn spinner with a generous soul. The Hundred Hearts is a moving, humane adventure about the price of personal connections and the costs of sacrifice. I tore through this bad boy in two short nights.
Victor LaValle
#95. Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.
Helen Keller
#96. I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Victor Hugo
#97. The ancient Egyptians believed the god Anubis met each of us on the other side, and that he stood before a great scale on which our hearts were set. There each was weighed, tested, for its worth.
Was this the heart I wanted measured?
Victor LaValle
#98. I bear a hell within me," Black Tom growled. "And finding myself unsympathized with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.
Victor LaValle
#99. Love one another dearly, always. Nothing else in the world really matters but that: to love one another.
Victor Hugo
#100. I mean," Minnie continued, "I don't have a problem with anyone who has a disability and wants to find a cure. But I'm good." "Don't you get it?" Flexis argued, "I'm giving you the chance to be normal!" "Your definition of normal severely contradicts mine," Minnie quietly said. Victor's
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