Victory At All Cost Quotes

#1. Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was ... What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left to dedicate our cemetery at the end, or whether the last Marine would die knocking out the last Japanese gun and gunner.

Graves B. Erskine

#2. Our only concern should be to keep the fight [for souls] aggressive and to win victory regardless of cost or sacrifice.

Samuel Marinus Zwemer

#3. Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

Thomas Paine

#4. There was no victory in death, just death. To live through the chaos would be victory and it would come at an extremely high cost.

Luke Taylor

#5. 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

#6. You can make money without doing evil.

Sergey Brin

#7. It was all right to hope and noble to strive, but in the end it was doom alone which would count.

Stephen King

#8. He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be dampened. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength.

Sun Tzu

#9. The more a victory cost, the more it was esteemed.

Patrick O'Brian

#10. I'm still going to Disney World.

Charles Barkley

#11. Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour.

Kenneth Clark

#12. The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.

Randall Jarrell

#13. Many rebel soldiers that night would sleep on their muskets and question the value of a victory that had cost them Stonewall Jackson.

John C. Waugh

#14. Don't be ashamed to celebrate victories that may seem small to others. Only you and God know what they really cost.

Steven Furtick

#15. Your ambition has cost you dear, sir, Hal said, trying to keep a rein on his fury. In victory a true warrior must show forbearance, his father had once said. He must not give in to the base instinct for revenge.

Wilbur Smith

#16. Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul

Dean Koontz

#17. When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.

Paul Simon

#18. One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

Mortimer Adler

#19. It is talk such as that which will cost us victory,

Joseph R. Lallo

#20. While I do not believe Ford was wrong to pardon Nixon, the timing of the pardon was premature and may have cost Ford the margin of victory in the 1976 election.

Richard Ben-Veniste