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“Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective; victory is not the objective; you fight to remove the obstruction that comes in the way of your objective. If you let victory become the end in itself then you've gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about.”

Ifs Way War Ends Certain Fighting Gone Victory Gains Forgotten Objectives Remove Obstruction

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“There is nothing--no circumstance, no trouble, no testing--that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment. But as I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart, no sorrow will ever disturb me, no circumstance will cause me to fret, for I shall rest in the joy of what my Lord is--that is the rest of victory!”

“For I assure Your Majesty that if God had not mysteriously assisted us and the victory had gone to Narváez, it would have been the greatest harm that Spaniards had done to each other for a long time past.”

Ifs Long Has Beens Done Past Gone Victory Long Time Harm Majesty Spaniards Times Past

Author:Hernando Cortes

“I've gone through so many of these stages of defeat and loss and victory, the ups and downs, that I know how to handle it.”

Knows Loss Know How Gone Stage Victory Defeat Handle Ups & Downs

Author:Barbara Boxer

“Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century Florence. Goethe stands serenely above the politics of Germany, and I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over cities, we too will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.”

Humans Long Today Spirit Certain Cities Gone Century Victory Battle Ambition Defeat Dust Triumph Remembered Germany Contribution Plato Human Spirit Carpe Diem Carpe Athens Florence

Author:John F. Kennedy

“If we know that the enemy is open to attack, but are unaware that our own men are not in a condition to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.”

Ifs Knows Men Art War Enemy Gone Conditions Victory Art Of War Halfway Strategist

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world.”

Ifs World Made War Political Sides Space Gone Military Victory Around The World Apocalypse Both Sides Vietnam War Ideological Vietnamese Political Victory

Book:America

Source: America

“If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory. If we know that the enemy is open to attack, but are unaware that our own men are not in a condition to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory. If we know that the enemy is open to attack, and also know that our men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the nature of the ground makes fighting impracticable, we have still gone only halfway towards victory.”

Ifs Knows Men Art Stills War Fighting Enemy Gone Conditions Military Victory Art Of War Halfway Strategist

Book:Sun-Tzu on the Art of War: The Oldest Military Treatise in the World (Sunzi for Language Learners, Volume 1)

Source: Sun-Tzu on the Art of War: The Oldest Military Treatise in the World (Sunzi for Language Learners, Volume 1)

“Winning does not always mean coming in first...real victory is in arriving at the finish line with no regrets because you know you've gone all out.”

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Author:Apolo Ohno

“A young man's passion, a jaded siren's last chance for love, a world gone mad, cheap thrills, fast cars, expensive wines, the triumph of victory, the overthrow of ontologically incipient hegemony, and gum! I have no idea if this book has any of them! But I liked the part about the bunny.”

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Author:Esther M. Friesner

“The best part of basketball, for those people on the inside, is the bus going to the airport after you've won a game on an opponent's floor. It's been a very tough battle. And preferably, in the playoffs. And that feeling that you have, together as a group, having gone to an opponent's floor and won a very good victory, is as about as high as you can get.”

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Author:Phil Jackson