We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. Read Summary
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Read Summary
Battles are won in the hearts of men. Read Summary
The will to win is the only thing. Read Summary
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious. Read Summary
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins. Read Summary
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. Read Summary
I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives. Read Summary
He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious. Read Summary
Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. Read Summary
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. Read Summary
He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious. Read Summary
Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory. Read Summary
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory. Read Summary
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. Read Summary
Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men. Read Summary
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence. Read Summary
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack. Read Summary