A Quote by Nicolas Chamfort

Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.

Nicolas Chamfort

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Anticipation Conquest Leads Spur Victory Way

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Nicolas Chamfort
French - Writer
April 6, 1741 - April 13, 1794

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

Montesquieu

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory.

Yamaoka Tesshu

The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide with the destruction of humanity; wherever it has ruled, it has begun to destroy the essence of man.

Hannah Arendt

A loss leads to victory, being fired leads to a dream job..I find comfort in believing that good things can grow out of tragedy.

Ronda Rousey

A private victory leads to a public victory and a corporate blessing, because God turns His face toward those who will demonstrate character when no one is looking.

Bill Johnson

God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.

Hannibal

There's a double meaning in the film The Conquest. First, the conquest of power at the UMP party and how Sarkozy had to fight his colleagues inside the party so that it was him running for President. He wins the political conquest, but he loses the feminine conquest in that his wife leaves him. It's hard for a President to be single - that's never happened.

Xavier Durringer

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

Ludwig von Mises

At present, the most effective way of preventing war would be for statesmen to direct politics so as to support a sound nationalism. This leads to concordance between people of kindred race and languages, whereas the conquest and coercion of people of different race and language inevitably lead to new wars.

Ellen Key

Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival.

Max Brooks

The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.

Dorothea Dix

Yes, even amongst wiser militants, how many wounds have been given, and credits slain, for the poor victory of an opinion, or beggarly conquest of a distinction.