„Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price.“

— Sun Tzu

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„If I can do no more, let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.“
— Louisa May Alcott
„The outcome of the Reformation was the victory, not of Luther's perception of grace in all its purity and costliness, but of the vigilant religious instinct of man for the place where grace is to be obtained at the cheapest price.“
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
„Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.“
— Vladimir Lenin
„Those are the victories they won, with iron wills and hope in their hearts. That is the transformation that they wrought, with each step of their well-worn shoes. That’s the debt that I and millions of Americans owe those maids, those laborers, those porters, those secretaries; folks who could have run a company maybe if they had ever had a chance; those white students who put themselves in harm’s way, even though they didn't have; those Japanese Americans who recalled their own internment; those Jewish Americans who had survived the Holocaust; people who could have given up and given in, but kept on keeping on, knowing that “weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.”“
— Barack Obama
„When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.“
— Jr.
„The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Actions speak louder than words. In the days to come the Goddess of Victory will bestow her laurels only on those who prepared to act with daring.“
— Heinz Guderian
„Who speaks of victory? To endure is all.“
— Rainer Maria Rilke
„The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.“
— Winston S. Churchill