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“To fight on the winning side was one thing; to survive, quite another.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“There's no such thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeated and humiliated people. Another place to guard and defend…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Endurance, after all, was a kind of victory; a kind of heroism, too.”

— Orson Scott Card

“Survival was an unpleasent thing to witness.”

— Marian Keyes

“Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.”

— Arthur Wellesley Wellington

“This was the sort of thing that happened to persons of this sort, sensitives, who fought the world and always, in the end, let…

— Malcolm Bradbury

“That's what war was. A great motion and then a great stillness in which the winner crouches and the loser lies facing the sky.”

— Kathy Hepinstall

“But victory is not everything. It’s just as crucial to consider what has been won.”

— Eva Stachniak

“After a glorious victory in a grand war, the hardest battle to fight is the first little skirmish of the next campaign.”

— Pat Riley

“Great victory requires great risk.”

— Rick Riordan

“Victory is a stance taken to move from being a victim to being a victor.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“...while terror and strife hogged the international headlines, there was always-really, truly always-something more hopeful and humane running along side it.”

— Amanda Lindhout Sara Corbett