Victory Quotes
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As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. (Quote by - Count Galeazzo Ciano)
There are many victories worse than a defeat. (Quote by - George Eliot)
God was preparing me, not for victory on court, but for running a foundation to enhance the lives of children with cancer. (Quote by - Andrea Jagger)
First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can. (Quote by - Horatio Nelson)
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. (Quote by - Ralph W. Sockman)
The victorious cause pleased the gods, but the victory pleased Cato. (Quote by - Lucanus)
Then should some cloud pass over The brow of sire or lover, Think 'tis the shade By Victory made Whose wings right o'er us hover! (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
You know how to win victory, Hannibal, you do not how to use it (Quote by - Maharbal)
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. (Quote by - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne)
Victory and defeat are each of the same price. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)
Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes--not that you won or lost--but how you played the Game. (Quote by - Grantland Rice)
Yield not to temptation, for yielding is sin; Each victory will help you some other to win. (Quote by - H R Palmer)
Genuine victories, the sole conquests yielding no remorse, are those gained over ignorance. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories. (Quote by - Polybius)
Tony Blair is already secretly grinning at the prospect of his third victory. You don't have to settle for that. (Quote by - Michael Howard)
Tony Blair will be remembered as a great friend to Wales because it was his landslide election victory in 1997 that led to devolution. (Quote by - Rhodri Morgan)
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
These are emotional scenes and it's nice to see we've made so many people proud. (Quote by - Michael Vaughan)
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. (Quote by - Roger Bannister)
Force is all conquering, but its victories are short lived. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Individual glory is insignificant when compared to achieving victory as a team. (Quote by - Dot Richardson)
Victory is by nature insolent and haughty. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. (Quote by - Red Sanders)
Hail! Thou as victor crowned. (Quote by - B.G. Schumacher)
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. (Quote by - Malcolm S. Forbes)
The greatest conquerer is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
The best policy is to declare victory and leave. (Quote by - George D. Aiken)
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. (Quote by - Diane Arbus)
In ourselves are triumph and defeat. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. (Quote by - Paul Bryant)
To perceive victory when it is known to all is not really skilful. Everyone calls victory in battle good, but it is not really good. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
In war there is no substitute for victory. (Quote by - General Douglas MacArthur)
Victory belongs to the most persevering. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. (Quote by - Edwin Markham)
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. (Quote by - Douglas Macarthur)
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
They will come for a victory and they will come to play football, not volleyball like Northern Ireland. (Quote by - Carlos Alberto)
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. (Quote by - Martina Navratilova)
Not might but light lit Maccabees' lamp through the night. (Quote by - O Anna Niemus)
Do not allow a chance to the enemy. Continue to fight until final victory'. (Quote by - Luigi Longo)
We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable. (Quote by - Sir Winston Churchill)
The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give. (Quote by - Howard Cosell)
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result is victory, then you must not fight, even at the ruler's bidding. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
If you're not going to play to win, you might as well hold the Olympics in someone's back yard. (Quote by - Jessie Owens)
It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory. (Quote by - Che Guavara)
Australia 602 for 3 declared, England 20 for 3. And in the sixth test, victory is possibly slipping away from England. (Quote by - Steve Rider)
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. (Quote by - Elie Wiesel)
Westminster Abbey, or Victory. (Quote by - Horatio Nelson)
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
I think it is fantastic and there is nothing sweeter than winning a game like that in such a manner. (Quote by - Colin Charvis)
The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, physically, morally and spiritually defeated. (Quote by - F. A. Wickett)
Victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan. (Quote by - Proverb)
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. (Quote by - William Hazlett)
We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace. (Quote by - Paul Hoffman)
They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy. (Quote by - William L. Marcy)
The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered. (Quote by - St. Augustine)
victory goes to the player who makes the next to last mistake. (Quote by - Savielly Tartakarov)
A victory without danger is a triumph without glory. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)
By yielding you may obtain victory (Quote by - Ovid)
In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey. (Quote by - Sir Philip Sidney)
Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory. (Quote by - Vernon Howard)
The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe. (Quote by - John Milton)
The smile of God is victory. (Quote by - John Greenleaf Whittier)
Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them. (Quote by - Basil King)
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it. (Quote by - Pedro Calderón de la Barca)
You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat. (Quote by - Christy Mathewson)
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. (Quote by - Jean-Paul Sartre)
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. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
There's an old saying that victory has hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. (Quote by - Horace Mann)
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. (Quote by - George Clemenceau)
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else. (Quote by - Lois McMaster Bujold)
We have met the enemy and they are ours. (Quote by - Oliver Hazard Perry)
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. (Quote by - Arthur Golden)
Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A masterful retreat is itself a victory. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory. (Quote by - Douglas Macarthur)
Victory always starts in the head. It's a state of mind. It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmations that destiny can do nothing but obey. (Quote by - Douchan Gersi)
Victory is a thing of the will. (Quote by - Ferdinand Foch)
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory. (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)
Not victory Obi won. The shroud of the darkside has fallen. Begun the clone war has. (Quote by - Yoda)
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. (Quote by - Wendell Philips)
Victory; a matter of staying power. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is of all things most shameful and vile. (Quote by - Plato)
It's been a long night, but we've waited four years for this victory. (Quote by - John Edwards)
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose! (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. (Quote by - Al Gore)
The goddess of sport is not Beauty but Victory, a jealous goddess who demands an absolute homage. (Quote by - R K Elliott)
But if We have such another victory, we are undone. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
The people of London have turned out for us and it shows how much cricket and the Ashes mean to them - it's fantastic. (Quote by - Andrew Flintoff)
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first. (Quote by - Harry S Truman)
And either victory, or else a grave. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
If you can accept losing, you can't win. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)
The bud of victory is always in the truth. (Quote by - Benjamin Harrison)
One by one in many countries they break through the ice of fear.. cups of crocuses .. stand up in caucuses .. East to West from Africa to the Caucusus and state their eternal allegiance to the Creator Sun. (Quote by - Saiom Shriver)
If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk. (Quote by - Bill Rodgers)
The will to conquer is the first condition of victory. (Quote by - Ferdinand Foch)
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing. (Quote by - Bill Veeck)
The most dangerous moment comes with victory. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
It was worth getting your knickers wet for victory vs Spain in the rain. (Quote by - Jenny Cardwell)
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. (Quote by - Lois McMaster Bujold)
The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won but to have fought well. (Quote by - Baron Pierre De Coubertin)
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. (Quote by - Muhammad Ali)
Ome more such victory and we are lost. (Quote by - Pyrrhus)
The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
To the victors belong the spoils. (Quote by - General Ferdinand Foch)
A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I expect you to rock their world. Wipe them out if that is what they choose. But if you are ferocious in battle remember to be magnamimous in victory. (Quote by - Tim Collins)
There is no substitute for victory. (Quote by - Douglas MacArthur)
You win the victory when you yield to friends. (Quote by - Sophocles)
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more. (Quote by - Louis L'Amour)
Who thought he'd won The field as certain as a gun. (Quote by - James Butler, first Duke of Ormonde)
The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. (Quote by - Antoine)
It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle. (Quote by - Richard M. DeVos)
Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Expect victory and you make victory. (Quote by - Preston Bradley)
From what far, heavenly height of hope Didst thou descend to light our way, Cleaving with flash of snowy robe Time's dusky veil of twilight gray? (Quote by - Julia Larned)
A victory won over self, is the only victory acceptable to God. (Quote by - Charles Nelson Douglas)
I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway. (Quote by - Joan Benoit Samuelson)
Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey. (Quote by - Lord Horatio Nelson)
We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble. (Quote by - Jack Kemp)
Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the Attack. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations would not wish to disturb it . . . so that the confidence of the German people shall be put in the equity of their cause and not in the might of their armies. (Quote by - David Lloyd George)
Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished. (Quote by - General Ferdinand Foch)
Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
And so with that spirit of confidence in our step and with that prayer in our heart, let us now quicken our pace to the victory that awaits us!. (Quote by - Perry Christie)
Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat. (Quote by - Horatio Nelson)
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Accept the challenges, so you may feel the exhilaration of victory. (Quote by - George S. Patton)
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. (Quote by - Oswald Spengler)
Out spoke the victor then, As he hail'd them o'er the wave, Ye are brothers! ye are men! And we conquer but to save; So peace instead of death let us bring; But yield, proud foe, let us bring; With the crews, at England's feet, And make submission meet To our King. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat. (Quote by - John Gay)
Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory. (Quote by - Frederick Faber)
And everybody praised the Duke, Who this great fight did win.' 'But what good came of it at last?' Quoth little Peterkin. 'Why that I cannot tell', said he, 'But 'twas a famous victory. (Quote by - Robert Southey)
