Quotes about victory

"What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny."

Alger, William R. on victory   

"Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won."

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington on victory   

"The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered."

Augustine, St. on victory   

"There is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer."

Bee, Bernard Elliot on victory   

"Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting."

Beecher, Henry Ward on victory
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"Victory belongs to the most persevering."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on victory   

"The most dangerous moment comes with victory."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on victory   

"I came, I saw, I conquered."

Caesar, Julius on victory
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"One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it."

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro on victory   

"No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors."

Carlyle, Thomas on victory   

"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."

Churchill, Winston on victory
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"Victory is by nature insolent and haughty."

Cicero, Marcus T. on victory   

"A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory."

Corneille, Pierre on victory
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"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."

Cosell, Howard on victory   

"Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it."

Covey, Stephen R. on victory   

"Survival is triumph enough."

Crews, Harry on victory
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"Wherever work is done, victory is attained."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on victory   

"The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on victory
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"No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on victory   

"Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on victory   

"The will to conquer is the first condition of victory."

Foch, Ferdinand on victory
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"Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on victory
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"No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat."

Gay, John on victory   

"Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end."

Herrick, Robert on victory   

"We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace."

Hoffman, Paul on victory
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"Victory; a matter of staying power."

Hubbard, Elbert on victory   

"Victory and defeat are each of the same price."

Jefferson, Thomas on victory
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"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."

King, Basil on victory   

"The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them."

Lao-Tzu on victory   

"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world."

Lao-Tzu on victory
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"Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories."

Lincoln, Abraham on victory   

"In ourselves are triumph and defeat."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on victory   

"Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded..."

Lorde, Audre on victory   

"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."

Phillips, Wendell on victory   

"There is no substitute for victory."

Macarthur, Douglas on victory   

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"You know how to conquer, Hannibal, but not how to profit by your victory."

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"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."

Mann, Horace on victory   

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"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."

Mason, Jackie on victory   

"We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel."

Meir, Golda on victory   

"We have all eternity to celebrate our victories, but only one short hour before sunset in which to win them."

Moffat, Robert on victory