Quotes about victory

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

— William R. Alger

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

— Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley

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

— St. Augustine

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

— Bernard Elliot Bee

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I came, I saw, I conquered.

— Julius Caesar

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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

— Thomas Carlyle

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.

— Winston Churchill

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

— Marcus T. Cicero

A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

— Pierre Corneille

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.

— Howard Cosell

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

— Stephen R. Covey

Survival is triumph enough.

— Harry Crews

Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

— Ferdinand Foch

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

— Malcolm S. Forbes

No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.

— John Gay

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

— Robert Herrick

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

— Paul Hoffman

Victory; a matter of staying power.

— Elbert Hubbard

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

— Thomas Jefferson

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.

— Basil King

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

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

— Lao-Tzu

Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.

— Abraham Lincoln

In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— Audre Lorde

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

— Wendell Phillips

There is no substitute for victory.

— Douglas Macarthur

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

— Macherbal

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

— Horace Mann

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

— Jackie Mason

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

— Golda Meir

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

— Robert Moffat

The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

— Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Victory lies with the truth.

— Motto

I will attained victory by God and my sword.

— Motto

Victory is increased by concord.

— Motto

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

— Martina Navratilova

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

— Plato

Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.

— Proverb

Pardon is the choicest flower of victory.

— Arabian Proverb

The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow.

— Chinese Proverb

No cross no crown.

— Francis Quarles

I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.

— Joan Benoit Samuelson

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I feel sorry for someone who has to win at everything.

— Snoopy

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

— Oswald Spengler

Victory is a political fiction.

— Source Unknown

The victor belongs to the spoils.

— Source Unknown

I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.

— Bill Veeck

Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.

— Virgil

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.

— F. A. Wickett

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!

— Woodrow T. Wilson

The sweetness of victory is undermined only by its lack of nutritional content.

— Michael Wakcher

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for the good men to do nothing.

— Edmund Burke