Motivational Quotes

Victory

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

- Abraham Lincoln

Best Quotes about Victory

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

Snoopy

Victory lies with the truth.

Motto

Victory; a matter of staying power.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lorde, Audre

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

Alger, William R.

Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.

Proverb

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Bee, Bernard Elliot

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

Gay, John

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There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.

Sun-tzu

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

Herrick, Robert

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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.

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Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Meir, Golda

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

Wickett, F. A.

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Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Survival is triumph enough.

Crews, Harry

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The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I will attained victory by God and my sword.

Motto

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One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

Josh Billings

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Virgil

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Pardon is the choicest flower of victory.

Proverb, Arabian

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Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

Polybius

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

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

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

Horace Mann

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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

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

Veeck, Bill

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Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

Plato

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

Hoffman, Paul

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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

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Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Samuelson, Joan Benoit

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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