Motivational Quotes

Victory

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Victory

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

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

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

Gay, John

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Hoffman, Paul

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Meir, Golda

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I will attained victory by God and my sword.

Motto

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

Snoopy

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

Moffat, 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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The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Pardon is the choicest flower of victory.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Lao-Tzu

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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Victory lies with the truth.

Motto

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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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A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Alger, William R.

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

Spengler, Oswald

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Samuelson, Joan Benoit

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lorde, Audre

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

Horace Mann

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Victory is increased by concord.

Motto

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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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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; a matter of staying power.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Survival is triumph enough.

Crews, Harry

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We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.

Edward Gibbon

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Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

Plato

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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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The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.

Pyrrhus

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

Virgil

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The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

Arthur Golden