Motivational Quotes

Victory

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Victory

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

Plato

The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Pardon is the choicest flower of victory.

Proverb, Arabian

Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.

Proverb

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

Gay, John

10.

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

11.

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

Survival is triumph enough.

Crews, Harry

13.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

14.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

15.

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

Arthur Golden

16.

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

Herrick, Robert

17.

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

Veeck, Bill

18.

A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

Josh Billings

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Edward Gibbon

23.

Victory; a matter of staying power.

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

26.

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

Abraham Lincoln

27.

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

Horace Mann

28.

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

Jefferson, Thomas

29.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Victory is increased by concord.

Motto

31.

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

Spengler, Oswald

32.

I will attained victory by God and my sword.

Motto

33.

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

Foch, Ferdinand

34.

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

Hoffman, Paul

35.

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

Snoopy

36.

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

Moffat, Robert

37.

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

Alger, William R.

38.

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

Lorde, Audre

39.

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

Meir, Golda

40.

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

Samuelson, Joan Benoit

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Victory lies with the truth.

Motto

44.

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