Motivational Quotes

Victory

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

- Polybius

Best Quotes about Victory

Survival is triumph enough.

Crews, Harry

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.

Victory is increased by concord.

Motto

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

Moffat, Robert

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

Snoopy

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

Bee, Bernard Elliot

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

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

Samuelson, Joan Benoit

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The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hoffman, Paul

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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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Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Arthur Golden

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

Gay, John

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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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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Pyrrhus

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Virgil

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Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Spengler, Oswald

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

Horace Mann

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Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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Pardon is the choicest flower of victory.

Proverb, Arabian

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I will attained victory by God and my sword.

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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Victory; a matter of staying power.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Lao-Tzu

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Victory lies with the truth.

Motto

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