Motivational Quotes

Victory

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

- Pyrrhus

Best Quotes about Victory

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

Arthur Golden

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

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

Josh Billings

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

Polybius

Pardon is the choicest flower of victory.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Lorde, Audre

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

10.

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

Abraham Lincoln

11.

The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

Victory is increased by concord.

Motto

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

Samuelson, Joan Benoit

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Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Gay, John

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

20.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Survival is triumph enough.

Crews, Harry

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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Horace Mann

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hoffman, Paul

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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 most dangerous moment comes with victory.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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I will attained victory by God and my sword.

Motto

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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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Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

Plato

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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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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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Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.

Proverb

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Spengler, Oswald

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

Alger, William R.