Motivational Quotes

Victory

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

- Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.

Proverb

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

Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Victory is increased by concord.

Motto

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Pardon is the choicest flower of victory.

Proverb, Arabian

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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 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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Victory lies with the truth.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Arthur Golden

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

Pyrrhus

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I will attained victory by God and my sword.

Motto

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Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

Plato

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Hoffman, Paul

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

Veeck, Bill

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

Horace Mann

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Survival is triumph enough.

Crews, Harry

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Gay, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Abraham Lincoln