Motivational Quotes

Victory

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.

Best Quotes about Victory

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.

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

Plato

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

Samuelson, Joan Benoit

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

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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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Pardon is the choicest flower of victory.

Proverb, Arabian

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Victory is increased by concord.

Motto

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

Horace Mann

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

Hoffman, Paul

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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 honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Snoopy

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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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Victory; a matter of staying power.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Survival is triumph enough.

Crews, Harry

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Gay, John

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

Pyrrhus

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Victory lies with the truth.

Motto

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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 matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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.