Motivational Quotes

Victory

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

Best Quotes about Victory

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

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

Macarthur, Douglas

A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Samuelson, Joan Benoit

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

Gay, John

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

Veeck, Bill

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

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

Lorde, Audre

Victory is increased by concord.

Motto

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

Foch, Ferdinand

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Survival is triumph enough.

Crews, Harry

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The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Spengler, Oswald

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Snoopy

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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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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Edward Gibbon

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I will attained victory by God and my sword.

Motto

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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 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 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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Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

Plato

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