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 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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

I will attained victory by God and my sword.

Motto

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

Jefferson, Thomas

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lao-Tzu

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Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.

Proverb

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Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Veeck, Bill

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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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Victory; a matter of staying power.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Gay, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Pyrrhus

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

Spengler, Oswald

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The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Pardon is the choicest flower of victory.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Arthur Golden

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Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

Plato

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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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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

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

Virgil

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