Motivational Quotes

Victory

The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Victory

Survival is triumph enough.

Crews, Harry

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

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

Arthur Golden

There is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.

Bee, Bernard Elliot

Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

Jefferson, Thomas

I will attained victory by God and my sword.

Motto

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Hoffman, Paul

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Virgil

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

Snoopy

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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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Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.

Proverb

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Victory; a matter of staying power.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Edward Gibbon

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Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

Plato

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

Pyrrhus

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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 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 belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Samuelson, Joan Benoit

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Pardon is the choicest flower of victory.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Victory is increased by concord.

Motto

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Horace Mann

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

Josh Billings