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

Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

Herrick, Robert

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

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

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

Arthur Golden

A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

Jefferson, Thomas

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

Alger, William R.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Abraham Lincoln

10.

I will attained victory by God and my sword.

Motto

11.

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

12.

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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Victory is increased by concord.

Motto

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Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

15.

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

Veeck, Bill

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

Macarthur, Douglas

17.

Victory; a matter of staying power.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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

Hoffman, Paul

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Josh Billings

21.

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

Samuelson, Joan Benoit

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

24.

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

Proverb, Chinese

25.

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

Plato

26.

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

Spengler, Oswald

27.

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Snoopy

30.

Victory lies with the truth.

Motto

31.

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

Foch, Ferdinand

32.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

33.

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.

34.

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.

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

Lorde, Audre

36.

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.

37.

Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.

Proverb

38.

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

Virgil

39.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

41.

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

42.

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

Pyrrhus

43.

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

45.

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

Bee, Bernard Elliot

46.

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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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.