Motivational Quotes

Victory

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Victory

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

Herrick, Robert

The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.

Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Pardon is the choicest flower of victory.

Proverb, Arabian

I will attained victory by God and my sword.

Motto

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

Hoffman, Paul

10.

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

Abraham Lincoln

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gay, John

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Victory is increased by concord.

Motto

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

Virgil

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Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

Plato

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

Horace Mann

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Snoopy

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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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Victory lies with the truth.

Motto

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Spengler, Oswald

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Victory; a matter of staying power.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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 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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A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Edward Gibbon

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

Samuelson, Joan Benoit

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Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.