Victory Quotes

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
After victory, tighten your helmet chord.
Japanese Prove
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Douglas MacArthu
Few take up the burden of their own victory: most give up their dreams when they become impossible.
Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
Dan quayle, 4/11/91 (reported in esquire, 8/92) - the u. s. victory in gulf war was a stirring...
There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
Gary l. francione, (american legal philosopher), reaction to quote by joseph joubert - an aim of an argument should be progress, but...
Alcoholics anonymous praye - god, i offer myself to thee, to build with me and...
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Shards of Honor", 1986
Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.
Dan Quayle, remarks at Arlington National Cemetery
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
William Hazlitt
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Victory has a thousand fathers; defeat is an orphan.
John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]., p289. Comment made by JFK in the aftermath of the fai
A coalition of groups... is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. ... an all - Out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him. On Watergate crisis.
Gerald R. Ford
There is no substitute for victory.
General Douglas MacArthu
Victory is a political fiction.
Anonymous
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
Mahatma Gandhi
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
Benjamin Franklin
I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - True equals - Only when they both have equal confidence.
Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
Martina Navratilova
Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhiliration of victory.
George Smith Patton, Jr.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
Pyrrhus, from Plutarch, Lives
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
Ted W. Engstrom
Invincibility lies in the defense the possibility of victory in the attack. One defends when his strength is inadequate he attacks when it is abundant.
Sun - Tzu
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The Way of Heaven does not compete, And yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.
Lao Tzu
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
Blaise Pascal
In war there is no substitute for victory.
General Douglas MacArthu
This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.
Victoria Lincoln
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
Georges Clemenceau
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena
Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.
Lao - Tzu
VICTORY - Champions have it deep inside of them - A dream, a desire, a vision. They have the last minute stamina. They have to be a little faster. They have to have the will and the skill. But the will must be greater than the skill.
Muhhammad Ali
You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
Christy Mathewson
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
Buddha
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Work is victory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson