Victory Quotes

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

Buddha

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhiliration of victory.

George Smith Patton, Jr.

I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.

Paula Giddings

An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory.

Gary L. Francione, (American Legal Philosopher), Reaction to quote by Joseph Joubert

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

Work is victory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - A magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - That can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

Walter Lord, World War II Memorial in Washington, DC

I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies for the hardest victort is the victory over self.

Aristotle

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

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

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

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

Orison Swett Marden

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

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Ted W. Engstrom

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Blaise Pascal

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

Georges Clemenceau

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

Horace Mann, address at Antioch College, 1859

Victory is a political fiction.

Anonymous

Victory goes to the player who makes the next - To - Last mistake.

Savielly Grigorievitcyh Tartakowe

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.

Og Mandino

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

Horace Mann

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

Bern Williams

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

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

The U. S. victory in Gulf war was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.

Dan Quayle, 4/11/91 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory.

General Douglas MacArthu

In war there is no substitute for victory.

General Douglas MacArthu

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)

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

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy - Invincible determination - - A purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

There is no substitute for victory.

General Douglas MacArthu

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

Christy Mathewson

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

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