Victory Quotes
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.Bern Williams
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
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
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)
You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.Christy Mathewson
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
After victory, tighten your helmet chord.Japanese Prove
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)
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
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
Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhiliration of victory.George Smith Patton, Jr.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.Martina Navratilova
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
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.Georges Clemenceau
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.William Hazlitt
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self - Discipline with all of them came first.Harry S Truman
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
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
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.Sun - Tzu
I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies for the hardest victort is the victory over self.Aristotle
Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.Pyrrhus, from Plutarch, Lives
God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.Alcoholics Anonymous Praye
Victory is a political fiction.Anonymous
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
Work is victory.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no substitute for victory.General Douglas MacArthu
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
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
Be ashamed to die unless you have won some victory for humanity.Horace Mann
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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
On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait, and waiting - - Died.George W. Cecil
Few take up the burden of their own victory: most give up their dreams when they become impossible.Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
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
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.Ted W. Engstrom
