Victory Quotes
After victory, tighten your helmet chord.Japanese Prove
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)
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.Blaise Pascal
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
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.Horace Mann, address at Antioch College, 1859
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
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.William Hazlitt
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
Victory is a political fiction.Anonymous
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
I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies for the hardest victort is the victory over self.Aristotle
Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhiliration of victory.George Smith Patton, Jr.
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.Jeseph Joubert
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
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
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
Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.Pyrrhus, from Plutarch, Lives
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
You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.Christy Mathewson
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
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
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
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
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
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.Mahatma Gandhi
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
There is no substitute for victory.General Douglas MacArthu
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
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
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.Buddha
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.Herodotus
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
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)
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.Bern Williams
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
