Victory Quotes
There is no victory at bargain basement prices.Dwight D Eisenhowe
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
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.Bern Williams
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
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
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
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
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)
Victory goes to the player who makes the next - To - Last mistake.Savielly Grigorievitcyh Tartakowe
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
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.Buddha
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
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
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
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
Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.Pyrrhus, from Plutarch, Lives
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.Christy Mathewson
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 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 until you have won some victory for humanity.Horace Mann, address at Antioch College, 1859
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
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
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.Jeseph Joubert
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
Few take up the burden of their own victory: most give up their dreams when they become impossible.Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
Victory belongs to the most persevering.Napoleon Bonaparte
Work is victory.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be ashamed to die unless you have won some victory for humanity.Horace Mann
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 moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.Martina Navratilova
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)
After victory, tighten your helmet chord.Japanese Prove
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
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha