Victory Quotes

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 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)

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

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

Bern Williams

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

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

Mohandas Karamchand 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

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

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

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 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)

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

Ted W. Engstrom

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

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

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

Victory is a political fiction.

Anonymous

Work is victory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

Horace Mann

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

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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 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

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

Savielly Grigorievitcyh Tartakowe

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

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

Horace Mann, address at Antioch College, 1859

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

Buddha

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

Few take up the burden of their own victory: most give up their dreams when they become impossible.

Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

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

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

Arthur 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

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