Victory Quotes

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

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

George Smith Patton, Jr.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Jeseph Joubert

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

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

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

Aristotle

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

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Mahatma Gandhi

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 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

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)

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

Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

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

Horace Mann

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

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

Horace Mann, address at Antioch College, 1859

After victory, tighten your helmet chord.

Japanese Prove

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

Ted W. Engstrom

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

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

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

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 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

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.

Pyrrhus, from Plutarch, Lives

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

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

Victory is a political fiction.

Anonymous

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Buddha

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

Martina Navratilova

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

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

Savielly Grigorievitcyh Tartakowe

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

Bern Williams

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