Victory Quotes
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
You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.Christy Mathewson
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
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.Mahatma Gandhi
Few take up the burden of their own victory: most give up their dreams when they become impossible.Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
There is no substitute for victory.General Douglas MacArthu
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
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.William Hazlitt
Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhiliration of victory.George Smith Patton, Jr.
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.Buddha
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
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
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.Georges Clemenceau
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.Bern Williams
To save a Life in defeat, is to receive Victory and Honor.The Best of the Best (motion picture)
In war there is no substitute for victory.General 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
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
Victory goes to the player who makes the next - To - Last mistake.Savielly Grigorievitcyh Tartakowe
Be ashamed to die unless you have won some victory for humanity.Horace Mann
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
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.Blaise Pascal
After victory, tighten your helmet chord.Japanese Prove
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
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 belongs to the most persevering.Napoleon Bonaparte
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
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 moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.Martina Navratilova
There is no victory at bargain basement prices.Dwight D Eisenhowe
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
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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)
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)
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
