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

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

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

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

William Hazlitt

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

Herbert Kaufman

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

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

Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

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

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

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

Jeseph Joubert

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

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

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

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

George Smith Patton, Jr.

Victory is a political fiction.

Anonymous

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