Victory Quotes

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Conduct your triumph as a funeral.

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

Battles are won in the hearts of men.

O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead.

This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change.

If I persist long enough I will win.

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.

Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.

War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.

Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange.If we accept them we will never win.Since being realistic, as in mundane combats fistic,We will get a bloody nose and that's a sin.

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

A hit, a very palpable hit.

Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic.

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

I have the utmost confidence that through your efforts we will eventually beat the hell out of those bastards - You name them; I'll shoot them!

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

Full effort is full victory.

Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice!

Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness.

Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.

The American People in their Righteous Might will win through to Absolute Victory.

We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

I came, saw, and overcame.

It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.

The unyielding army will not win.

Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.

Millions who could not follow closely or accurately the main events of the War looked day after day in the papers for the fortunes of Mafeking, and when finally the news of its relief was flashed throughout the world, the streets of London became impassable, and the floods of sterling, cockney patriotism were released in such a deluge of unbridled, delirious joy as was never witnessed again till Armistace Night, 1918.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

Character is victory organized.

Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.

The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory

Wars are not won by evacuations.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.

Have taken Trier with two divisions. What do you want me to do? Give it back?

I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his generals and his leaders. I have even read his philosophers and listened to his music. I have studied in detail the account of every damned one of his battles. I know exactly how he will react under any given set of circumstances. And he hasn't the slightest idea of what I'm going to do. So when the time comes, I'm going to whip the hell out of him.

It must be a peace without victory... Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last.

Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles

And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside.

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.

Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable. And they have no Plan B.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.

Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride.

My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.

Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

Victory; a matter of staying power.

Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second