Victory Quotes

I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Now, however we have a new experience. We have a victory - a remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts.

Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.

Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.

When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves."

I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.

I do not pilfer victory.

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

...to win by one is enough.

I've found that South Africa has produced good leaders. These are people who realize that when there is danger, they should be in the forefront and when there is victory to be celebrated, they should be in the background, allowing their colleagues and the ordinary civilians - the man in the street - to rejoice and to celebrate that victory.

No Victory Without Suffering

If we aren't victorious, let no man come back alive!

It is war's prize to take all vantages;And ten to one is no impeach of valor.

Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options.

Then Aragorn stooped and looked in her face, and it was indeed white as a lily, cold as frost, and hard as graven stone. But he bent and kissed her on the brow, and called her softly, saying: 'Éowyn Éomund's daughter, awake! For your enemy has passed away!' - Aragorn & Éowyn

Win with me or watch me win.

History is written by the victors.

I shall fight on, I shall fight to win.

It must be a peace without victory

A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning andget under way.

I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory.

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it.

No matter what's going on in our lives, the victory is in refusing to quit.

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

Young Americans must never again be sent to fight and die unless we are prepared to let them win.

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.

If he's not dead, it doesn't count.

If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth.

When it looks impossible and you are ready to quit, victory is near!

We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.

The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

The Chinese people have stood up.

Carry the burden smilingly and cheerfully, because patience is the key to victory.

War is not won by victory.

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

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable

Although deceit is detestable in all other things, yet in the conduct of war it is laudable and honorable; and a commander who vanquishes an enemy by stratagem is equally praised with one who gains victory by force.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory

For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it.

Never in history has the navy landed an army at the planned time and place. But if you land us anywhere within 50 miles of Fedela and within 1 week of D-Day. I'll go ahead and win.

You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure you feel; but endeavour to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression that may be used with truth; such as, you understand the game better than I, but you are a little inattentive, or, you play too fast; or, you had the best of the game, but something happened to divert your thoughts, and that turned it in my favour.

I'm starting to cry. I'm remembering those years I struggled with my weight, those times when I saw my reflection in a store window and didn't know who that fat person was, years when it was a big accomplishment for me to exercise at two dots on the StairMaster. And now I'm finishing a 26-mile race. Damn! This is better than winning an Emmy!

Dead men have no victory.

To be a successful soldier you must know history. . . . What you must know is how man reacts. Weapons change but man who uses them changes not at all. To win battles you do not beat weapons - you beat the soul of man of the enemy man.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.

Here's to the confusion of our enemies!

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.