#Victory Quotes

“Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave.”

“Then with the losers let it sympathize,For nothing can seem foul to those that win.”

“There is no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown.”

“Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!”

“A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.”

“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.”

“Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore”

“I came, saw, and overcame.”

“Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.”

“The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.”

“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”

“Wars are not won by evacuations.”

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

“No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.”

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

“Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.”

“Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.”

“The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.”

“When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne”

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

“Now the time is come,That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest,And let her head fall into England's lap.”

“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.”

“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.”

“...to win by one is enough.”

“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.”

“In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.”

“In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable”

“Without victory there is no survival!”

“Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.”

“Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves, and to save all those who rely upon you. You have only to go right on, and at the end of the road, be it short or long, victory and honor will be found.”

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

“Victory is only wrested by running risks.”

“History is written by the victors.”

“You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.”

“Victory and defeat are each of the same price.”

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

“Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.”

“Every victory accomplished with weapons is a funeral that should be mourned.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.”

“Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage.”

“It must be a peace without victory”

“There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory.”

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

“Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.”

“We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations”

“I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.”

“I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.”

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