After Victory Quotes

#1. What comes after victory? Why do people value victory so much? What is 'glory'? What kind of victory is 'glorious'?

Bruce Lee

#2. After victory, tighten the cords of your helmet.

Ieyasu Tokugawa

#3. What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts.

Pat Robertson

#4. After victory, you have more enemies.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#5. Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell lie; how much you want after victory nobody asks why?
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Adolf Hitler

#6. If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.

Arthur Ashe

#7. Accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated ... the only victory lay in the far future long after you were dead ...

George Orwell

#8. I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.

Matthew McConaughey

#9. Meeting smaller emergencies and learning to deal with them had given me the confidence to deal with this larger emergency. So, little by little, I found out how to do things. After each catastrophe you don't worry so much the next time, and each time you emerge stronger from your victory.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#10. Victory, after defeat, always tastes sweeter.

Ed Gawrys Jr

#11. Your struggles and tears will NEVER be wasted but will be transformed into a healing balm after your victory, release and manifestation comes. You've won already. Hold on just a little while longer. Everything will be alright. We serve a God whose Name is FAITHFUL.

Theresa Pecku-Laryea

#12. Do you realize that after eminent success in God's work, there is more need for prayer than when we are at the foothills of a struggle for survival? The moments of victory and success are more dangerous than moments of darkness and depression.

Oswald Chambers

#13. Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.

Neil Sheehan

#14. I enjoy the hunt much more than the 'good life' after the victory.

Carl Icahn

#15. It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

Victor Hugo

#16. Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.

Friedrich Engels

#17. After our humiliating loss of Alsace-Lorraine, France needs a victory to restore pride in the nation.

Jules Ferry

#18. The shot of Kapil Dev kissing the World Cup and hordes of Indian fans all over at Lord's is etched in my memory. Every Indian is proud of that victory, and every Indian player who has played the World Cup after that '83 win wants to bring the Cup home.

Suresh Raina

#19. All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards.

Octavia Butler

#20. Juno: "The heroes of olympus must unite! After your victory over kronos in manhattan ... well I fear that wounded jupiter's self-esteem."
Percy: Cause I was right and he was wrong"
Juno: "He should be used to that after being married to me so long, but alas.

Rick Riordan

#21. Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?

Niall Ferguson

#22. The Lord will give to truth and righteousness victory "at the last"; and, as Mr. Bunyan says, that means for ever, for nothing can come after the last.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#23. As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.

Stephen Fry

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

Winston Churchill

#25. I believe that Providence would never have allowed us to see the victory of the Movement if it had the intention after all to destroy us at the end.

Adolf Hitler

#26. She did not understand that there was no such thing as happiness, that the only victory lay in the far future, long after you were dead, that from the moment of declaring war on the Party it was better to think of yourself as a corpse.

George Orwell

#27. After every 'victory' you have more enemies.

Jeanette Winterson

#28. There was nothing unusual about my victory. The entire story was back in eighth place. There is simply no way to imagine how good Jim Ryun is or how far he will go after he becomes an adult. What he did was more significant than Roger Bannister's first mile under 4 minutes.

Dyrol Burleson

#29. But if victory is not theirs this time, it will be the next time. And if not the next time, then the time after that. The important thing is to get back on your feet.

Paulo Coelho

#30. It would be one of the great tragedies of history if at the very moment of the victory, now within our grasp, such distrust, such lack of faith, should prejudice the entire undertaking after the colossal losses of life, material and treasure. Churchill

David McCullough

#31. It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.

Martha Gellhorn

#32. Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.

Nick Hornby

#33. Fight only after creating conditions for victory.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

#34. What we are now doing with the victory, and I agree with you if you condemn that and I condemn whole-heartedly the trivial bullshit it is to go after a man who makes a scientific breakthrough and all that we as women - organized women - do is to fret about his shirt?

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#35. Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

Og Mandino

#36. We have reduced the kingdom of God to private piety, the victory of the cross to comfort for the conscience, and Easter itself to a happy, escapist ending after a sad, dark tale. Piety, conscience, and ultimate happiness are important, but not nearly as important as Jesus himself.

N. T. Wright

#37. To triumph fully, evil needs two victories, not one. The first victory happens when an evil deed is perpetrated; the second victory, when evil is returned. After the first victory, evil would die if the second victory did not infuse it with new life.

Miroslav Volf

#38. The battle proved a victory - at least in part - and soon after, his grandfather finally died, and Ser Elmo became Lord of Riverrun. But he did not long enjoy his station; he died on the march forty-nine days later, leaving his young son, Ser Kermit, to succeed him.

George R R Martin

#39. Tom's army won a great victory, after a long and hard-fought battle. Then the dead were counted, prisoners exchanged, the terms of the next disagreement agreed upon, and the day for the necessary battle appointed; after which the armies fell into line and marched away, and Tom turned homeward alone.

Mark Twain

#40. On Dec. 1, 1948, after the triumph of the revolution, which insured the final victory of the will of the people expressed through elections, President Jose Figueres abolished the army in my country.

Oscar Arias

#41. Let us be as watchful after the victory as before the battle.

Andrew Bonar

#42. After my victory at the Warriors 1, the self-proclaimed and well named Monarch of the Underworld, Dave Courtney, came up to me and commended me when he said, 'Richy, you can hit, I'm fucking glad you're not hitting me.' The way Dave said it and the expression on his face made me laugh.

Stephen Richards

#43. Sometimes fear comes, not before the battle or even in the midst of the battle, but after we have won the victory.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#44. In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

Alain Badiou

#45. War has frightful beauties which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the bodies of the dead after the victory. The dawn which follows a battle always rises on naked corpses.

Victor Hugo

#46. Do not be tired of doing good things. Victory comes after the battle; the crown follows the fight; the same way, behind purposeful actions is a great deal of success. Don't give up on the fight. Fight till them end; win till all is won.

Israelmore Ayivor

#47. The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.

Norman Finkelstein

#48. After you cross a hurdle, it looks so easy. Sometimes, it may feel that it was always possible. However, for that feeling of euphoria, you have to slog. After all, nothing comes for free!

Neelam Saxena Chandra

#49. Great captains earned their reputation not just for laying brilliant plans, but for still being able to find victory after those plans began to fall apart.

Robert Jordan

#50. Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.

Giulio Douhet

#51. One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.

Bradley Whitford

#52. If you # fail , learn. If you succeed, relish your # success . You can only know the sweet taste of # victory after many bitter struggles.

Robert Kiyosaki

#53. Most of the heroes of Scripture rose to their greatest victories after their worst mistakes. God is in the redemption business, and He testifies of this through the lives of everyone He calls.

Rick Joyner

#54. Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory is won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

Sun Tzu

#55. In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#56. It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.

Lou Holtz

#57. After a glorious victory in a grand war, the hardest battle to fight is the first little skirmish of the next campaign.

Pat Riley

#58. I really believed Obama when he spoke in 2008, but I remember watching his victory speech after this last election and it was the same speech. Exactly the same speech. I felt like he didn't even believe it anymore. He seemed to be tired of saying the same thing.

Andrew Dominik

#59. A good coach must celebrate in private. He cannot gloat to the press after a victory or criticize heavily after defeat ... His game is of such motivation and strategy that only a few people understand his craft.

Bill Bradley

#60. Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.

Max Schmeling

#61. Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.

Vicente Del Bosque

#62. The greatest figures in history are never the ones who avoid failure, but those who march chin-up through countless failures, one after the next, until they come upon the occasional victory.

William Ritter

#63. The upbeat DHS report was some kind of high-water mark for government gall - a tough record to beat. After sitting back and watching the Cabal do all the work, and nearly succeed, Uncle Sam finally found a role for himself: proclaim victory and then stick a flag in it!

Mark Bowden

#64. After these last weeks, I know I will allow nothing to keep you from me. I will not go down fighting. I will stay standing until I taste victory.

Kristen Ashley

#65. Victory, union, faith, identity, time,
The indissoluble compacts, riches, mystery,
Eternal progress, the kosmos, and the modern reports.
This, then, is life;
Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions."
-from "Starting from Paumanok

Walt Whitman

#66. The devil attacks most after a victory

Sunday Adelaja

#67. After a Great Victory.-The best thing in a great victory is that it deprives the conqueror of the fear of defeat. " Why should I not be worsted for once ? " he says to himself, " I am now rich enough to stand it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#68. 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

#69. You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.

Roger Kahn

#70. Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.

Jack Kevorkian

#71. Victory after all, I suppose! ... Well, it seems a very gloomy business.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#72. If you give up every time you don't achieve the immediate gain you want, you're just guaranteeing that the worst is going to happen ... You can't expect an easy victory after one protest march.

Noam Chomsky

#73. After India's victory in the war he was asked what would have happened if he had opted to be with the Pakistan Army at the time of partition in 1947, he quipped, then I guess Pakistan would have won.

Sam Manekshaw

#74. After the Cougars' 19-15 Cotton Bowl victory over Kansas State We're the only team in NCAA history to win 14 games in a season. It was just a great experience and I can't say enough about it ... People don't know how difficult it is to get up for 15 games.

LaVell Edwards

#75. Endurance, after all, was a kind of victory; a kind of heroism, too.

Orson Scott Card

#76. Victory should never be handed to you; it should be like crawling up on the beach after war.

Denise Wallace

#77. Tiger Woods did not always win majors with ease; after his narrow victory in the 1999 PGA, he slumped and sighed as if he'd been carrying rocks uphill all afternoon.

John Updike

#78. After my modest victory I played patience (the card game, not the virtue, never that) in the lounge, something I had not done since my ill-starred Tintagel honeymoon with Madame X.

David Mitchell

#79. If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory.

John Curtin

#80. Anyone who had died young after a happy childhood had won a great victory, since he would be forever spared the discovery of what sort of place the world really is. Others must look forward to death by defeat - their bodies gone, their world destroyed.

Carlos Baker

#81. My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Audrey Hepburn

#82. But on the day after a defeat, the men who matter are the leaders. Anyone can lead men after a victory. Only the best can lead after a defeat.

Christian Cameron

#83. but after WWII, politics began to impede American war fighting to the extent that victory is fleeting at best and unlikely at worst.

Billy Vaughn

#84. Defeat is only defeat if we accept it as defeat. Victory often comes after defeat, because one was too stubborn to allow it to be their reality. In the trail of any great conflict you will see the scuff marks, where the one was beaten down, but they could not be taught to stay that way.

Tom Althouse

#85. The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants.

Herman Gorter

#86. We cannot expect life to be perfect. But we can expect to see life come from death. We can expect to see morning after night. We can expect that acceptance of the struggle will give rise to the victory over self.

Joan D. Chittister

#87. A man's character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall.

John Cena

#88. Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#89. The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.

Vincent Van Gogh

#90. After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

Charles Spurgeon

#91. We have made major reforms in Greece. When I took over after a landslide victory we had a mandate for change and I knew my major focus would be re-organizing the state.

George Papandreou