First Victory Quotes

#1. I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.

Haile Gebrselassie

#2. In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves ... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Harry Truman

#3. 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

#4. Do not enter with defeat in your heart for that is the first victory of evil.

Margaret Weis

#5. As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along.

Stephen King

#6. Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.

Socrates

#7. I was left there alone - winner of the field. It was the hardest battle I had fought, and the first victory I had gained.

Charlotte Bronte

#8. The most important thing for a fighter pilot is to get his first victory without too much shock.

Werner Molders

#9. 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

#10. There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Plato

#11. Factors in the art of warfare are: First, calculations; second, quantities; third, logistics; fourth, the balance of power; and fifth, the possibility of victory is based on the balance of power.

Sun Tzu

#12. In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat; but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress towards a victory.

Alfred North Whitehead

#13. Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006.

Elliott Abrams

#14. When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I at once sent word, however, to have it stopped. The Confederates were now our prisoners, and we did not want to exult over their downfall.

Ulysses S. Grant

#15. Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.

Franz Grillparzer

#16. I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing.

Joan Didion

#17. Use the first moments in study. You may miss many an opportunity for quick victory this way, but the moments of study are insurance of success. Take your time and be sure.

Frank Herbert

#18. First of all a person has to get victory over himself.

Sunday Adelaja

#19. Desert Storm was a war which involved the massive use of air power and a victory achieved by the U.S. and multinational air force units. It was also the first war in history in which air power was used to defeat ground forces.

Merrill McPeak

#20. This victory is in large part due to the Internet ... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security of the entire world without being a superpower.

Jody Williams

#21. Deliverance is always found on 'the mount'; living faith must first prove to God that it has taken His word and promise for victory.

Rees Howells

#22. Four generals
Set our for Iran.
With the first one, war did not agree.
The second never won a victory.
For the third the weather never was right.
For the fourth the men would never fight.
Four generals
And not a single man!

Bertolt Brecht

#23. First and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered By self is, of all things. the most shameful and objectionable.

Plato

#24. I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.

Emanuel Steward

#25. He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be dampened. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength.

Sun Tzu

#26. What Saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it?

Jerome

#27. Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.

Michael Schumacher

#28. Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.

Ron Fournier

#29. It wasn't until '79 I won my first amateur championship, and then, by '81, I was 14, and I won my first world championship, which was amazing to me, and in a very real sense, that was the first real victory I had.

Rodney Mullen

#30. But in that first flush of victory and happiness and relief, and God knows what other emotions were involved in this great moment, we were all very much one, and we were all in a state of euphoria, drunk with our happiness.

Harry Bernstein

#31. As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.

Adam Hochschild

#32. Whether in commerce, administration, or on the battlefield, leaders who win understand the Secret of Victory: Act first to finish first.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

#33. The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Corrie Ten Boom

#34. I was just as in love with her in our eleventh year as I was in the first. Every anniversary was a victory, a middle finger to everyone who thought we wouldn't last. Abby tamed me, marriage settled me down, and when I became a father, my entire outlook changed.

Jamie McGuire

#35. 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

#36. First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

Horatio Nelson

#37. Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.

Sun Tzu

#38. Fear is never a good counselor and victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.

Nikolai A. Berdyaev

#39. I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory think, 'I'm back.' I don't think like that. I'll definitely work hard. Things are not going to be easy. I might lose first round next week. You never know.

Kim Clijsters

#40. The first and best victory is to conquer self

Plato

#41. This nation should be less worried about putting the Vietnam syndrome behind us than restarting the World War II victory syndrome that resulted in the Vietnam syndrome in the first place.

Karl Marlantes

#42. First lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle; if you will not begin with stratagem but rely on brute strength alone, victory will no longer be assured

Sun Tzu

#43. The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you have the right policy and the right strategy, you always have a chance of winning. Without them, you can lose no matter how certain the victory seems.

Tony Blair

#44. Any victory is first won spirituality.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#45. Jessica became my first enemy. Like most enemies in my life, I hoped to punish her with passive-aggressive glances and silent-but passionate!-resentment. She retaliated by forgetting I existed. Ah, the moral victory.

Anna Kendrick

#46. Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.

Andre Gide

#47. The victorious army is victorious first and seeks battle later; the defeated army seeks battle first and seeks victory later.

Sun Tzu

#48. All action must be performed with detachment. Regard pain, pleasure; gain, loss; victory, defeat as equal. Battle for battle's sake with your mind completely on what you must do. With this knowledge there is no waster even in the first attempt. There are no impediments.

Meera Uberoi

#49. The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

#50. There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American people, which should be our first priority.

John Breaux

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

Plato

#52. Charity is the secret weapon Jesus Christ places in our hands, the only thing that can assure us of victory.
The first on to use it will win.

Marcial MacIel

#53. He that seeketh victory over his nature, let him not set himself too great, nor too small tasks; for the first will make him dejected by often failings; and the second will make him a small proceeder, though often by prevailings.

Francis Bacon

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

Pat Riley

#55. The presence of the devil is on the first page of the Bible, and the Bible ends as well with the presence of the devil, with the victory of God over the devil.

Pope Francis

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. Until you prevail with God, you cannot prevail with men; your victory has to be spiritual first, before it is physical.

Chris Oyakhilome

#59. The experiences of men who walked with God in olden times agree to teach that the Lord cannot fully bless the a man until He has first conquered him. The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.

A.W. Tozer

#60. In a competition of love we'll all share in the victory, no matter who comes first

Muhammad Ali

#61. There are always two kinds of people in every country: Progressives and reactionaries; wise people and ignorant; democrats and fascists; libertarians and oppressive. All struggles happen between these two parties. If you are in the first group, your greatest reward will be dignity and victory!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#62. Winning does not always mean coming in first ... real victory is in arriving at the finish line with no regrets because you know you've gone all out.

Apolo Ohno

#63. For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped it to conquer Spain and organize Fatimid Egypt.

Fernand Braudel

#64. President Bush announced that the war in Iraq has been won. It's all over, it's been won. I believe this would be Bush's first uncontested victory.

David Letterman

#65. The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

Ferdinand Foch

#66. 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

#67. Winning is an inside job. A person who achieves victory is the one that first wins his or her internal battles.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#68. Christ's whole life on earth was the assertion and example of true manliness - the setting forth in living act and word what man is meant to be, and how he should carry himself in this world of God - one long campaign in which the temptation stands out as the first great battle and victory.

Thomas Hughes

#69. Monogamy was the first form of the family not founded on natural, but on economic conditions, viz.: the victory of private property over primitive and natural collectivism.

Friedrich Engels