Moral Victory Quotes

#1. In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished. The triumph of sin in 1865 would have stimulated and helped to civilize both sides.

H.L. Mencken

#2. To win a moral victory at the expense of your sanity is dumb.

Stuart Wilde

#3. A heroic moral victory for the New York Mets,. It may be the only kind of victory we're achieving this season, but he set a good example for professional athletes and the rest of us.

David Brooks

#4. So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.

Adam Schiff

#5. The final act of an unraveling society isn't immoral behavior; it's canonizing immoral behavior as a 'new normal' and celebrating it as a 'moral victory.'

Jeff Iorg

#6. By exposing the fallacy of the UK's extradition arrangements with the US, I leave with my head held high having won the moral victory.

Babar Ahmad

#7. I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.

Lucy Stone

#8. 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

#9. Growing a pair is a state of mind, an attitude, and a way of thinking. It's about giving up being a victim and taking control of your life at every level. It is the willingness to do the right thing even when everyone else is doing the wrong thing.

Larry Winget

#10. Cary and I are working together on another movie, Charlotte's Web.

Thomas Haden Church

#11. Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.

A.W. Tozer

#12. True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

Emile M. Cioran

#13. The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.

Samuel Smiles

#14. In my case, the business chose me.

Ronald Meyer

#15. I oppose amnesty, I oppose citizenship, I oppose legalization for illegal aliens. I always have and I always will.

Ted Cruz

#16. Victory carries a moral burden the vanquished never know, and as an architect of momentous events, Lawrence would be uniquely haunted by what he saw and did during the Great Loot.

Scott Anderson

#17. We are destroying the world's greatest pharmacy. It is very important that we protect the rainforest in everything that we do.

Chris Kilham

#18. There is beauty when something
works and it works intuitively.

Jonathan Ive

#19. Women's rights, men's rights-human rights-all are threatened by the everpresent specter of war so destructive now of human material and moral values as to render victory indistinguishable from defeat.

Rosika Schwimmer

#20. It is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will for victory, clear goals before them, high moral standards, and devotion to the banner under which they go into battle.

Georgy Zhukov

#21. There aren't any moral victories.

DeMarcus Ware

#22. It was [Totila's] constant theme, that national vice and ruin are inseparably connected; that victory is the fruit of moral as well as military virtue; and that the prince, and even the people, are responsible for the crimes which they neglect to punish.

Edward Gibbon

#23. Victory is always valid, if people treat each other with moral behavior, such as teamwork.

Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury

#24. Because she was stuck in a cabin with a murdering madman who thought she was his queen and intended to bind her to him until she died

Kristen Ashley

#25. The moral complexity of the situation had grown past his ability to process it, so he just relaxed in the warm glow of victory instead.

James S.A. Corey

#26. It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.

Leila Josefowicz

#27. I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.

Bobby Bowden

#28. War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.

Sri Aurobindo

#29. The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.

Jonathan Kozol