Top 100 Quotes About Victory
#1. The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition.
Gustav Stresemann
#2. There are many paths to victory; choose the shortest one! There are many paths to defeat; choose the longest one!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#4. Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.
Robert H. Jackson
#6. The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory.
George S. Patton
#7. Despite the voices of the culture that would scream otherwise, victory is irreparably tied to the surrender of self. And that explains why so few are truly victorious.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#8. Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
Thomas Carlyle
#9. It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood.
Simone De Beauvoir
#10. For a kid, self-esteem can be as close at hand as a sports victory or a sense of belonging in a peer group. It's a much more complicated and elusive proposition for adults, subject to the responsibilities and vicissitudes of grown-up life.
Meghan Daum
#11. Replace those thoughts of worry with thoughts of hope, faith, and victory.
Joel Osteen
#12. The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world.
Francis Schaeffer
#13. We call for an end to the killing of one another, and we denounce the violence and fanaticism that threatens life. The victory of the resurrection must be experienced as a victory of life, of brotherhood, of the future, of hope.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I Of Constantinople
#14. The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.
Og Mandino
#15. 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
#16. The sweetest victory is that won when everyone counted you out because they believe you can not make it.
N.K.David
#17. To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#18. There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory
except a great defeat.
Duke Of Wellington
#19. Won without a drop of bloodshed. His mother had been right. That truly was the best victory.
Meljean Brook
#20. 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
#21. Anyway, that's not what I meant when I said Marco decides when he wins. You don't understand how slippery he can be. Whatever happens, he'll shift so it was his plan all along. If he were the last person alive, he'd say we needed the apocalypse and declare victory. It's what he is.
James S.A. Corey
#22. Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
George Eliot
#23. With Christ, darkness cannot succeed. Darkness will not gain victory over the light of Christ.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#24. Suffering is given to the living, not to the dead," he said looking right through me. "It is man's duty to make it cease, not to increase it. One hour of suffering less is already a victory over fate.
Elie Wiesel
#25. Your victory depends on how much you believe in God's power
Sunday Adelaja
#26. It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha
#27. 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
#28. If any overarching conclusion emerges from the Afghan and Iraq Wars (and from their Israeli equivalents), it's this: victory is a chimera.
Andrew Bacevich
#29. The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there ; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer.
Ferdinand Foch
#33. You have both contested well: the one is forced by his sorrow to lament, the other by the plaintiff's attack to tell the truth. So plaintiff, yours is the honour! And Death, yours is the victory! Every man is obliged to give his life to Death, his body to the earth, and his soul to Us.
Johannes Von Saaz
#34. I knew the point wasn't the victory, but pulling yourself together and crawling your way back. That was life.
Chloe Neill
#35. The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete ... not victory but combat ... not to have vanquished but to have fought well ... not winning but taking part ...
Pierre De Coubertin
#36. Sometimes life is your opponent and just showing up is a victory.
JohnA Passaro
#37. Opportunities are running out, and this is the do-or-die situation when the ball is in your hands, and you can either help your team to victory or not. And so I want to be in those situations. I think about them, and almost look forward to them.
Eli Manning
#38. A smart man understood that victory was not inevitable. An even smarter man knew that defeat was never really total if you figured out how to handle the aftermath with skill and just the right spin.
And the smartest men of all, even when they lost, they actually won.
David Baldacci
#39. I want to go to my grave a free man. Surviving against giants-that's victory.
Todd McFarlane
#40. Keep the Feast of the Resurrection. Be a Peter or a John; hasten to the Sepulchre, running together, running against one another, vying in the noble race (cf. Jn. 20:3-4). And even if you be beaten in speed, win the victory of zeal; not looking into the tomb, but going in.
Gregory Of Nazianzus
#41. Those who mourned needed to find meaning in their loss. When the British struck their Victory Medal for issue to all those who had served, they provided one answer: 'For Civilisation', it said.
Anonymous
#42. Victory is about recognizing all the work that went into achieving your dream.
Tommy Hilfiger
#43. Your thoughts about your circumstances have you down. On the other hand, you can be in one of the biggest battles of your life, and still be filled with joy and peace and victory - if you simply learn how to choose the right thought. It's time to think about what you're thinking about.
Joel Osteen
#44. The Lord has given an overcoming victory to every person who is born again.
T. B. Joshua
#45. No, we are not defeated; we are simply disobedient! It might be good if we stopped using the terms 'victory' and 'defeat' to describe our progress in holiness. Rather we should use the terms 'obedience' and 'disobedience.
Jerry Bridges
#46. Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.
Robert McKee
#47. Our greatest battle will always be against ourselves, and winning that battle will be our greatest victory.
Paul G. Brodie
#48. 'It is finished' will not be, as we know from the tradition of the ordering of these words from the cross, the last words of Jesus. 'It is finished' is a cry of victory.
Stanley Hauerwas
#49. The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.
Adolf Hitler
#50. It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.
John Phillips
#51. That says it all. When you say, 'Victory,' that says it all.
Drew Brees
#52. In the Vedic Calender, the year 2013 is said to be the year of Victory. Victory of the Good over Bad.It is said to begin in the end of march.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#53. An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory.
Gary L. Francione
#54. He left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out. Genesis 39:12 In contending with certain sins there remains no mode of victory but by flight.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#55. Tony Blair is already secretly grinning at the prospect of his third victory. You don't have to settle for that.
Michael Howard
#56. Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.
William Hartston
#57. It's a huge challenge for us to get the (43) car back to Victory Lane, to get the car in the Chase, to get back to where I would love to see us win the championship, ... Is it a reality next year You've seen a lot of things happen in the sport and you look at it and ask 'How'd that happen'
Robbie Loomis
#58. I looked over the despondency of the home crowd. Fools! Fools! I thought. Love it! Love the loss as well as the gain. Go home and dig it. Nobody was killed. We saw victory and defeat, and they were both wonderful.
Barry Hannah
#59. Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
[News conference, April 21 1961]
John F. Kennedy
#60. The will to victory may be demonstrated in places other than actual battle.
Steven Pressfield
#61. Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.
Nelson Mandela
#62. Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity.
Sun Tzu
#63. Blood and bone spread across the hallway floor in a glorious, arching victory rainbow.
James J. Caterino
#65. This is war. And victory is the only nobility.
Pierce Brown
#66. Victory gave us such insane delusions of grandeur that we helped start a world war we hadn't a chance of winning. But now that we are losing again, everything has taken a turn for the better, and we will certainly come out on top again if we succeed in being defeated.
Joseph Heller
#67. For the players to put their minds and vigour into the game is not enough for victory. They must also put in their souls. The team that gives up to the game all its strengths and puts into it its mind and soul cannot leave the court defeated.
Viacheslav Platonov
#68. There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
E. M. Forster
#69. But men inspired by prophecy will attempt any foolishness in the knowledge that the fates have ordained their victory.
Bernard Cornwell
#70. Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
Horatio Nelson
#71. Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
Lucy Stone
#72. Our battered armor and scarred countenances will render more glorious our victory above, when we are welcomed to the seats of those who have overcome the world. We
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#73. Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#74. There are so many ways to lose, but so few ways to win. Perhaps the best way to achieve victory is to master all the rules for disaster, and then concentrate on avoiding them.
Victor Niederhoffer
#75. Perhaps he should have fallen to his knees and given thanks to the gods for their unlikely victory but the red harvest sword-hacked and arrow-stuck about the ruin did not look like a thing to give thanks for.
Joe Abercrombie
#76. Christians need to have a mindset of victory, because God has destined us for victory
Sunday Adelaja
#77. The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly.
Hirohito
#79. Intelligence...[is] not marathon rac[e]: there is no fixed criteria for success, no start or finish lines -- and running sideways or backwards, might secure victory.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#80. Winners never suffer defeat, but rather just many setbacks on their way to victory.
Orrin Woodward
#81. Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.
Thomas Paine
#82. Victory was for those willing to fight and die. Intellectuals could theorize until they sucked their thumbs right off their hands, but in the real world, power still flowed from the barrel of a gun.
Mark Bowden
#83. Children believe what you promise. They are excited and expectant. Your nature must be like theirs: bold, daring, unafraid and eager to experience the victory God has already assured.
Thea Harris
#84. I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
Lucy Stone
#85. Your faith requires your action to back it up. Choose to see what part you must participate in to see your circumstance improve and personally grow and appreciate the victory because of it.
Dionna L. Hayden
#86. The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
Martina Navratilova
#87. The Provisional Government had lost effective military control of the capital a full two days before the armed uprising began. This was the essential fact of the whole insurrection: without it one cannot explain the ease of the Bolshevik victory.
Orlando Figes
#88. Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.
Sun Tzu
#90. The Voting Rights Act was a seminal victory for our country and a great healing moment. But there are some who want to continue to drive divisions and create phony narratives.
John Cornyn
#92. The hardship of the exercises is intended less to strengthen the back than to toughen the mind. The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has its legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.
Steven Pressfield
#93. What is a defeat? It is just a good opportunity to make a new start, nothing else! Defeat is by no means a tragedy, but to consider it as a tragedy is in fact the greatest tragedy! In your every defeat, you must know that the paths of the victory never disappear; try those roads again!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#94. We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.
Guy Finley
#95. The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
Pele
#96. Do not despair. In every defeat are found the seeds of victory.
Walter F. Mondale
#97. The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death.
Julian Lincoln Simon
#98. We lost 14 straight. Then we had a game rained out and it felt so good we had a victory dinner.
Lefty Gomez
#99. The beauty of the human race is not in its victory over evil, but the attempt.
Sarah Brownlee
#100. You can't talk mediocrity and expect to have victory. You are prophesying your future. If you want a shift to occur, you've got to think positive.
Joel Osteen
