"The best policy is to declare victory and leave." —George D Aiken on Victory
"Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious." —Robert Burns on Victory
"Who thought he'd won The field as certain as a gun." —James Butler on Victory
"Out spoke the victor then, As he hail'd them o'er the wave, Ye are brothers! ye are men! And we conquer but to save; So peace instead of death let us bring; But yield, proud foe, let us bring; With the crews, at England's feet, And make submission meet To our King." —Thomas Campbell on Victory
"Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan." —Thomas Campbell on Victory
"Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear." —Emily Dickinson on Victory
"Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished." —General Ferdinand Foch on Victory
"Victory is a thing of the will." —General Ferdinand Foch on Victory
"A Cadmean victory. " —General Ferdinand Foch on Victory
"To the victors belong the spoils. " —General Ferdinand Foch on Victory
"From what far, heavenly height of hope Didst thou descend to light our way, Cleaving with flash of snowy robe Time's dusky veil of twilight gray?" —Julia Larned on Victory
"Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations would not wish to disturb it . . . so that the confidence of the German people shall be put in the equity of their cause and not in the might of their armies." —David Lloyd George on Victory
"The victorious cause pleased the gods, but the victory pleased Cato. " —Lucanus on Victory
"You know how to win victory, Hannibal, you do not how to use it " —Maharbal on Victory
"They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy." —William L Marcy on Victory
"Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe." —John Milton on Victory
"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories." —Michael Eyquen on Victory
"Then should some cloud pass over The brow of sire or lover, Think 'tis the shade By Victory made Whose wings right o'er us hover!" —Thomas Moore on Victory
"Westminster Abbey, or Victory." —Lord Horatio Nelson on Victory
"Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey." —Lord Horatio Nelson on Victory
"We have met the enemy and they are ours." —Oliver Hazard Perry on Victory
"Woe to the vanquished! " —Plautus on Victory
"We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms." —Alexander Pope on Victory
"But if We have such another victory, we are undone." —Alexander Pope on Victory
"Hail! Thou as victor crowned. " —B G Schumacher on Victory
"The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered." —St Augustine on Victory
"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights." —Muhammad Ali on Victory
"The most dangerous moment comes with victory." —Napoleon Bonaparte on Victory
"Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat." —Malcolm Forbes on Victory
"One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it." —Pedro Calderón De La Barca on Victory
"There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win." —Elie Wiesel on Victory
"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." —Winston Churchill on Victory
"There are many victories worse than a defeat." —George Eliot on Victory
"The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give." —Howard Cosell on Victory
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." —Thomas Paine on Victory
"Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory." —Ralph Waldo Emerson on Victory
"It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory." —Blaise Pascal on Victory
"The will to conquer is the first condition of victory." —Ferdinand Foch on Victory
"In war there is no substitute for victory." —General Douglas MacArthur on Victory
"Victory; a matter of staying power." —Elbert Hubbard on Victory
"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." —Vince Lombardi on Victory
"I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway." —Joan Benoit Samuelson on Victory
"As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan." —Count Galeazzo Ciano on Victory
"The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious." —Oswald Spengler on Victory
"In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable." —Sir Winston Churchill on Victory
"The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, physically, morally and spiritually defeated." —F A Wickett on Victory
"The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory." —Edmund Burke on Victory
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self." —Aristotle on Victory
"Not might but light lit Maccabees' lamp through the night." —O Anna Niemus on Victory
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." —Red Sanders on Victory
"We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace." —Paul Hoffman on Victory
"For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes--not that you won or lost--but how you played the Game." —Grantland Rice on Victory
"I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing." —Bill Veeck on Victory
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." —Douglas Macarthur on Victory
"No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat." —John Gay on Victory
"Victory and defeat are each of the same price." —Thomas Jefferson on Victory
"The greatest conquerer is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow." —Chinese Proverb on Victory
"The smile of God is victory." —John Greenleaf Whittier on Victory
"The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides." —Ralph Waldo Emerson on Victory
"One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it." —Barca on Victory
"One by one in many countries they break through the ice of fear.. cups of crocuses .. stand up in caucuses .. East to West from Africa to the Caucusus and state their eternal allegiance to the Creator Sun." —Saiom Shriver on Victory
"Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting." —Henry Ward Beecher on Victory
"Victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan." —Proverb on Victory
"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories." —Douglas Macarthur on Victory
"I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!" —Woodrow Wilson on Victory
"Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories." —Abraham Lincoln on Victory
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One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Josh Billings, as quoted in Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia (1962) by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 601
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte, as quoted in Excellent Quotations for Home and School (1888) by Julia B. Hoitt, p. 51
The most dangerous moment comes with victory.
Napoleon Bonaparte, as quoted in Your Mind Power Unleashed (2001) by Thomas W. Foster, p. 123
There is good, in one view, in feeling that we have crossed the Rubicon and are in for it; then we shall hold stoutly on; otherwise, we may be advancing with only half a heart. And there are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole one makes just the difference between signal defeat and splendid victory.
Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd in The Every-day Philosopher in Town and Country (1865), p. 101
Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, 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.
Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, after taking office as Prime Minister (13 May 1940)
The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
There are two kinds of defeat. Whether in chains or in laurels, Liberty knows nothing but victories.
Wendell Phillips in "The Lesson of the Hour" (1 November 1859); published in Echoes of Harper's Ferry (1860) edited by James Redpath; also called "John Brown and the Spirit of Fifty-nine"
Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
Pyrrhus of Epirus, in a statement that is the origin of the term "Pyrrhic victory"
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. ... Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt, in a speech at the Hamilton Club, Chicago (10 April 1899)
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt, in "Citizenship in a Republic " a speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, France (23 Apirl 1910)
An attitude of moderation is apt to be misunderstood when passions are greatly excited and when victory is apt to rest with the extremists on one side or the other; yet I think it is in the long run the only wise attitude.
I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
