Won Quotes

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. (Horace Mann)
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory. View quote
George S. Patton
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Pessimism never won any battle. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. View quote
George S. Patton
If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won. View quote
Linus Torvalds
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. View quote
Franklin Pierce Adams
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore. View quote
Golda Meir
The United States never lost a war or won a conference. View quote
Will Rogers
The war is won, but the peace is not. View quote
Albert Einstein
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 S. Truman)
The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. View quote
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
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. View quote
Muhammad Ali
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. View quote
Hannah Arendt
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it. View quote
Sallust
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. View quote
Pierre Corneille
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause. (Fredrik Bajer)
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more. View quote
Louis L'Amour
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it-always... View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. View quote
José Martí
The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won. View quote
Charles Godfrey Leland