Victory Quotes

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. (Aristotle)
If you live long enough, you'll see every victory turn into a defeat. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. View quote
Georges Clemenceau
Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Accept the challenges, so you may feel the exhilaration of victory. View quote
George S. Patton
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. View quote
Horace Mann
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win. View quote
Edward Gibbon
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
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. (Joseph Joubert)
Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat. View quote
Horatio Nelson
If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory. View quote
William Hazlitt
There is no substitute for victory. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death. View quote
Julian Simon
First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can. View quote
Horatio Nelson
Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack. View quote
Sun Tzu
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
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. View quote
Harry S. Truman
PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness. View quote
Beatrice Arthur
It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory. (George C. Marshall)
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. View quote
Isoroku Yamamoto
Today it is time for strong and courageous people because only they can achieve victory and rid the world of tyranny. View quote
Władysław Sikorski
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
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