Victor Quotes

Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Vistor Hugo. (Jean Cocteau)
The victor belongs to the spoils. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
No victor believes in chance. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers. View quote
Neville Chamberlain
Recipe for greatness To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to hate hate and to love love, to go on when it would seem good to die, to seek ever after the glory and the dream, to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be, that is what any man can do, and so be great. View quote
Zane Grey
The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused. View quote
Hermann Göring
Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization. View quote
Hideki Tōjō
The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran. View quote
Madeleine Albright
It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and one can imagine that Blair, twice victor abroad but enmired at home, is similarly seduced by foreign politeness. They say he is shortly off to the Congo. No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in Watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird. View quote
Boris Johnson
He who is running a race ought to endeavor and strive to the utmost of his ability to come off victor; but it is utterly wrong for him to trip up his competitor, or to push him aside. So in life it is not unfair for one to seek for himself what may accrue to his benefit; but it is not right to take it from another. (Chrysippus)
It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain in the form of Bismarckian or Hitlerian military force, has at last vanquished the victor by drawing Britain into a Zollverein which comprises Western Europe and aspires to comprise the Mediterranean as well. If the ghosts of the Hohenzollerns come back to haunt this planet, they must find a lot to laugh at. View quote
Enoch Powell
Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a nation, or city, or empire; or does fortune give this as an example to the victor also of the uncertainty of human affairs, which never continue in one stay? For what time can there be for us mortals to feel confident, when our victories over others especially compel us to dread fortune, and while we are exulting, the reflection that the fatal day comes now to one, now to another, in regular succession, dashes our joy. View quote
Plutarch
History is always written by the victor and histories of the vanquished belong to a shrinking circle of those who were there. View quote
Joachim Peiper
I shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerging a victor from it. No matter what the attacker might possess, no matter what method of unleashing nuclear war he chooses, he will not attain his aims. Retribution will inevitably ensue. View quote
Leonid Brezhnev
"I am the victor. In the end nothing else matters.' View quote
Christopher Paolini
Life is gamble, It's harsh and painful most of the time, and it's not for the timid. Spoils go to the victor, not to the one who doesn't even show up for the battle." -Acheron. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction. View quote
John Boyd Orr
If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is the heart of a victor. (Daisaku Ikeda)
Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen. View quote
Esther Williams
To the victor belong the responsibilities. View quote
Al Bernstein
And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five. View quote
James Merrill
Be a victor, not a victim. View quote
Joel Osteen