Victory Quotes

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Nelson Mandela

Leadership, Nice, Others

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

Yourself, Win, Cannot

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.
Theodore Roosevelt

Failure, Live, Win

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle

Self, Him, Desires

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

Long, Hard, May

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
Abraham Lincoln

Give, Necessary, Peaceful

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.
Bob Marley

Battle, Talk, Sweet

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Douglas MacArthur

Strong, Humble, Enough

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
Winston Churchill

Before, After, Defeat

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill

Problems, Difficult, Less

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
John F. Kennedy

Defeat, Thousand, Fathers

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Mahatma Gandhi

Effort, Lies, Full

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
Benjamin Franklin

Good, Sometimes, Affairs

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
John F. Kennedy

Great, War, Alone

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Lao Tzu

Men, Rejoice, Delight

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
Sun Tzu

Men, Conquer, Strategy

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
George S. Patton

Accept, Challenges

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
Paul Bryant

Yourself, Pride, Winner

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
Napoleon Hill

Person, Fighting, Possible

Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.
Sun Tzu

Lies, Attack, Defence

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.
Sun Tzu

Live, Able, Situation

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.
George S. Patton

Men, May, Spirit

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Plato

Yourself, Greatest, Conquer

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.
Anthony Hamilton

Patience, Pain, Learned

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Norman Vincent Peale

Life, Happiness, Fighting

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Plato

Best, Another, Himself

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Lose, Speech, Expect

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
B. R. Ambedkar

History, Themselves, Ethics

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
J. Donald Walters

Peace, Trying, Find

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
Sun Tzu

War, Battle, After

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