Quotes on Victory

The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

Author: Yasser Arafat

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

Author: Aristotle

Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory.

Author: Curtis Armstrong

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

You know, we - if, for example, Jerry Brown can withstand, you know, what will probably end up being $200 million of spending by his opponent and get elected governor of California, that will be a big victory in the nation's largest state.

Author: David Axelrod

I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.

Author: Ralph Bakshi

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

Author: Pedro Barca

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Author: Simone Beauvoir

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Author: Corrie Boom

The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I'm just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough.

Author: Sarah Brady

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.

Author: Carol Braun

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

Author: H. Brown, Jr.

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.

Author: Paul Bryant

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

Author: Pat Buchanan

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.

Author: Buddha

No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible.

Author: James Cannon

Victory is the only option. And we will be victorious in Iraq.

Author: Andrew Card

The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop.

Author: Margaret Carlson

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

Author: Giacomo Casanova

How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?

Author: Rene Cassin

To be prepared is half the victory.

Author: Miguel Cervantes

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

Author: Miguel Cervantes

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

Author: Winston Churchill

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

Author: Winston Churchill

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Author: Galeazzo Ciano

My winning is getting to perform. That's my victory.

Author: Kelly Clarkson

A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

Author: Pierre Corneille

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.

Author: Howard Cosell

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

Author: Richard DeVos

There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser.

Author: Buenaventura Durruti

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

Author: Dwight Eisenhower

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Author: Ted Engstrom

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

Author: Frederick Faber

The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls.

Author: John Flynn

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

Author: Ferdinand Foch

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Author: Malcolm Forbes

A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.

Author: Gerald Ford

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

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

If the tanks succeed, then victory follows.

Author: Heinz Guderian

V-J Day, or Victory in Japan Day, marks the date of the Japanese surrender that ended fighting in the Pacific.

Author: Doc Hastings

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.

Author: Hesiod

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

Author: Napoleon Hill

I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory.

Author: Martina Hingis

This is a very big victory for Michael and we are all very proud that he has been completely and totally vindicated in court, as we were certain he would be.

Author: LaToya Jackson

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

Author: Franz Kafka

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

Author: John Kennedy

Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.

Author: Billie King

The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.

Author: Jonathan Kozol

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

Author: Louis L'Amour

In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ.

Author: Kenneth Latourette

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

Author: Abraham Lincoln

My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.

Author: James Longstreet

Victory puts us on a level with heaven.

Author: Lucretius

It's a story about victory that will touch the lives of everyone who watches it. It's powerful.

Author: Derek Luke

The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.

Author: Rosa Luxemburg

There is no substitute for victory.

Author: Douglas MacArthur

One victory more or less doesn't make the difference for me now.

Author: Hermann Maier

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Author: Horace Mann

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

Author: Orison Marden

The harder the battle the sweet of jah victory.

Author: Bob Marley

In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable.

Author: Edward Marsh

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

Author: Christy Mathewson

Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.

Author: Melina Mercouri

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

Author: Ludwig Mises

Feed the troops on victory.

Author: John Monash

At least is was a victory and at least we won.

Author: Bobby Moore

The true victory is the victory for democracy and pluralism.

Author: Hosni Mubarak

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

Author: Martina Navratilova

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

Author: Horatio Nelson

I have worked closely with many of our county commissioners, mayors, local transportation officials, and others to determine project needs in the 18th District, and they deserve a great deal of thanks for today's victory on the House floor.

Author: Bob Ney

Victory belong to the most persevering.

Author: Andre Norton

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

Author: Ovid

My favorite actress of all times is Bette Davis in Dark Victory. I have seen it six or seven times, and I still cry.

Author: Bettie Page

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

Author: Blaise Pascal

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Author: Blaise Pascal

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

Author: George Patton

We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.

Author: Ralph Peters

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

Author: Plato

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.

Author: Plato

In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.

Author: Ernie Pyle

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.

Author: Pyrrhus

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Author: Jacob Riis

What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts.

Author: Pat Robertson

I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.

Author: Darrell Royal

The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.

Author: Damon Runyon

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

Author: Bill Russell

The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.

Author: David Sarnoff

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.

Author: Rose Schneiderman

We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.

Author: Ryan Seacrest

The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party.

Author: Chen Shui-bian

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

Author: Alexander Smith

This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.

Author: Charles Smith

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Author: Sophocles

The victory will be only entirely and finally achieved when the whole world is free of Jews.

Author: Julius Streicher

Where there is unity there is always victory.

Author: Publilius Syrus

And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

Author: Sachin Tendulkar

Victory must be assured in advance. And the American public must be all for it from the outset.

Author: Evan Thomas

Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.

Author: Bill Toomey

There is no one magic move or secret that creates victory, but lots of little items that when added together can make you victorious.

Author: Bill Toomey

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

Author: Sun Tzu

The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

Author: Ida Wells

One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.

Author: Bradley Whitford

The fight ended. For both was victory. For both there was defeat.

Author: Anna Wickham

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

Author: Bern Williams

The Party of the Regions has won a convincing victory. We are ready to undertake responsibility for forming the Cabinet and we are calling on everyone to join us.

Author: Viktor Yanukovych

Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom.

Author: Ahmed Yassin

We chose this road, and will end with martyrdom or victory.

Author: Ahmed Yassin

The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.

Author: Jose Zapatero

In the game of life, bravery is the controller that allows us to navigate through unknown territories and conquer our fears.

Author: Samantha Ross

Success is not defined by how often you win, but by how well you rise after a loss.

Author: Maya Johnson

Every adversity is a seed for growth, water it with resilience and watch it bloom into victory.

Author: Samantha Chang

The path to success is paved with many failures, but those who persevere will eventually find their way to victory.

Author: Sophia Nguyen

Adversity is the gateway to resilience, hope, and victory.

Author: Samantha Wright

Love always wins when kindness leads the way

Author: Julia Rose

The beauty of struggle lies in the possible triumph that awaits at the end of the hardship.

Author: Jasmine Santos

Fear is the thief of victory, while courage is its faithful ally.

Author: Sarah Smith

Where there is unity, there is strength; where there is strength, there is victory.

Author: Samantha Franklin

Through adversity comes strength; let your wounds be the reminder of the battles you've won.

Author: Sophia Martin

The bigger the challenge, the greater the victory.

Author: Sophia Johnson