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Quotes about Victory


If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death...

Julian Simon

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen stall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must when our cause it is just. And this be our motto, "In God is our trust!" And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Francis Scott Key

Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.

E. R. Stettinius, Anonymous

On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, on the dawn of victory, stopped to rest and resting died.

Omar Kayam

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.

Louisa May Alcott

Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.

Zig Ziglar

Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

General George Patton

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 victory.

Alfred North Whitehead

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Galeazzo Ciano

Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.

William Morris

Scarce one tall frigate walks the sea Or skirts the safer shores Of all that bore to victory Our stout old Commodores.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Galeazzo Ciano

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.

Dag Hammarskjold

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.

Dag Hammarskjold

The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.

Edmund Burke

Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

John Milton

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Victory goes to the player who makes the next to last mistake.

Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower

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

Christy Mathewson

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most [people's] minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

Barbara Deming

The best policy is to declare victory and leave.

George D. Aiken

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

Thomas Campbell

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