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Quotes about Victory


Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.

Emily Dickinson

Victory is a thing of the will.

General Ferdinand Foch

A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the conquered.)

General Ferdinand Foch

The victorious cause pleased the gods, but the victory pleased Cato. [Lat., Victrix cause Diis placuit, sed victa Catoni.]

Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)

You know how to win victory, Hannibal, you do not how to use it [Lat., Vincere scis, Hannibal; victoria uti nescis.]

Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Maharbal

Then should some cloud pass over The brow of sire or lover, Think 'tis the shade By Victory made Whose wings right o'er us hover!

Thomas Moore

Westminster Abbey, or Victory.

Lord Horatio Nelson

But if We have such another victory, we are undone.

Alexander Pope

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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

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.

Howard Cosell

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Blaise Pascal

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

Ferdinand Foch

In war there is no substitute for victory.

General Douglas MacArthur

Victory; a matter of staying power.

Elbert Hubbard

I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.

Joan Benoit Samuelson

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Count Galeazzo Ciano

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

Oswald Spengler

In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

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

Edmund Aristotle

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

Thomas Jefferson

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