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.
Victory is a thing of the will.
A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the conquered.)
The victorious cause pleased the gods, but the victory pleased Cato. [Lat., Victrix cause Diis placuit, sed victa Catoni.]
You know how to win victory, Hannibal, you do not how to use it [Lat., Vincere scis, Hannibal; victoria uti nescis.]
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!
Westminster Abbey, or Victory.
But if We have such another victory, we are undone.
The most dangerous moment comes with victory.
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
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.
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.
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
In war there is no substitute for victory.
Victory; a matter of staying power.
I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable.
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.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Victory and defeat are each of the same price.