quotations about victory
Victory always tastes sweetest after a bitter defeat.
DANIEL MONTGOMERY
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"North Carolina Wins NCAA Championship", Fairfield Mirror, April 5, 2017
The path to victory always depends on strategizing in a way the enemy doesn't expect.
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE
"Hillary Said the Nuclear Option is Always on the Table, Even Against Terrorists", Inquisitr, October 18, 2016
Victory is akin to ecstasy. It takes us past the limits of our ordinary happiness, while it also lets a sometimes vulgar lust for winning keep us company.
D. S. CARROLL
Victory Over Victory
In a victory speech, I like to thank the opposition, because without their help, I couldn't have won.
JAROD KINTZ
99 Cents For Some Nonsense
I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary's force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
The Complete Essays
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
his first speech as Prime Minister to the House of Commons, May 13, 1940
Victory brings us level with Heaven.
LUCRETIUS
De Rerum Natura
Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.
BRANDON SANDERSON
The Way of Kings
You can have success on the outside, but if you're bitter on the inside, it's going to spoil and taint every victory. You must deal with the inside first. You must get to the root of the problem; then you can really be happy. Then you can experience true, untainted, unalloyed victory in your life.
JOEL OSTEEN
Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
speech at the Hamilton Club, Chicago, April 10, 1899
I firmly believe that any man's finest hours--his greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear--is the moment when he has worked his heart out in good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle--victorious.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, "Greatest Vince Lombardi Quotes", NFL.com
Moral victories are nice, but they're completely worthless in the win column.
JUSTICE DELOS SANTOS
"Cal softball faces No. 8 Washington", The Daily Californian, April 27, 2017
Victory is gay only back home. Up front it is joyless.
MARLENE DIETRICH
"Victory", Marlene Dietrich's ABC
Victory is the end of generalship.
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners
Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
WILLIAM JAMES
"Is Life Worth Living?", The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
The first place we must win the victory is in our own minds. If you don't think you can be successful, then you never will be.
JOEL OSTEEN
Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
If you have a vision of victory for your life, you can rise to a new level. But as long as you have your head down, with your gaze on the ground instead of on your possibilities, you run the risk of moving in the wrong direction and missing out.
JOEL OSTEEN
Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.
TOBA BETA
Betelgeuse Incident
Victory is in many ways a poison chalice.
SCOTT PETERSON
"For Turkey's Erdogan, new powers present fresh challenges", Christian Science Monitor, April 24, 2017