quotations about victory
Victory always tastes sweetest after a bitter defeat.
DANIEL MONTGOMERY
"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
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
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
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
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
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
Victory brings us level with Heaven.
LUCRETIUS
De Rerum Natura
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
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
Every step was a victory. He had to remember that.
GEORGE SAUNDERS
Tenth of December
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
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
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 think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners
Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.
TOBA BETA
Betelgeuse Incident
Not exactly a world class win but any victory is bound to boost confidence.
SHANE FAY
"Arsenal FC: The FA Cup is still a possibility", isportsweb, April 22, 2017
What men call triumph is a fanciful exaltation that may fall alike upon atoms and temples--a grandiose child of hope, whose mother is egoism and whose father is pain. Men, whose life is but a sensitive or oblivious second--a fleeting stampede within mist--seek the absurd consolation of believing that their work will become immortal, and this phantom lie has induced many a soldier to writhe upon some trivial battlefield and many a minor poet to fight with threats of the gutter.
MAXWELL BODENHEIM
Blackguard
The first day after a championship victory always sparks a mad grab for gear memorabilia as exhilarated shoppers wait impatiently for gratification.
KIM BHASIN
"Cubs victory caps at Chicago stores by 8 a.m. How'd they do that?", Seattle Times, November 23, 2016
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