Victory Quotes

Most popular victory quotes

The only victory over love is flight. - Napoleon quote.
The only victory over love is flight.
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 quote.
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.
To the victor belong the toils. - Adlai Stevenson quote.
To the victor belong the toils.
There is no substitute for victory. - Douglas MacArthur quote.
There is no substitute for victory.
Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.
I glory in conflict that I may hereafter exult in victory. - Frederick Douglass quote.
I glory in conflict that I may hereafter exult in victory.

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History is written by the winners. - Alex Haley quote.
History is written by the winners.
Winning is better than anything. Better than sex. Better than Christmas morning. - Bill Parcells quote.
Winning is better than anything. Better than sex. Better than Christmas morning.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. - Horace Mann quote.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

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Upon the fields of friendly strife
Are sown the seeds
That, upon other fields, on other days
Will bear the fruits of victory.

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When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far.
Victory is by nature haughty and insolent. - Cicero quote.
Victory is by nature haughty and insolent.
For every victory ... there is a price.
In its worst examples, victory has a lot in common with vulgarity.  In athletics, business, and the White House, we can hear the voice of victory reduced to language worthy of a kindergartner, a caveman, or a drunkard.
Victory is gay only back home.  Up front it is joyless. - Marlene Dietrich quote.
Victory is gay only back home.  Up front it is joyless.
The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.
All victories breed hate, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal. - Baltasar Gracian quote.
All victories breed hate, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.
The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them, like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy. - Mark Helprin quote.
The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them, like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.
Victory is not won in miles but in inches.  Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more. - Louis L'Amour quote.
Victory is not won in miles but in inches.  Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more.
Louis L'Amour A Trail of Memories: The Quotations of Louis L’Amour
The moment of greatest peril is the moment of victory. - Napoleon quote.
The moment of greatest peril is the moment of victory.
Napoleon Napoleon in His Own Words
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. - Martina Navratilova quote.
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
It is no doubt a good thing to conquer on the field of battle, but it needs greater wisdom and greater skill to make use of victory.
Another such victory and we are undone.
Pyrrhus Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
There is no pain in the wound received in the moment of victory. - Publilius Syrus quote.
There is no pain in the wound received in the moment of victory.
The Intoxication of Victory. - Arnold J. Toynbee quote.
The Intoxication of Victory.