VICTORY QUOTES III

quotations about victory

Victory always tastes sweetest after a bitter defeat.

DANIEL MONTGOMERY

"North Carolina Wins NCAA Championship", Fairfield Mirror, April 5, 2017


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


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 gay only back home. Up front it is joyless.

MARLENE DIETRICH

"Victory", Marlene Dietrich's ABC


Every step was a victory. He had to remember that.

GEORGE SAUNDERS

Tenth of December


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

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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners

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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

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There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.

ALISON GOODMAN

Eon: Dragoneye Reborn


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


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

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The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

attributed, Your Mind Power Unleashed


Victory brings us level with Heaven.

LUCRETIUS

De Rerum Natura

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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

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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


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

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We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.

EDWARD GIBBON

Sophia's Fire


If you associate with successful people, before long you will become successful. Their enthusiasm will be contagious and you will catch that vision. If you stay in an atmosphere of victory, before long you're going to have an image of victory.

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

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