Victory Quotes

The king should act with promptitude, for without promptitude of action mere destiny never accomplishes the objects cherished by kings. The question for whether it is the king that makes the age or the age that makes the king, the king should entertain no doubt. It is the king that makes the age.

~ Meera Uberoi

It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.

~ Eiji Yoshikawa

But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere.'They?' Who are 'they?'I don't know. Just people.That's what the victorious claim, not the defeated; the powerful, not the powerless. 'All is fair.' 'The end justifies the means.' Is that what you believe?

~ John Connolly

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

~ Sun Tzu

Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.

~ Bo Jackson

It’s true that the hatred is still there. But it doesn’t change anything. Our obligations are the same—to live and sanctify all life with our own. To participate in the world the best we know how, leaving it a better place than we found it. To raise families and teach our children to value life. What more can we do? Should we refuse to live because of the threat of death hanging over us? We’ve always been under sentence of death. Every generation that lives out its days in peace is a victory. Every day we live is a victory.

~ Ovadya Ben Malka

There's no such thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeated and humiliated people. Another place to guard and defend and fear.

~ Jeanette Winterson

In a victory speech, I always like to thank the opposition, because without their help and stupidity, I couldn’t have won.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.

~ Vālmīki

Happiness is not the victory, success or accomplishment; it is what happens at the end of the day?

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Peace is possible for dead bodies, living bodies can not expect peace on the way to the victory.

~ Amit Kalantri

The ordeal is not that truth does not win, it is that it wins in the end.

~ Raheel Farooq

Each year the winning team of the Super Bowl loses some ground (yardage) throughout the game. Yet they always keep their minds fixed on the goal, push through the opposition, and, as a result, advance to victory in the end.

~ Lisa Morrone

Draw from the unbeatable courage and love of Christ--don't stop short, He didn't.

~ Katy Kauffman

Life is an illusionist, proficient at its art.It proves to be bitter, an adversaryBut is indeed a friend in disguise, a silent well wisher.It forces us into arduous stations and assesses our limitations.It guides us to the path of defeat, even so secretly desires that we prove it wrong,It demands for us to rise despite the odds and lead it to, the path of victory.It is but a master illusionist.

~ Chirag Tulsiani

It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.

~ Mark Lawrence

God save me from another such victory.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

They dig holes from time to time,' the Colonel explains. 'It is probably for them what chess is for me. It has no special meaning, does not transport them anywhere. All of us dig at our own pure holes. We have nothing to achieve by our activities, nowhere to get to. Is there not something marvelous about this? We hurt no one and no one gets hurt. No victory, no defeat.

~ Haruki Murakami

I am not a person who goes in the side of the many, because I prefer the side of the victor.

~ Kenneth De Guzman

Stripping her of her name had been almost as satisfying as removing her dress.

~ Ania Szado

I know God love me, because my enemies don’t triumph over me.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.

~ Pindar

To help someone, or make them feel special; all it needs is to offer the tools which are thrust, and guidance, and show that you believe in the persons potential. The product is musical notes floating everywhere.”Katia M. S.

~ Katia M. S.

You're welcome in my house when this is over. We'll open a cask of Master al'Vere's best brandy. We'll remember those who fell, and we'll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned black and the world started to die. We'll tell them we stood shoulder to shoulder, and there was just no space for the Shadow to squeeze through.

~ Robert Jordan

Today is yesterday's victory, yesterday is tomorrow's conquest, and tomorrow is today's war. Though I face death, I am not fearsome.

~ Nadège Richards

Fear is the most insidious of weaknesses. You must learn to raze it from your soul, or risk defeat in all you do.

~ Courtney Schafer

I address the trophy and the warped reflection: All the pain and suffering you've caused me.

~ Andre Agassi

The sweetest victory is that won when everyone counted you out because they believe you can not make it.

~ N. K. David

It appears to me that one defeats God precisely by not trying to stand above God, but on the contrary by using God's own existence against God.

~ Lionel Suggs

It might be added, too, that it takes something more than preponderance of numbers to win a battle....

~ Burton E. Stevenson

They had gathered at Eastcheap to wait. At this time of day, the marketplace ought to have been thronged with people looking for bargains, moving from stall to stall, examining the fresh fish, choosing the plumpest hens, buying candles and pepper and needles. The stalls were open, but the fishmongers and cordwainers and butchers were doing no business, despite the growing crowd. The sun was hot, flies were thick, and the odors pungent; no one complained, though. They talked and gossiped among themselves, strangers soon becoming friends, for the normally fractious and outspoken Londoners had forgotten their differences, at least for a day, united in a common purpose and determined to revel in their triumph, for they were pragmatic enough to understand this might be their only one. Now they joked and swapped rumors and waited with uncommon patience, and at last they heard a cry, swiftly picked up and echoed across the marketplace: “She is coming!

~ Sharon Kay Penman

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.

~ Miguel De Unamuno

Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.

~ Hernan Cortes

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

~ Douglas Haig

In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

~ Isoroku Yamamoto

In war there is no substitute for victory.

~ Douglas Macarthur

The Japanese scored an important victory at Pearl Harbor, but the attack pulled the United States into World War II, and four years later, Japan was in ruins, utterly defeated.

~ Peter L. Bergen

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

~ John F. Kennedy

The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.

~ Henry L. Stimson