Victory Quotes

It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.

~ Philip Gibbs

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

~ Calvin Coolidge

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

~ Albert Pike

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

~ Robert H. Schuller

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

~ Edwin Markham

If we can actually decrease the failure rate from nine out of 10 drugs failing in clinical trials and instead have seven out of 10 instead failing, that is a major victory for drug discovery and for people having better therapy.

~ Anne Wojcicki

For a kid, self-esteem can be as close at hand as a sports victory or a sense of belonging in a peer group. It's a much more complicated and elusive proposition for adults, subject to the responsibilities and vicissitudes of grown-up life.

~ Meghan Daum

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

~ Bernard Williams

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

~ Alexander The Great

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

~ Hilaire Belloc

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

I love the smell of paper in the morning it smells like victory.

~ Alan Moore

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

~ Victoria Woodhull

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

~ George Santayana

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.

~ Howard Cosell

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

~ Dick Gregory

'What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery - believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.

~ Ben Macintyre

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

~ Alfred North Whitehead

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

~ Alexander Smith

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

~ Nelson Mandela

When news of the first plane's hitting the World Trade Center reached them, bin Laden's followers exploded with joy. But shrewder members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban leadership in Afghanistan realized that the attacks might not be the stunning victory that bin Laden, and many in the West, took them to be.

~ Peter Bergen

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

~ Benjamin Harrison

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

~ Louisa May Alcott

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

~ Harry S Truman

But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.

~ Hjalmar Schacht

Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.

~ Knute Rockne

The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene.

~ Elliott Abrams

I don't think anyone has qualms in saying victory to the people of India. But when a political party appropriates such a slogan and says this is the definition of patriotism, those who say it are patriotic and those who don't are not patriotic, then I reject that definition.

~ Palaniappan Chidambaram

We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.

~ Tullian Tchividjian

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

~ Herodotus

The rise of Breitbart is directly tied to being the voice of that center-right opposition. And, quite frankly, we're winning many, many victories. On the social conservative side, we're the voice of the anti-abortion movement, the voice of the traditional marriage movement, and I can tell you we're winning victory after victory after victory.

~ Stephen Bannon

Comrade Kim Jong Il, by continuing the march of Songun without interruption and with absolute trust in our service personnel and other people who were faithful to the Party's cause, led the socialist cause of Juche along the road of victory.

~ Kim Jong-Un

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you 'You're no good,' you don't have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

~ Joyce Meyer

People are always saying it's the end of the Gutenberg era. More to the point, it's a return to an oral era. The Gutenberg galaxy was about the written word. At its best, the digital era is part of the rediscovery of the oral. At its worst, it's a Kafkaesque victory of the bureaucratic over the imagination.

~ John Ralston Saul

Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.

~ Emil Zatopek

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

~ Sophocles

Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.

~ Bill Toomey

Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.

~ H. R. Mcmaster

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

~ George S. Patton