Victory famous quotes
04-17-2025
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The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.
-- A.J. Cronin -
Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho
-- Aaron Allston -
Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident. I accepted those victories as I accept this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily.
-- Abebe Bikila -
Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
-- Aberjhani -
Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
We didn't see [the NBA lockout] as a victory at all. It was far from what we set it out to accomplish in bargaining, but I thought it was a fair compromise.
-- Adam Silver -
On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
The German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves. This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.
-- Adolf Galland -
Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell lie; how much you want after victory nobody asks why?
-- Adolf Hitler -
Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards whether he told the truth or not. When starting and waging war it is not right that matters, but victory.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic invention, has thrown him back fifteen centuries. The only thing that would be still worse would be victory for the Jew through Bolshevism. If Bolshevism triumphed, mankind would lose the gift of laughter and joy. It would become merely a shapeless mass, doomed to grayness and despair.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Being daily better informed about their knowledge than my adversaries themselves, I argued till finally one day they applied the one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history.
-- Adolf Hitler -
A victory at Kursk would shine like a beacon to the world!
-- Adolf Hitler -
If I put things between me and Christ, it is idolatry. If I put Christ between me and things, it is victory!
-- Adrian Rogers -
Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.
-- Ahmed Yassin -
The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
The experiences of men who walked with God in olden times agree to teach that the Lord cannot fully bless the a man until He has first conquered him. The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory.
-- Aime Cesaire -
In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
-- Alain Badiou -
Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
-- Alain de Botton -
Lukashenko grabbed victory through force and lies.
-- Alaksandar Milinkievic -
It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands.
-- Alan Keyes -
Let's keep our chins up and our knees down - we're on the victory side.
-- Alan Redpath -
Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished.
-- Alastair Reynolds -
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
-- Albert Pike -
The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?
-- Aldrich Ames -
By seizing the formerly little-known Height 102.0 - the Mamayev Hill - the Red Army fought its way to the fascists' den - Berlin. We are proud to say that our victory in Stalingrad radically changed the whole situation in the Second World War. And this victory meant that our Motherland had withstood one of the most difficult tests in its history.
-- Aleksandr Vasilevsky -
I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own powers arising out of his overwhelming victory in New York, 1927, and his underestimation of mine.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
Once we have chosen the right formation in the centre we have created opportunities for our pieces and laid the foundation of subsequent victory.
-- Alexander Kotov -
I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
-- Alexander Smith -
Judgment of eye, speed and attack are the basis of victory.
-- Alexander Suvorov -
Fortune seized at the right moment gives victory.
-- Alexander Suvorov -
Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?
-- Alexander the Great -
I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory.
-- Alexander the Great -
There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.
-- Alison Goodman -
The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
-- Alva Myrdal -
Never Try To Ruin Someone.. That's Bad Karma.. Let Them Ruin Themselves The Victory Is That Much Sweeter. You Reap What You Sow!
-- Amanda Bynes -
I pray not for victory, but to do my best.
-- Amos Alonzo Stagg -
If you would live in victory . . . you must refuse to be dominated by the seen and the felt.
-- Amy Carmichael -
There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace.
-- Amy Carmichael -
One can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.
-- Anderson Silva -
No one can know what happiness is if you have not gone through the disappointmentOne can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.
-- Anderson Silva -
The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest notion of what victory would look like, how it would be won, and what it might cost approached standards hitherto achieved only by slightly mad German warlords.
-- Andrew Bacevich -
Victory is the only option. And we will be victorious in Iraq.
-- Andrew Card -
Victory is the most important aspect in Iraq, because victory in Iraq will help us have victory in the War on Terror.
-- Andrew Card -
But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life
-- Angela Davis -
You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.
-- Ann Brashares -
Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.
-- Anthony Burgess -
If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.
-- Antoine R. Ivins -
A thought is truly sought only if it has got, in latent or potent form, the strength of 'WE' which sounds as 'V' that stands for 'VICTORY', and so it reflects the power of a true leader who as writer or speaker involves everyone alike at the same level.
-- Anuj -
Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.
-- Anwar Sadat -
We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are.
-- Arianna Huffington -
The spot where God's triumph is achieved, God's victory over sin, over lawlessness, is the cross of Calvary- the cross on which the Son of God died. In that cross and through the cross the works of the devil were destroyed, and the One who conquered him is yet to bruise the serpent's head in the final triumph when He comes again, as recorded in prophecy.
-- Arno C. Gaebelein -
Here is a philosophy of boldness to take advantage of every tiny opening toward victory.
-- Arnold Palmer -
Look for small victories and build on that. Each small victory, even if it is just getting up five minutes earlier, gives you confidence. You realize that these little victories make you feel great, and you keep going. You realize that being paralyzed by fear of failure is worse than failure.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.
-- Arthur Ashe -
When an unconquered country is conquered, people are killed... . That the beloved of the Gods finds very pitiful and grievous. ... If anyone does him wrong, it will be forgiven as far as it can be forgiven... . The beloved of the Gods considers that the greatest of all victories is the victory of righteousness.
-- Ashoka -
Learn from each one of your defeats; your losses must be as close to you as your victories.
-- Ashot Nadanian -
Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong.
-- Atal Bihari Vajpayee -
Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded...
-- Audre Lorde -
My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
What we are now doing with the victory, and I agree with you if you condemn that and I condemn whole-heartedly the trivial bullshit it is to go after a man who makes a scientific breakthrough and all that we as women — organized women — do is to fret about his shirt?
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
-- B. R. Ambedkar -
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics.
-- B. R. Ambedkar -
Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.
-- Ba Jin -
By exposing the fallacy of the UK’s extradition arrangements with the US, I leave with my head held high having won the moral victory.
-- Babar Ahmad -
Every literate woman is a victory over poverty
-- Ban Ki-moon -
We wouldn't even be where we are had it not been that 70% of Hispanics voted for President Obama, voted Democratic in the last election. That caused an epiphany in the Senate, that's for sure. So all of a sudden we have already passed comprehensive immigration reform in the Senate. That's a big victory.
-- Barack Obama -
The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.
-- Bear Bryant -
When people come and see my show, I try to infuse into them that they can walk away feeling like their lives are a victory.
-- Ben Vereen -
I count it as a major victory to not only be on a series that's had a full season run, but to actually be on one that's gotten picked up for a second season.
-- Benjamin Bratt -
In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.
-- Benjamin Cardozo -
Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.
-- Benjamin De Casseres -
If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory.
-- Benjamin Netanyahu -
I am not overstatingthis; the anointing is mandatory if you are called to serve The Lord. Without it there will be no growth, no blessing, no victory in your ministry.
-- Benny Hinn -
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
-- Bernard Williams -
She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life made up of advances that were actually frantic retreats and victories that were concealed defeats.
-- Bernhard Schlink -
My path to victory is to talk about the issues that impact the lives of millions of Americans.
-- Bernie Sanders -
When you walk with Jesus, defeat turns into victory.
-- Beth Moore -
God wants to bring victory to a people who recognize who brought it.
-- Beth Moore -
An ongoing relationship with God through His Word is essential to the Christian's consistent victory!
-- Beth Moore -
My favorite actress of all times is Bette Davis in Dark Victory. I have seen it six or seven times, and I still cry.
-- Bettie Page -
I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.
-- Bill Ayers -
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.
-- Bill Bowerman -
Don't let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.
-- Bill Cosby -
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
-- Bill Russell -
Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.
-- Bill Toomey -
There is no magic move or secret that creates victory but lots of little items that, when added together, can make you victorious.
-- Bill Toomey -
It's always been my belief that the victory of Islam will never take place until a Muslim state is established.. in the heart of the Islamic world.
-- Bill Vaughan
