Victory Quotations

Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.

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

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

Victory is the child of preparation and determination.

At least is was a victory and at least we won

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

The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it.

I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.

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.

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.

Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others, not those who fight for power or glory. They must be made to understand that victory does not prove that the thing fought for is right, nor that defeat proves that a cause is wrong.

Women now influence the majority of consumer purchases. It is women's votes that will secure victory at the next election, hence the altogether delicious spectacle of Messrs Brown and Cameron vying to tell stories about broken nights and childcare as men once boasted of goals scored or pheasants bagged.

In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ.

Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.

The best policy is to declare victory and leave.

The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.

This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.

One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the chance to declare victory and move on to new frontiers.

The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

The true victory is the victory for democracy and pluralism.

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

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

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.

The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition.

The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.

My favorite actress of all times is Bette Davis in Dark Victory. I have seen it six or seven times, and I still cry.

I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.

Victory puts us on a level with heaven.

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

I would love to see Wladimir Klitschko fight Antonio Tarver for many reasons. One is Tarver talks a lot; he would build up a big fight. And Tarver is coming off of a great victory. So I think he would be a good opponent.

As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

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.

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

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

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

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

The success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium began, Russia made immediate efforts to counteract by invasion of East Prussia.

The Party of the Regions has won a convincing victory. We are ready to undertake responsibility for forming the Cabinet and we are calling on everyone to join us.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

I am the elected president of Liberia, not Ellen Sirleaf. They stole my victory, and I am here to say loud and clear that I am the winner of the elections.

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.

On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression.

The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.

V-J Day, or Victory in Japan Day, marks the date of the Japanese surrender that ended fighting in the Pacific.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement.

The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory.

One victory more or less doesn't make the difference for me now.

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team's victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

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

No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party.

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.

But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory....

The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics.

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.

For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

The victory of Hamas is not only based on the corruption of the Palestinian Authority. Hamas has a vision and a program, and this is the reason why the Palestinian people chose Hamas. However, there is no doubt that the corruption helped Hamas's victory.

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.

It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.