Victory Quotes

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  Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Positive, Success, Gymnastics

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• The victory's in believing.

  James Russell Lowell

  Believe, Belief

  James Russell Lowell (1898). “Poems of James Russell Lowell With Biographical Sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole”, p.323, Library of Alexandria

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• I think that both here and in England there are two schools of thought--those who would be altruistic in regard to the Germans, hoping that by loving kindness to make them Christian again--and those who would adopt a much tougher attitude. Most decidedly I belong to the latter school, for though I am not blood-thirsty, I want the Germans to know that this time at least they have definitely lost the war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Christian, Attitude, Kindness

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• In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.

  Charles Stanley

  Events, Defeat, Know How

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• The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came. Anticipate your battles; fight them on your knees before temptation comes, and you will always have victory.

  R. A. Torrey

  Motivational, Success, Christian

  R. A. Torrey, Edward D. Andrews (2016). “CHRISTIAN LIVING: How to Succeed in the Christian Life [Updated and Expanded]”, p.259, Christian Publishing House

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• We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Eden, Example, May

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• Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.70, Penguin

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

  George S. Patton

  Life, Strength, Courage

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• You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• You're gonna have to go through hell, worse than any nightmare you've ever dreamed. But when it's over, I know you'll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. DO IT!

  Tony Burton

  Motivational, Sports, Dream

  "Rocky's Tony Burton Dead at 78: Sylvester Stallone Remembers His Onscreen Trainer With Sweet Instagram" by Bruna Nessif, www.eonline.com. February 26, 2016.

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• The art of victory is learned in defeat.

  Simon Bolivar

  Art, Defeat

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  I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

  George S. Patton

  Motivational, Military, War

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• I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

  Og Mandino

  Struggle, Victory And Defeat, Obstacles

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

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• Victory belongs to the most persevering.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  "Excellent Quotations for Home and School" by Julia B. Hoitt, (p. 51), 1888.

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• The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

  Saint Augustine

  People, Hippo, Conqueror

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.139, Catholic Way Publishing

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• The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

  Pele

  Sports, Inspiration, Athlete

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• Attitude is the ability to reframe the experience to empower you to future victories

  Orrin Woodward

  Attitude, Empowering, Ability

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• The smile of God is victory.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Smile

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1850). “Poems by John G. Whittier”, p.198

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• Nothing paralyzes our lives like the attitude that things can never change. We need to remind ourselves that God can change things. Outlook determines outcome. If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Change, Attitude, Christian Inspirational

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Speech to Hamilton Club, Chicago, Ill., 10 Apr. 1899 See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 18

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• Full effort is full victory.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Persistence, Effort

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.154, A&C Black

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• Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.

  Basil King

  Success, Knowing, Worry

  Basil King (2012). “The Conquest of Fear”, p.36, tredition

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

  William Hazlitt

  Faith, War, Winning

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1260, Delphi Classics

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• Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Achievement, Career Change

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