Victory Quotes - Page 5

• Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Fighting, Results, Judo

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.84

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• Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Work

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.435

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• The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Success, Peace, Freedom

  United Nations Bulletin Vol. XVI, No. 4, February 15, 1954.

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• Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Disappointment, Defeat, Nevertheless

  Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”, p.288

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• Pursue not a victory too far. He hath conquered well that hath made his enemy fly; thou mayest beat him to a desperate resistance, which may ruin thee.

  George Herbert

  Enemy, May, Ruins

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• You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.' You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory-victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

  Winston Churchill

  Change, Giving Up, War

  Hansard 13 May 1940, col. 1502

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• Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.

  Philip Sidney

  Hero, Glory, Prey

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.62

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• Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Failure, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win. "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he, "But 'twas a famous victory."

  Robert Southey

  Fighting, Winning, Littles

  "The Battle of Blenheim" l. 61 (1798)

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

  Yasser Arafat

  Flags, Jerusalem, March

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, War, Victory And Defeat

  "Marlborough; his life and times".

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• Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Strength, Struggle, Winning

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• Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Lying, Fighting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• And either victory, or else a grave.

  William Shakespeare

  Graves

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.146

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• Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.

  Stephen Covey

  Algebra, Calculus

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.226, Mango Media Inc.

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• The victory of endurance born.

  William C. Bryant

  Endurance, Born

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Battle-Field”

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• The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.

  Winston Churchill

  Fate, Unconquerable Will, Territory

  Message to people of Europe launching V for Victory propaganda campaign, 20 July 1941

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

  Golda Meir

  Humorous, Israel, Cotton

  Golda Meir, Israel Shenker, Mary Shenker (1970). “As good as Golda: the warmth and wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister”

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

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Enemy, Way

  Corrie ten Boom (2009). “Not Good if Detached”, p.91, CLC Publications

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• One more such victory and we are undone.

  Pyrrhus of Epirus

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Quoted in Plutarch, Parallel Lives

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• Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Causes, Losing, Defeat

  "Royal Truths".

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• Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

  Frederick William Faber

  Temptation, Resistance, Moments

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• A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.

  Arthur Golden

  Inspirational, Success, Fear

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• Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Deep Thought, Details, Defeat

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.11, Open Road Media

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