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Victory Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Victory

The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill

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Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort.
Full effort is full victory.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment,
full effort is full victory.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman

Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt

The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu

If you seek truth, you will not seek
victory by dishonorable means,
and if you find truth, you will become invincible.
- Epictetus

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

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets,
but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
- Abraham Lincoln

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory.
It can no longer serve to settle disputes...
can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
- John F. Kennedy

Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb

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

Life always rides in strength to victory,
not through internationalism...
but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Victory has a thousand fathers,
but defeat is an orphan.
- John F. Kennedy

Deserve Victory.
- Terry Goodkind

How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu

It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha

Victor Quotes and Sayings

An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
- Victor Hugo

Music expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo

Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.

The supreme happiness of life
is the conviction of being loved for yourself,
or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
- Victor Hugo

My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo

To love beauty is to see light.
- Victor Hugo

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo

Victories Quotes and Sayings

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Know that the essence of life is not
in the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Trust yourself. Only you can live your life.
Only you can taste your victories.
Only you can suffer the sting of your defeats.
Make your own choices, and accept your own consequences -
for better or worse.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Victorious Quotes and Sayings

You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus

Victors Quotes and Sayings

History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill

History Quotes and Sayings

The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everything we say, do, think, and feel
is a product of our personal history
and the collective history of humankind.
Our name for these histories is "prejudice."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everything we believe is a matter of evolution and history.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In the long history of humankind (and animal-kind, too)
those who learned to collaborate and
improvise most effectively have prevailed.
- Charles Darwin

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better
by all parties to leave the past to history,
especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill

The lessons of the past provide the path to the future.
- Anonymous

History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill

The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain

Those that fail to learn from history
are doomed to repeat it.
- Winston Churchill

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
- Virginia Woolf

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
- Edward R. Murrow

Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill

For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead

The awareness that health is dependent
upon habits that we control
makes us the first generation in history
that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
- Jimmy Carter

Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree
is connected with that of man.
- Henry David Thoreau

History is a relentless master.
It has no present, only the past rushing into the future.
To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
- John F. Kennedy

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man.
They die up to a point.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Thanks to television, for the first time
the young are seeing history made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government
results from too much government.
- Thomas Jefferson

The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation

The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement
for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests.
We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction
of international tensions and would open the way
to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India,
history will look upon the act of
depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen Covey

What is history but a fable agreed upon?
- Napoleon Bonaparte

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely
only after they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban

A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson

Study history, study history.
In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
- Winston Churchill

It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung

History does not long entrust the care of freedom
to the weak or the timid.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

We would like to live as we once lived,
but history will not permit it.
- John F. Kennedy

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy
of this period of social transition
was not the strident clamor of the bad people,
but the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind
in the history of the world or to make it the last.
- John F. Kennedy

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down
on the tracks of history
to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The history of free men is never really written by chance
but by choice; their choice!
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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