Quotes on Victory

Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.

The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory

Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.

Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That’s the earth. Why it goes around. We’re the rocks. And what happens to us—the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse—why, that’s just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.

As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along.

Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was learning the secrets of victory, Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive.

This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change.

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

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