Quotes on Victory

I don't like to lose-at anything... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.

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

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

I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.

Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.

I am a Christian…so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory.

I always want to tell these young idealists that the world is not as dangerous as many in the older generation want them to believe...The [people] for whom I feel the greatest sadness are the ones who choke on their beliefs, who never act on their ideals, who never know the state of struggle in a decent cause, and never know the thrill of even partial victories.

You know that neither numbers nor strength give the victory, but that side which, with the assistance of the gods, attacks with the greatest resolution is generally irresistible.

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

Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

We raise our voices in holy gladness to celebrate the victory of the risen Christ over the terrible forces of death.

To help people believe they can achieve victory, put them in a position to experience small successes.

To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.

The great conquest is the result of small, unnoticed victories.

A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.

When two men step into the ring, one and only one deserves to win. When you step into the ring, you gotta know you deserve to win. You gotta know destiny owes you victory , cause you trained harder than your opponent. You sparred harder. You ran farther.

I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

The thrill of victory in business blows away the thrill of victory in sports. Business is a sport 24/7/365.

When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I at once sent word, however, to have it stopped. The Confederates were now our prisoners, and we did not want to exult over their downfall.