Famous Victory Quotes in English with Images

There are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole heart makes just the difference between signal defeat and a splendid victory.

- A.H.K. Boyd

Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

- Nolan Buhnell

The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities… It is best to win without fighting.

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.

- Howard Cosell

Far better it is 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 the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered 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 nor defeat.

- Theodore Roosevelt

The courses of the Victory were absorbed into the main, then her topsails went, and then her top-gallants. She was now no more than a dead fly’s wing on a sheet of spider’s web; and even this fragment diminished. Anne could hardly bear to see the end, and yet she resolved not to flinch. The admiral’s flag sank behind the watery line, and in a minute the very trunk of the last main-mast stole away. The Victory was gone.

- Thomas Hardy

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

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves.  There must be contests, and you must win.

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

- Victory Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

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Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Victory is a political fiction.

- Anonymous

The victory of endurance born.

- William Cullen Bryant

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

- Ferdinand Foch

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

- Blaise Pascal

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you live long enough, you'll see every victory turn into a defeat.

- Simone de Beauvoir

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

- General George S. Patton

There are always survivors at a massacre.  Among the victors, if nowhere else.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

- Lao-Tzu

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

- Edwin Markham

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

- St. Augustine

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!

- Woodrow T. Wilson

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

To the girls that gave me a hard time in high school. I want to say thank you. This is a victory for all the nerds out there.

- Amy Van Dyken

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

- Winston Churchill

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

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.

- General George Marshall