Victory Quotes

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
- Anonymous Author

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

To perceive victory when it is known to all is not really skilful. Everyone calls victory in battle good, but it is not really good.
- Sun Tzu

It is imperative to contest all factions for complete victory, so the army is not garrisoned and the profit can be total. This is the law of strategic siege.
- Sun Tzu

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail.
- Woodrow T. Wilson

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.
- Sun-tzu

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
- Sun Tzu

In war, resolution, in defeat, defiance, in victory, magnanimity.
- Winston Churchill