Quotes

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

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
-Harry S Truman

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
-Ralph W. Sockman

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

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

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

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
-Golda Meir

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
-Thomas Jefferson

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

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

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
-Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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

According to my assessment, even if you have many more troops than others, how can that help you to victory?.
-Sun Tzu

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
-Sun Tzu

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
-Douglas MacArthur

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
-MalcolmS

If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.
-William Hazlitt

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
-Louis L'Amour

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind.
-Horace Mann

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

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

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

To save a Life in defeat, is to receive Victory and Honor.
-Anonymous Author

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
-Douglas MacArthur

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

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

Expect victory and you make victory.
-Preston Bradley

The first and best victory is to conquer self, to be conquered by self is of all things most shameful and vile.
-Plato

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

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

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

Whether in chains or in laurels,liberty knows nothing but victories.
-Douglas MacArthur

We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.
-Edward Gibbon