Victory Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

75 Victory Quotes
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“Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.”
Malcolm S. Forbes Quotes
“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.”
Winston Churchill Quotes
“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind”
Horace Mann Quotes
“If you can accept losing, you can't win.”
Vince Lombardi Quotes
“Expect victory and you make victory.”
Preston Bradley Quotes
“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 Quotes
“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 Quotes
“Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the Attack.”
Sun Tzu Quotes
“Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.”
Arthur Ashe Quotes
“If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.”
William Hazlitt Quotes
“The best policy is to declare victory and leave.”
George D. Aiken Quotes
Source: said during the Vietnam ear
“Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.”
Robert Burns Quotes
Source: Tam o' Shanter
“Who thought he'd won The field as certain as a gun.”
James Butler, first Duke of Ormonde Quotes
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 11)
“Out spoke the victor then, As he hail'd them o'er the wave, Ye are brothers! ye are men! And we conquer but to save; So peace instead of death let us bring; But yield, proud foe, let us bring; With the crews, at England's feet, And make submission meet To our King.”
Thomas Campbell Quotes
Source: The Battle of the Baltic
“Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.”
Thomas Campbell Quotes
Source: The Battle of the Baltic
“Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.”
Emily Dickinson Quotes
Source: Poems--Success
“Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished.”
General Ferdinand Foch Quotes
Source: as reported by G. Ward Price in the London "Daily Mail"
“Victory is a thing of the will.”
General Ferdinand Foch Quotes
Source: one of his favorite maxims
“A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the conquered.)”
General Ferdinand Foch Quotes
Source: one of his favorite maxims
“To the victors belong the spoils. (The spoils to the victors.)”
General Ferdinand Foch Quotes
Source: one of his favorite maxims
“From what far, heavenly height of hope Didst thou descend to light our way, Cleaving with flash of snowy robe Time's dusky veil of twilight gray?”
Julia Larned Quotes
Source: The Winged Victory
“Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations would not wish to disturb it . . . so that the confidence of the German people shall be put in the equity of their cause and not in the might of their armies.”
David Lloyd George Quotes
Source: in a speech at Glasgow
“The victorious cause pleased the gods, but the victory pleased Cato. [Lat., Victrix cause Diis placuit, sed victa Catoni.]”
Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan) Quotes
Source: Pharsalia (1, 118)
“You know how to win victory, Hannibal, you do not how to use it [Lat., Vincere scis, Hannibal; victoria uti nescis.]”
Maharbal Quotes
Source: said to Hannibal, from Livy, The History of Rome, vol. III (22.51)
“They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy.”
William L. Marcy Quotes
Source: in a speech in the United States Senate