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The best policy is to declare victory and leave.
Author: George D. Aiken
Source: said during the Vietnam ear
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious,
O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: Tam o' Shanter
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Who thought he'd won
The field as certain as a gun.
Author: James Butler, first Duke of Ormonde
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 11)
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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.
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: The Battle of the Baltic
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Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: The Battle of the Baltic
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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.
Author: Emily Dickinson
Source: Poems--Success
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Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished.
Author: General Ferdinand Foch
Source: as reported by G. Ward Price in the London "Daily Mail"
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Victory is a thing of the will.
Author: General Ferdinand Foch
Source: one of his favorite maxims
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A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the
conquered.)
Author: General Ferdinand Foch
Source: one of his favorite maxims
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To the victors belong the spoils. (The spoils to the victors.)
Author: General Ferdinand Foch
Source: one of his favorite maxims
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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?
Author: Julia Larned
Source: The Winged Victory
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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.
Author: David Lloyd George
Source: in a speech at Glasgow
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The victorious cause pleased the gods, but the victory pleased
Cato.
[Lat., Victrix cause Diis placuit, sed victa Catoni.]
Author: Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)
Source: Pharsalia (1, 118)
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You know how to win victory, Hannibal, you do not how to use it
[Lat., Vincere scis, Hannibal; victoria uti nescis.]
Author: Maharbal
Source: said to Hannibal, from Livy, The History of Rome, vol. III (22.51)
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They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victors belong
the spoils of the enemy.
Author: William L. Marcy
Source: in a speech in the United States Senate
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Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 648)
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Author: Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
Source: Of Cannibals (ch. XXX)
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Then should some cloud pass over
The brow of sire or lover,
Think 'tis the shade
By Victory made
Whose wings right o'er us hover!
Author: Thomas Moore
Source: Battle Song
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Westminster Abbey, or Victory.
Author: Lord Horatio Nelson
Source: in the battle off Cape Vincent, giving order for boarding the San Josef, see Southey "Life of Nelson
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Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or
Westminister Abbey.
Author: Lord Horatio Nelson
Source: Life of Nelson (ch. 5), before the Battle of the Nile
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We have met the enemy and they are ours.
Author: Oliver Hazard Perry
Source: Letter to Gen. Harrison after the Victory on Lake Erie
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Woe to the vanquished!
[Lat., Vae victis.]
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Source: Pseudolus (act V)
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We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms,
Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Horace
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But if
We have such another victory, we are undone.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Horace
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Hail! Thou as victor crowned.
[Ger., Heil dir im Siegerkranz.]
Author: B.G. Schumacher
Source: title and refrain of Prussian National Hymn, from the original song by Heinrich Harries
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The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
Author: St. Augustine
Source: None
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The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Author: Muhammad Ali
Source: None
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The most dangerous moment comes with victory.
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
Source: None
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Author: Malcolm Forbes
Source: None
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One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
Author: Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Source: None
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There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
Author: Elie Wiesel
Source: None
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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.
Author: Winston Churchill
Source: None
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
Author: George Eliot
Source: None
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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.
Author: Howard Cosell
Source: None
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Author: Thomas Paine
Source: None
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Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
Author: Blaise Pascal
Source: None
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The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
Author: Ferdinand Foch
Source: None
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
Author: General Douglas MacArthur
Source: None
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Victory; a matter of staying power.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
Source: None
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Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Author: Vince Lombardi
Source: None
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I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.
Author: Joan Benoit Samuelson
Source: None
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As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
Author: Count Galeazzo Ciano
Source: None
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
Author: Oswald Spengler
Source: None
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In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable.
Author: Sir Winston Churchill
Source: None
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The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, physically, morally and spiritually defeated.
Author: F. A. Wickett
Source: None
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The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: None
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Author: Aristotle
Source: None
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Not might
but light
lit Maccabees'
lamp
through the night.
Author: O Anna Niemus
Source: None
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Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
Author: Red Sanders
Source: None
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