| 75 Victory Quotes
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“Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 648)
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“There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.”
Michael Eyquen de Montaigne Quotes 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!”
Thomas Moore Quotes Source: Battle Song
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“Westminster Abbey, or Victory.”
Lord Horatio Nelson Quotes 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.”
Lord Horatio Nelson Quotes 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.”
Oliver Hazard Perry Quotes Source: Letter to Gen. Harrison after the Victory on Lake Erie
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“Woe to the vanquished!
[Lat., Vae victis.]”
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) Quotes 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.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Horace
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“But if
We have such another victory, we are undone.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Horace
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“Hail! Thou as victor crowned.
[Ger., Heil dir im Siegerkranz.]”
B.G. Schumacher Quotes 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.”
St. Augustine Quotes |
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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.”
Muhammad Ali Quotes |
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“The most dangerous moment comes with victory.”
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
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“Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.”
Malcolm Forbes Quotes |
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“One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.”
Pedro Calderón de la Barca Quotes |
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“There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.”
Elie Wiesel Quotes |
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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.”
Winston Churchill Quotes |
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“There are many victories worse than a defeat.”
George Eliot Quotes |
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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.”
Howard Cosell Quotes |
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“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
Thomas Paine Quotes |
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“Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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“It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.”
Blaise Pascal Quotes |
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“The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.”
Ferdinand Foch Quotes |
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“In war there is no substitute for victory.”
General Douglas MacArthur Quotes |
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“Victory; a matter of staying power.”
Elbert Hubbard Quotes |
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