Quotes with victory

Quotes 101 till 120 of 132.

• This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
  Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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• To be prepared is half the victory.

  Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  American historian (1912 - 1989)
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• To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

  Brendan Behan
  Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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• To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

  Abraham Lincoln
  American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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• Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

  Aeschylus
  Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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• Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

  We are all part of one another

  Barbara Deming
  American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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• Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

  Thomas Jefferson
  American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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• Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.

  Basil King
  Canadian preacher and novelist (1859 - 1928)
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• Victory belong to the most persevering.

  Andre Norton
  American writer of science fiction (1912 - 2005)
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• Victory belongs to the most persevering.

  Napoleon
  French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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• Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

  Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower
   
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• Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

  Press conferentie, 21-04-1961 (na de Bay of Pigs)

  John F. Kennedy
  American politician (1917 - 1963)
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• Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
  

  Napoleon Hill
  American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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• Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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• Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

  Malcolm Forbes
  American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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• Victory; a matter of staying power.

  Elbert Hubbard
  American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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• War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

  Albert Pike
  American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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• We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.

  T. S. Eliot
  British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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• We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

  Bern Williams
  English philosopher
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Subjects in these quotes:

• understanding
• next-to-last
• catastrophes
• contentment
• pleasures
• necessary

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