Greatest Victory Quotes - Page 2

• Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

  Edwin Markham

  Encouraging, Kindness, Adversity

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• 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

  Leadership, Business, War

  "The Art of War". Chapter I: Detail Assessment and Planning. Translated by Chow-Hou Wee, 2003.

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• Think back to the most important experiences of your life, the highest highs, the greatest victories, the most daunting obstacles overcome. How many happened to you alone? I bet there are very few. When you understand that being connected to others is one of life's greatest joys, you realize that life's best comes when you initiate and invest in solid relationships.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Thinking, Joy

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• For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

  Plato

  Success, Men, Firsts

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• The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Battle

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• The greatest victory anyone can taste is the daily challenge to outrun those fears that you vanquished... days, weeks, months past.

  Francisco Leon

  Motivational, Past, Challenges

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• We draw our strength from the battle. From our greatest conflicts come our greatest victories.

  Rod Parsley

  Battle, Conflict, Draws

  Twitter post from Oct 08, 2015

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• The greatest victory is defeat.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Victory, Defeat

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• If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Fire, Tactics, Accepting

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• I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That's what I'm most proud of. I can't go win Wimbledon anymore, so if what I've done in the past is not good enough, let it go. Because I'm certainly not sitting around thinking about it.

  Jimmy Connors

  Winning, Past, Thinking

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• United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God's help, go forward to our greatest victory.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Determination, War, Fighting

  Dwight D. Eisenhower (1948). “Crusade in Europe”

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• To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Men, Gains, Conquer

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• The greatest victory is the one over oneself.

  Gautama Buddha

  Victory, Oneself

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• Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.

  Andre Gide

  Men, Victory, Firsts

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• The greatest victory for man is not that his dreams were fulfilled but it is that to stand upright even when none of his dreams were fulfilled!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dream, Men, Fulfilled

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• Greatest victory which we desire, is to defeat truth and Lo! Truth is undefeated

  Aftab Alam

  Truth, Desire, Defeat

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• Most of the heroes of Scripture rose to their greatest victories after their worst mistakes. God is in the redemption business, and He testifies of this through the lives of everyone He calls.

  Rick Joyner

  Mistake, Hero, Rose

  FaceBook post by Rick Joyner from Jun 18, 2015

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• Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

  Plato

  Men, Victory, Oneself

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• I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order.

  Will Arnett

  Mean, Order, Nine

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• But even now, after the greatest victory known to history we cannot for one minute forget the basic fact that our country remains the one socialist state in the world. You will speak frankly about this to the collective farmers...Only the most concrete, most immediate danger, which threatened us from Hitlerite Germany, has disappeared.

  Mikhail Kalinin

  Country, Germany, World

  "The Soviet Union Since World War II" by American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philip Edward Mosely, (p. 4), 1949.

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• In the end, the greatest victory we can know is the result of all of our hard work, discipline, and dedication: the realization of our dreams.

  Cheryl Burke

  Dream, Hard Work, Dedication

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• The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most

  Muhammad Ali

  Life Is, Rise Above, Materials

  Twitter post from Sep 25, 2015

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• Sometimes the greatest victories we can make for mankind are the victories we make over ourselves.

  Wes Fesler

  Victory, Sometimes, Mankind

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• The greatest victory a man can win is victory over himself.

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Inspirational, Winning, Men

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1951). “The education of man, aphorisms”

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• My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Long, Able, Way

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