Victory Quotes - Page 4

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  I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar

  Sports, Latin, Bad Ass

  Quoted in Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars.

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• Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

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• First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

  Horatio Nelson

  Inspirational, War, Gains

  Horatio Nelson's remark before the battle of the Nile, August 1, 1797.

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• Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

  Stephen Covey

  Conservative, Privacy, Harvest

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

  Jack Kemp

  Motivational, Humble, Matter

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• Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Happiness, Adversity, Fighting

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• Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Sports, Victory And Defeat, Victory Defeat

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• In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Triumph, Defeat

  'The Poets' (1876)

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• A masterful retreat is itself a victory.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Retreat

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• A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.

  Eric Berne

  Inspirational, Failure, Winning

  Eric Berne (2010). “What Do You Say After You Say Hello”, p.235, Random House

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• One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  War, Use, May

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• Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Esquire, Nov. 1962

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• Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Inspirational, Victory And Defeat, Be Careful

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• 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

  Life, Motivational, Reading

  Harry S. Truman (1999). “Strictly Personal and Confidential: The Letters Harry Truman Never Mailed”, p.138, University of Missouri Press

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• In war there is no substitute for victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Memorial Day, Inspirational Sports, Motivational Sports

  Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

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• Victory is a thing of the will.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Military

  "The Guns of August". Book by Barbara Tuchman, 1962.

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• Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory

  Jimmy Cliff

  Perseverance, Rome, Battle

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• Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but
  victories.

  Douglas MacArthur

  History, Liberty, Chains

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• Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

  George S. Patton

  Leadership, War, Men

  Cavalry Journal, September 1933.

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• A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Military, Political, Looks

  "Portrait of a Planet" by Friedrich Durrenmatt, 1971.

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• If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

  Epictetus

  Mean, Invincible, Dishonorable

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• Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Thank You, Strong, Children

  Douglas MacArthur, Edward T. Imparato (2001). “General MacArthur: Wisdom and Visions”, p.158, Turner Publishing Company

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• There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1845). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices, &c. &c”, p.92

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• The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Sports, Business

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• There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  "The Little Book of Romanian Wisdom". Book edited by Diana Doroftei and Matthew Cross, 2011.

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