Victory Quotes
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A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille
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The negative principle negates. The positive principle creates. The negative principle doubts. The positive principle believes. The negative principle accepts defeat. The positive principle goes for victory.
Norman Vincent Peale
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I think it’s -you know, it’s victory of the value of human rights, of the value of anti-corruption, of the value of anti-dictatorship. So I don’t think that I am the only one who win this Nobel Peace Prize.
Tawakkol Karman
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You may disagree with some changes in this bill, just as some of our members disagree with other details, ... But all Americans will see this bill as a victory for common sense, and I urge you to support it.
Dennis Hastert
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My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.
James Longstreet
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You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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We can bring brilliant flowers of victory to bloom in our lives when we weather the hardships of winter and emerge triumphant based on our practice of the Mystic Law. The key to victories lies in how hard we struggle when we are in winter, how wisely we use this time and how meaningful we live each day confident that spring will definitely come.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Liberalism developed flawless weapons aimed at achieving its straightforward alternatives, which was the basis for its victory. But it is this very victory that holds the greatest risk to liberalism. We need only to ascertain the location of these new, vulnerable spots in the global system and decipher its login passwords in order to hack into its system. At the very least, we must try to do so. The events of 11 September 2001 in New York demonstrated that this is technologically possible. The Internet society can be useful, even for those who staunchly oppose it.
Aleksandr Dugin
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Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.
William Harvey
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The resurrection of Christ is one of the foundation stones of Christianity. It was the seal of the great work that He came on earth to do. It was the crowning proof that the ransom He paid for sinners was accepted, the atonement for sin accomplished, the head of him who had the power of death bruised, and the victory won.
J. C. Ryle
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I learnt my lessons very early on that it's probably a good thing to be humble in victory as well as defeat.
Bronte Campbell
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Victory and disaster establish indestructible bonds between armies and their commanders.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil. 1957, reacting on a remark of Picasso
Ad Reinhardt
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Most of my issues that mankind sets out to settle, it never does settle… The dispute fades into the past unsolved, though perhaps it may be renewed as history and fought over again. It disappears because it is replaced by some compromise that, although not wholly acceptable to either side, offers a tolerable substitute for victory…
Learned Hand
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Victory is the only option. And we will be victorious in Iraq.
Andrew Card
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The darker the night, the nearer the dawn. Victory in life is decided by that last concentrated burst of energy filled with the resolve to win.
Daisaku Ikeda
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The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.
Hermann Hesse
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Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory.
Yamaoka Tesshu
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Brethren, are you in earnest? If so, though your faith be weak, and your struggles unsatisfactory, you may begin the hymn of triumph now, for victory is pledged. Thanks be to God, which ' - not shall give, but 'giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.'
Frederick William Robertson
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Being the one woman in the room should not be seen as a victory. If there's only one of us in the room, we're still a token; we don't actually have an empowered voice. If there's two of us, we're still a minority. If there's three, then we're allowed to have a multiplicity of opinions.
Kerry Washington
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Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
John F. Kennedy
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Satan can wreak havoc but he cannot claim the victory.
David Jeremiah
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Events in America show the extent to which democracy there is fuelled by populism - Barack Obama's victory is a manifestation not of Washington's need for change, but of America's. That is not how democracy works in England.
Andrew O'Hagan