Victory Quotes

I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.

Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty.

The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

Newt Gingrich had to work hard - getting Republican candidates to sign the Contract with America - to nationalize the election that swept Republicans to victory in 1994. A Democratic anti-Tea Party campaign would do that for the Republicans - nationalize the election, gratis - in 2010.

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.

Victory puts us on a level with heaven.

The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.

Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.

There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American people, which should be our first priority.

My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it.

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

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.

We chose this road, and will end with martyrdom or victory.

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.

Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.

One victory more or less doesn't make the difference for me now.

If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.

Victory must be assured in advance. And the American public must be all for it from the outset.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.