Victory Quotes

“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
- Horace Mann


“Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.”
- Edwin Markham


“Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.”
- Abraham Lincoln


“In war there is no substitute for victory.”
- Douglas MacArthur


“The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.”
- Sun Tzu


“The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.”
- Lao Tzu


“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.”
- Adolph Hitler


“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”
- Sun Tzu


“Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.”
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower


“Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.”
- Malcolm S. Forbes


“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.”
- Winston Churchill


“If you can accept losing, you can't win.”
-Vince Lombardi


“Expect victory and you make victory.”
- Preston Bradley


“Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.”
- Louis L'Amour


“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


“Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the Attack.”
- Sun Tzu


“Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.”
- Arthur Ashe


“If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.”
- William Hazlitt


“The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is of all things most shameful and vile.”
- Plato


“It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.”
- Nelson Mandela


“Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat”
- Jean-Paul Sartre


“It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery


“There is no substitute for victory.”
- Douglas MacArthur


“Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.”
- Daisaku Ikeda


“One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.”
- Josh Billings


“Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.”
- Sun Tzu


“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

Success Quotes

Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket.


Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.


Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.


The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.


A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.


Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.


Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.


If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.


To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.


Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.


Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.


Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
~Albert Einstein


Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. ~Joe Paterno


If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you.
~Author Unknown


Eighty percent of success is showing up.
~Woody Allen


As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building.
~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average.
~M.H. Alderson


Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
~Winston Churchill


What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
~Gene Fowler


We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.
~Miguel de Unamuno, Essays and Soliloquies, 1925 Sometimes


I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
~Lily Tomlin


I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it.
~Jonathan Winters


There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." ~Carrie Fisher


Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
~David Frost

Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it.
~Author Unknown


Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book I dread success.


To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
~George Bernard Shaw, 28 August 1896


Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
~Larry King


Success has made failures of many men.
~Cindy Adams


Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.
~Donald A. Miller


Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
~Author Unknown