Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julian Simon

The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death.

Joyce Meyer

Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.

Pat Boone

Every battle, every victory has been won!

Joseph Stalin

Ours is a just cause; victory will be ours!

Neal A. Maxwell

Consecration thus constitutes the only unconditional surrender which is also a total victory!

Louis L'Amour

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.

Michel de Montaigne

I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.

Michael Mullen

We cannot kill our way to victory.

R. C. Sproul

We are not doomed to an ultimate conflict with no hope of resolution. The message of the Scripture is one of victory - full, final and ultimate victory. It is not our doom that is certain, but Satan's. His head has been crushed by the heel of Christ, who is the Alpha and Omega.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

Oscar Wilde

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

Ken Salazar

I'm proud that Colorado delivered a victory to Barack Obama in 2008 and we will do so again in 2012.

Michael Howard

Tony Blair is already secretly grinning at the prospect of his third victory. You don't have to settle for that.

Rand Paul

Our legislative victory - an end to earmarks.

Norman Finkelstein

Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.

Nicolas Chamfort

Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.

Nick Vujicic

The victory is when I realize that I can't do it on my own.

Miranda Hart

Very important to celebrate victories, however tiny, I always say.

Matthew Engel

Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.

Maria Montessori

All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.

Plato

The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.

Plato

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

Lech Walesa

I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs.

Philip Sidney

Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.

Paulo Coelho

The great conquest is the result of small, unnoticed victories.

Mason Cooley

Victory brings obliviousness; defeat, attentiveness.

Marie Corelli

love, if it be love indeed, asks no permission as to where it shall seek vantage ground or gain its victory - it is of all powers the most unfettered and the one which takes the widest course of largest liberty ...

Theodore Zeldin

No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller... whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness were arguably victories more important than those of Alexander the Great, because they have implications still for every living person.

I'm pretty flexible. It's all up to Victor and how he feels. I'm still on my schedule, so it doesn't matter.

Neal Shusterman

Small victories are bet­ter than none.

John T. Flynn

The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls.

Friedrich August von Hayek

If we were to make no better use of victory than to countenance existing trends in this direction, only too visible before 1939, we might indeed find that we have defeated National Socialism merely to create a world of many national socialisms, differing in detail, but all equally totalitarian, nationalistic, and in recurrent conflict with each other.

Jacques Ellul

Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.