Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.

Jon M. Chu

When I'm doing more than one movie because it makes one not the end of the world. It makes me feel like, "Okay, I won. I had a victory on this one, today. And I lost on this one, today." I can keep going back-and-forth.

John Bolton

People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.

Victory makes you want to keep going. When you see that you can do something in little steps, it's very motivating.

Thomas Jefferson

In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.

Ron Fournier

A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington.

Ron Fournier

Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public.

Sophie Swetchine

I love victory, but I love not triumph.

Soren Kierkegaard

It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.

William Wordsworth

For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.

Samuel Smiles

The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.

William Faulkner

No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Richard P. Feynman

Victory usually goes to those green enough to underestimate the monumental hurdles they are facing.

Robert Harris

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

Robert Greene

There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.

Robert Asprin

Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer

Tullian Tchividjian

We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.

William C. Bryant

The victory of endurance born.

Walter Scott

It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.

Walter F. Mondale

Do not despair. In every defeat are found the seeds of victory.

Vladimir Putin

NATO and the USA wanted a complete victory over the Soviet Union. They wanted to sit on the throne in Europe alone.

Vladimir Putin

Indeed, that is exactly what they [the Arctic convoys] were. We know that the conditions in which they fought were appalling. Time and again they faced death in the name of a common victory and we remember that.

Winston Churchill

Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage.

Winston Churchill

No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.

Winston Churchill

Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.

Winston Churchill

You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.

Winston Churchill

Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.

Winston Churchill

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

Woody Hayes

Indomitable in victory, insufferable in defeat.

Saint Augustine

Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.

Yasser Arafat

The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

Winston Churchill

There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory.

William Hazlitt

Faith is necessary to victory.