Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Happiness is not mostly pleasure, it is mostly victory.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

Jacqueline Carey

For every victory there is a price.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.

J. R. R. Tolkien

For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it.

Ieyasu Tokugawa

After victory, tighten the cords of your helmet.

Ignatius of Loyola

Truth always ends by victory; it is not unassailable, but invincible.

Hugh Prather

Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.

Horace

In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

Frederick Douglass

I glory in conflict that I may hereafter exult in victory.

Fernando Pessoa

I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.

Fernando Pessoa

I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.

Ferdinand Foch

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

It's a victory marred by some unsavoury performances,

It's a big victory. One of the biggest.

Hunter S. Thompson

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

Ethan Zuckerman

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

Terry Goodkind

Wizard's Eighth Rule Talga Vassternich. (Deserve Victory)

Terry Goodkind

I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!

Neal Shusterman

Small victories are bet­ter than none.

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.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Paulo Coelho

In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.

Philip Sidney

Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.

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.

Jose Mourinho

I must try to hide my emotions. I have to live with both the victory and the defeat.

Jorge Luis Borges

That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.

Jody Williams

This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security of the entire world without being a superpower.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

Louis XIV

Impatience for victory guarantees defeat

John Gay

No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Defeat may be victory in disguise.