Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Prefontaine

Nobody likes tainted victories.

Stephen Dunn

All good poems are victories over something.

Stephen Covey

Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.

Stephen Covey

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Stephen Covey

Internal victories precede external victories.

Steven Moffat

I'd forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe.

Sun Tzu

Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy; forceful execution of even a poor plan can often bring victory.

Sun Tzu

It is according to the shapes that I lay the plans for victory, but the multitude does not comprehend this. Although everyone can see the outward aspects, none understands the way in which I have created victory.

Robert Burns

Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory! Now 's the day and now 's the hour; See the front o' battle lour.

Rhodri Morgan

Tony Blair will be remembered as a great friend to Wales because it was his landslide election victory in 1997 that led to devolution.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many a defeat before we'll have an ultimate victory in this contest with Communism.

T. D. Jakes

You cannot have victory without conflict.

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.

Vladimir Lenin

In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.

Ryan Seacrest

We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.

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.

Woodrow Wilson

It must be a peace without victory

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.

Saint Augustine

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