Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

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.

Rand Paul

Our legislative victory - an end to earmarks.

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.

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 ...

Norman Finkelstein

Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.

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.

Michael Howard

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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.

It's a victory marred by some unsavoury performances,

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

David Jeremiah

Satan can wreak havoc but he cannot claim the victory.

Darrell Royal

I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.

Daisaku Ikeda

Strength is itself victory.

Daisaku Ikeda

The place where you are now is vital. The path toward victory opens from where you stand.

Jack Nicklaus

Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.

J. C. Ryle

The resurrection of Christ is one of the foundation stones of Christianity. It was the seal of the great work that He came on earth to do. It was the crowning proof that the ransom He paid for sinners was accepted, the atonement for sin accomplished, the head of him who had the power of death bruised, and the victory won.

George Bernard Shaw

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.

Gelett Burgess

Propose not to a woman when she hath gotten a new frock, nor when she is puffed up with victories; when she reigneth and rejoiceth in her hour of triumph, come not nigh unto her; but when she be ill or weary, when she is cast down in spirit and needeth a comforter, then be thou ready, and make thy suit.

Gena Showalter

The best way to spell victory? K-I-L-L.

Enzo Ferrari

The mostimportant victory is the one which has to arrive.

Indira Gandhi

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

Ira Glasser

Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again.

David Foster Wallace

every failure is also a victory.

James Fisher

There is an aura of victory that surrounds a person of goodwill.