Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Bonaparte

The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory

Oliver Stone

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

Norman Vincent Peale

A masterful retreat is itself a victory.

Emily Dickinson

Victory comes late-- And is held low to freezing lips-- Too rapt with frost To take it

Emil Zatopek

Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.

Tony Benn

There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.

Tony Abbott

Victory is within our ready grasp...We are in reach of a famous victory

Les Brown

Failure is not a destination; it’s an invitation to unforeseen VICTORIES.

LaToya Jackson

This is a very big victory for Michael and we are all very proud that he has been completely and totally vindicated in court, as we were certain he would be.

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!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

Jacques Ellul

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

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.

John Bolton

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

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.

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.

Paulo Coelho

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

Neal Shusterman

Small victories are bet­ter than none.

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.

Paulo Coelho

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

Joyce Meyer

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

Ovid

This victory will be your I ruin.

Erich Segal

Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory

John Monash

Feed the troops on victory.

Joseph Prince

You are destined to reign in life. You are called by the Lord to be a success, to enjoy wealth, to enjoy health, and to enjoy a life of victory. It is not the Lord's desire that you live a life of defeat, poverty, and failure.

Julian Simon

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

Joseph Conrad

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmostphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary.