Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

William Hazlitt

Faith is necessary to victory.

W. Somerset Maugham

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

William Penn

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

Zig Ziglar

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Neal Shusterman

Small victories are bet­ter than none.

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.

Jacques Ellul

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Friedrich August von Hayek

If we were to make no better use of victory than to countenance existing trends in this direction, only too visible before 1939, we might indeed find that we have defeated National Socialism merely to create a world of many national socialisms, differing in detail, but all equally totalitarian, nationalistic, and in recurrent conflict with each other.