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“It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.”
— Antoine de Saint Exupery
“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.”
— Buddha
“You win the victory when you yield to friends.”
— Sophocles
“One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.”
— Franz Kafka
“Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.”
— Ovid
“As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory. ”
— Bob Marley
“Victory belongs to the most persevering. ”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.”
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.”
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.”
— Douglas MacArthur
“In war there is no substitute for victory.”
— Douglas MacArthur
“There is no substitute for victory.”
— Douglas MacArthur
“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
— Horace Mann
“The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.”
— Blaise Pascal
“It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.”
— Ingrid Bergman
“If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.”
— William Seward Burroughs
“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. ”
— Abraham Lincoln
“The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”
— Winston Churchill
“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“There are many victories worse than a defeat.”
— George Eliot
“Nobody likes tainted victories.”
— Steve Prefontaine
“Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.”
— Ken Venturi
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