Famous Victory Quotes

A Cadmean victory.
-- General Ferdinand Foch

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano

Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey.
-- Lord Horatio Nelson

Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.
-- Abraham Lincoln

But if We have such another victory, we are undone.
-- Alexander Pope

For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes--not that you won or lost--but how you played the Game.
-- Grantland Rice

From what far, heavenly height of hope Didst thou descend to light our way, Cleaving with flash of snowy robe Time's dusky veil of twilight gray?
-- Julia Larned

Hail! Thou as victor crowned.
-- B G Schumacher

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
-- Aristotle

I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
-- Bill Veeck

I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.
-- Joan Benoit Samuelson

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!
-- Woodrow Wilson

In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable.
-- Sir Winston Churchill

In war there is no substitute for victory.
-- General Douglas MacArthur

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
-- Douglas Macarthur

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
-- Blaise Pascal

Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.
-- Robert Burns

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
-- John Gay

Not might but light lit Maccabees' lamp through the night.
-- O Anna Niemus