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Quotes About Victory

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.
~ Ruth Gordon
It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.
~ Kossuth
You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
~ Christy Mathewson
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
~ Sallust
The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill.
~ Anonymous
Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes.
~ Nancy Kerrigan
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
~ Paul Sweeney
I was nervous and confident at the same time, nervous about going out there in front of all of those people, with so much at stake, and confident that I was going to go out there and win.
~ Althea Gibson
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be all right.
~ Alice Thomas Ellis
A good title is the title of a successful book.
~ Raymond Chandler
Business is a combination of war and sport.
~ Andri Maurois
God befriend us, as our cause is just!
~ William Shakespeare
Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.
~ Knute Rockne
Onward, Christian soldiers, Marching as to war, With the cross of Jesus Going on before.
~ Sabine BaringGould
Servant of God, well done! Well hast thou fought The better fight.
~ John Milton
In war there is no substitute for victory.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning.
~ Woody Hayes
The only place you can win a football game is on the field. The only place you can lose it is in your heart.
~ Darrell Royal
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow, and of the man who leads, that gains the victory.
~ General George S. Patton
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
~ Winston Churchill
How grand is victory, but how dear!
~ Anonymous