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Quotes About Victory

evil will never permanently triumph.
~ Gerald N. Lund
Our long national nightmare is over.
~ Gerald R. Ford
A coalition of groups ... is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. ... an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him. (On Watergate crisis)
~ Gerald R. Ford
Labor conquers all things.
~ Homer
He laughs best who laughs last.
~ Old English Proverb
In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.
~ F. Lee Bailey
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
~ Robert Frost
Joy is the will which labors, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
~ William Butler Yeats
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joy.
~ Antoine de SaintExupery
'Tis man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success.
~ Homer
I came, I saw, I concurred.
~ Irvine H. Page
The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition.
~ Nick Seitz
Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.
~ B. C. Forbes
All is well that ends well.
~ John Heywood
One can go a long way after one is tired.
~ French proverb
I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.
~ John Dryden
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
~ B. C. Forbes
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before.
~ Polybius
Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring, fight one more round.
~ James J. Corbett
This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten, and goes on fighting.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was.
~ Louis L'Amour
As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated-he's just a little behind, and isn't through fighting.
~ Darrell Royal
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
~ Josephus Daniels
There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.
~ Fay Weldon