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Quotes About Victory

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Success is a great healer.
~ Gertrude Atherton
Success is like a liberation, or the first phase of a love affair.
~ Jeanne Moreau
I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
~ Romans
Harricum! Harricum! Give 'em hell, Harricum!
~ Harry S. Truman
Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York.
~ William Shakespeare
A cup to the dead already, - Hurrah for the next that dies.
~ Dowling Bartholomew
There are no crown-bearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
How beautiful is victory, but how dear!
~ Anonymous
To the victors belong the spoils.
~ Andrew Jackson
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
~ Michel Montaigne
We have met the enemy and they are ours.
~ Oliver Hazard Perry
We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
~ Winston Churchill
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
~ Georges Clemenceau
The object of war is to survive it.
~ John Irving
Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others.
~ Horatio Nelson
Those who live are those who fight.
~ Victor Hugo
You have to pay the price - but if you do you can only win.
~ Frank Leahy
Victory - a matter of staying power.
~ Elbert Hubbard
If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Why, then, the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.
~ William Shakespeare
Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.
~ Epicurus
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
~ Moliere