“One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.”
“Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.”
“The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow.”
“Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.”
“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.”
“Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.”
“The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.”
“You know how to conquer, Hannibal, but not how to profit by your victory.”
“The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.”
“The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.”
“Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.”
“The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.”
“I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.”
“Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.”
“Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded...”
“I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!”
“Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.”
“What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.”
“We have all eternity to celebrate our victories, but only one short hour before sunset in which to win them.”
“There is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.”
“We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.”
“No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.”
“Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.”
“The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, physically, morally and spiritually defeated.”
“Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.”
“The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.”
“The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.”