Victory Quotes

The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.
Jonathan Kozol

Struggle, Moral, Taste

Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail.
John Podhoretz

War, Care, Against

We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists, and we should not stand for that.
Michael Bloomberg

Play, Else, Betray

Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.
Emil Zatopek

Friendship, Great, Greater

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
Ted W. Engstrom

Pain, Far, Persevere

Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public.
Ron Fournier

Nothing, Public, President

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.
Ron Fournier

Two, While, Since

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
Hesiod

Suffering, Against, Himself

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Power, Political, Military

Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.
Jack Nicklaus

Proud, Once, Defeat

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.
Russell Baker

American, House, Took

Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.
Knute Rockne

Positive, Play, Big

Your victory is right around the corner. Never give up.
Nicki Minaj

Give, Around, Corner

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
Jack Kemp

Work, Good, Humble

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.
Ninon de L'Enclos

Struggle, Become, Action

We march and fight, to death or on to victory. Our might is right, no traitors shall prevail. Our hearts are steeled against the fiery gates of hell. No shot or shell, can still our mighty song.
George Lincoln Rockwell

Death, Fight, Hell

Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
Billie Jean King

Losing, Forever, Fleeting

I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.
Haile Gebrselassie

Time, Remember, Perfect

People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.
John Bolton

Talk, Defeat, Anymore

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
Giacomo Casanova

Fool, Hard, Find

There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.
Jeffrey Kluger

Health, Best, History

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
Horatio Nelson

Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.
Bill Toomey

Sad, Moment, Wonderful

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
Bernard Williams

May, Looking, Roses

I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing.
Joan Didion

Mean, Start, Makes

In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.
Hassan Nasrallah

History, End, Fight

In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable.
Edward Marsh

Defeat, Unbeatable, Unbearable

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
Alexander Smith

Rather, Song, Remembered

Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.
Neil Sheehan

This has been a great victory for the Venezuelan people.
Hugo Chavez

Great, Venezuelan

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