Victory

"Victory belongs to those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success belongs to those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeed' in the end."

"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."

"The most dangerous moment comes with victory."

"It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood."

"There is good, in one view, in feeling that we have crossed the Rubicon and are in for it; then we shall hold stoutly on; otherwise, we may be advancing with only half a heart. And there are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole one makes just the difference between signal defeat and splendid victory."

"Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious."

"As always, victory will have a hundred fathers, but defeat will never be acknowledged by anyone at all."

"You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."

"The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult."

"Success is counted sweetest By those who ne’er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need.Not one of all the purple Host Who took the Flag today Can tell the definition So clear of victoryAs he defeated – dying – On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Burst agonized and clear!"

"The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides."

"Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat."

"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."

"We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win."

"All victories breed hate, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal."

"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory."

"Woe to the Christian Church when it will have been victorious in this world, for then it is not the Church that has been victorious but the world. Then the heterogeneity between Christianity and the world has vanished, the world has won, and Christianity has lost."

"There's feasting spread in gorgeous halls, The lamps flash round the city walls, And many a flood of lustre falls O'er many an honoured name. Turn thou from this, and enter where Some mother weeps o'er her despair, Some desolate bride rends her rich hair, Some orphan joins the cry ! Then back again to the death plain, Where lie those whom they weep in vain, And ask, in gazing on the slain, What art thou, Victory ?"

"Easy victories aren’t worth winning."

"Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories."

"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived."

"Not in the clamour of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."

"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."

"In war there is no substitute for victory."

"Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe."

"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."

"Some of my followers will remain victorious (and on the right path) till the Last Day comes, and they will still be victorious."

"I have been given the keys of eloquent speech and given victory with awe (cast into the hearts of the enemy), and while I was sleeping last night, the keys of the treasures of the earth were brought to me till they were put in my hand."

"I have been sent with the shortest expressions bearing the widest meanings, and I have been made victorious with terror (cast in the hearts of the enemy), and while I was sleeping, the keys of the treasures of the world were brought to me and put in my hand."

"I have been sent with Jawami al-Kalim (i.e., the shortest expression carrying the widest meanings), and I was made victorious with awe (caste into the hearts of the enemy), and while I was sleeping, the keys of the treasures of the earth were brought to me and were put in my hand."

"There is no god but Allah, the One Who conferred upon His armies the honour of victory and helped His servant rout the clans; there is nothing after that."

"None has the right to be worshipped but Allah; He is One and has no partner. All the kingdoms is for Him, and all the praises are for Him, and He is Omnipotent. We are returning with repentance, worshipping, prostrating, and praising our Lord. He has kept up His promise and made His slave victorious, and He Alone defeated all the clans of (nonbelievers)."

"On the day of Khaibar, Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Tomorrow I will give this flag to a man through whose hands Allah will give us victory. He loves Allah and His Apostle, and he is loved by Allah and His Apostle." The people remained that night, wondering as to who would be given it. In the morning the people went to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and everyone of them was hopeful to receive it (i.e. the flag). The Prophet said, "Where is `Ali bin Abi Talib?" It was said, "He is suffering from eye trouble O Allah's Apostle." He said, "Send for him." `Ali was brought and Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) spat in his eye and invoked good upon him. So `Ali was cured as if he never had any trouble. Then the Prophet (ﷺ) gave him the flag. `Ali said "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! I will fight with them till they become like us." Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Proceed and do not hurry. When you enter their territory, call them to embrace Islam and inform them of Allah's Rights which they should observe, for by Allah, even if a single man is led on the right path (of Islam) by Allah through you, then that will be better for you than the nice red camels."

"God willing, when Allah has granted us victory, our halt tomorrow will be at Khaif, where they (the unbelievers of Mecca) had taken an oath on unbelief."

"The problem after a war is the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay."

"O Death where is thy sting, O Grave where is thy victory?"

"There are two kinds of defeat. Whether in chains or in laurels, Liberty knows nothing but victories."

"Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories."

"Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone."

"Et primo ferri motu prosternite mundum; sitque palam, quas tot duxit Pompeius in urbem curribus, unius gentes non esse triumphi."

"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. … Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."

"An attitude of moderation is apt to be misunderstood when passions are greatly excited and when victory is apt to rest with the extremists on one side or the other; yet I think it is in the long run the only wise attitude."

"I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys."

"With each loss, new buds of victory unfold in our hearts."

"If I win, lose or draw? It's a victory for all!"

"You win the victory when you yield to friends."

"Minds are conquered not by arms, but by love and magnanimity."

"The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities... It is best to win without fighting."

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."

"If it had not been for these things, I might have lived out my life talking at street corners to scorning men. I might have died, unmarked, unknown, a failure. Now we are not a failure. This is our career and our triumph. Never in our full life could we hope to do such work for tolerance, for justice, for man's understanding of man as now we do by accident. Our words — our lives — our pains — nothing! The taking of our lives — lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish-peddler — all! That last moment belongs to us — that agony is our triumph."

"Victory belongs to those that believe in it the most and believe in it the longest. We're going to believe."

"The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered."

"I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat".… You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."

"No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat."

"There's an old saying that victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan."

"Upon the fields of friendly strife Are sown the seeds That, upon other fields, on other days Will bear the fruits of victory."