50+ Victory and Win Quotes to Celebrate Triumph and Inspire Success
Victory is more than just winning; it’s the culmination of effort, perseverance, and belief in oneself. It celebrates the journey, the lessons learned, and the strength discovered along the way. True victory is not only about defeating others but also about overcoming personal limits and fears. It inspires confidence, fosters growth, and reminds us of our resilience. Every victory, no matter how small, is a step toward realizing our potential and achieving a greater sense of fulfillment.
- “Victory belongs to the most persevering.”
- “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”
- “The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.”
- “There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.”
- “It is not truth that matters, but victory.”
- “It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.”
- “Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.”
- “Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”
- “One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.”
- “Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”
- “Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.”
- “Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.”
- “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 those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”
- “When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.”
- “Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
- “The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.”
- “There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.”
- “Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.”
- “The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.”
- “How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?”
- “By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.”
- “Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.”
- “If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.”
- “Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!”
- “The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.”
- “How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.”
- “Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?”
- “I do not pilfer victory.”
- “The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.”
- “One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.”
- “Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.”
- “Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.”
- “It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.”
- “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”
- “To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.”
- “Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.”
- “The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.”
- “He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.”
- “Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.”
- “If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.”
- “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”
- “He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.”
- “Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.”
- “All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.”
- “Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.”
- “For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.”
- “To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.”
- “If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler’s bidding.”
- “Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.”
- “He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.”
- “We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.”
- “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.”
- “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”