Victory Quotes One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.     Josh Billings Victory belongs to the most persevering.     Napoleon Bonaparte Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.     Lois McMaster Bujold There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.     Lois McMaster Bujold Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.     Mahatma Gandhi We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.     Edward Gibbon A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.     Arthur Golden Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.     Abraham Lincoln Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.     Horace Mann The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.     Martina Navratilova Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.     Polybius Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.     Pyrrhus 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 nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.     Theodore Roosevelt Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.     Ralph W. Sockman 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.     Sun Tzu Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.     Sun Tzu Previous Subject - Vices | Next Subject - Violence