Victory comes in the end, and but it is the sight of victory in your dreams and thoughts that will inspire you to fight, and to walk that extra mile when everyone else are exhausted. Here are some famous victory quotes.
And when you are defeated, do understand that it is not the end of the world, and success comes to those who refuses to yield. And pasts defeats will only add to the sweetness of your victories later:
“Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.”
~Malcolm S. Forbes
“If you can accept losing, you can’t win.”
~ Vince Lombardi
“Victory is a thing of the will.”
~General Ferdinand Foch
“Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.”
~ Louis L’Amour
“Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe.”
~John Milton
“The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.”
~ St. Augustine
“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves…self-discipline with all of them came first.”
~ Harry S Truman
“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.”
~Winston Churchill
“You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.”
~Harriet Woods
“If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.”
~William Hazlitt
“Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.”
~Zig Ziglar
“I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.”
~Joan Benoit Samuelson
“It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.”
~Blaise Pascal
“The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is of all things most shameful and vile.”
~ Plato
“Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory.”
~Mahatma Gandhi
“Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.”
~Daisaku Ikeda
“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.”
~ F. A. Wickett
“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”
~Sun Tzu
“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.
~Sun Tzu
“The triumph cannot be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.”
~Wilma Rudolph
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”
~Aristotle