Greatest Victory quotes
31 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all."
"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."
"If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat."
"The most dangerous moment comes with victory."
"The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most"
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"The greatest victory is that which requires no battle."
"The greatest victory is the one over oneself."
"To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
"What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime."
"Man's greatest victory is over oneself."
"The greatest victory is over self."
"Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods."
"On the whole, we think that the greatest victories are yet to be won, the greatest deeds yet to be done, and that there are yet in store for our peoples, and for the causes that we uphold, grander triumphs than have ever yet been scored. But be this as it may, we gladly agree that the one plain duty of every man is to face the future as he faces the present, regardless of what it may have in store for him, turning toward the light as he sees the light, to play his part manfully, as a man among men."
