"Man's greatest victory is over oneself."
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"We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come."
"The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth."
"Victory comes late-- And is held low to freezing lips-- Too rapt with frost To take it"
"Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear."
"This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!"
"The greatest victory is over self."
"The victory of endurance born."
"And either victory, or else a grave."
"The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height."
"Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat."
"The victories of character are instant, and victories for all."
"The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner."
"Winners never talk about glorious victories. Thats because they're the ones who see what the battle field looks like afterwards. Its only the losers who have glorious victories."
"To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph."
"No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors."
"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."
"In the Vedic Calender, the year 2013 is said to be the year of Victory. Victory of the Good over Bad.It is said to begin in the end of march."
"And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades."
"Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus."