Home / Topics / Victory Quotes

Victory Quotes

Browse 3855 quotes about Victory.

Victory Quotes

“War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon.”

Years Long Has Beens War Happens Culture Realizing Community Results Imagine Generations One Thing Economic Policy Victory Eternal Victim Including Defeat Disaster Ruins Regions Alas Serbia

Author:Susan Sontag

“This victory will be your I ruin.”

Book:Fasti

Source: Fasti

“Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.”

Ifs Turns Victory Healthy Aspect Competition Ruins Cocky

Author:Eddie Vedder

“Pursue not a victory too far. He hath conquered well that hath made his enemy fly; thou mayest beat him to a desperate resistance, which may ruin thee.”

Wells May Made Enemy Victory Beats Resistance Pursue Ruins Thee Desperate

Author:George Herbert

“You know that the nucleus of a time is not The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind Of the world, the heroic effort to live expressed As victory. The poet does not speak in ruins Nor stand there making orotund consolations. He shares the confusions of intelligence.”

Knows World Mind Doe Poetry Speak Growth Effort Share Poet Victory Confusion Ruins Heroic Consolation Nucleus

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.”

Should Ends Bigs Rich Progress Victory Blessing Argument Aim Storm Ruins Discussion Contentment Comparison Get Rich Stretching Count Your Blessings Get Rich Quick

Author:Joseph Joubert

“It was [Totila's] constant theme, that national vice and ruin are inseparably connected; that victory is the fruit of moral as well as military virtue; and that the prince, and even the people, are responsible for the crimes which they neglect to punish.”

People Wells Moral Virtue Military Crime Victory Responsible Constant Fruit Vices Connected Ruins Theme Neglect

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.”

Ifs Knows World Should Looks May Art Play Hands Suffering Given Wealth Brain Stupid This World Victory Defeat Ugly Ruins Aliens Ease Gray Indifferent Looking Good Stupid People

Book:Oscar Wilde Collection

Source: Oscar Wilde Collection

“This is a sad day for all of us, and to none is it sadder than to me. Everything that I have worked for, everything that I have hoped for, everything that I have believed in during my public life, has crashed into ruins. There is only one thing left for me to do; that is, to devote what strength and powers I have to forwarding the victory of the cause for which we have to sacrifice so much... I trust I may live to see the day when Hitlerism has been destroyed and a liberated Europe has been re-established.”

May Has Beens Left Causes One Thing Sacrifice Victory Europe Destroyed Ruins Liberated Public Life World War 2 Sad Day

Author:Neville Chamberlain