Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun-tzu
Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
Polybius
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Josh Billings
A masterful retreat is itself a victory.
Norman Vincent Peale
There's an old saying that victory has hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.
Howard Cosell
The most dangerous moment comes with victory.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Genuine victories, the sole conquests yielding no remorse, are those gained over ignorance
Napoleon Bonaparte
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill
If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result is victory, then you must not fight, even at the ruler's bidding.
Sun Tzu
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat
Jean-Paul Sartre
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