Victory

(249 votes)   What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

William R. Alger
1822-1905, American Writer

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(228 votes)   The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

St. Augustine
354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian

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(173 votes)   The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

Lao-Tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

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(169 votes)   The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.

Lao-Tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

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(137 votes)   The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(134 votes)   Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

Plato
BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher

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(124 votes)   Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(119 votes)   Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(118 votes)   Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.

Virgil
c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet

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(116 votes)   The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

Oswald Spengler
1880-1936, German Philosopher

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(116 votes)   Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(101 votes)   Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(101 votes)   Victory; a matter of staying power.

Elbert Hubbard
1859-1915, American Author, Publisher

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(89 votes)   In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(73 votes)   Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.

Basil King

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