Top 40 Victory Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “No victory without suffering.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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2. “Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems.”

— Sun Tzu

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3. “There’s no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.”

— Nora Roberts

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4. “Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.”

— Julius Caesar

5. “Today is a new day, so rise up and move forward into the victory God has prepared for you!”

— Joel Osteen

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6. “The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.”

— Ferdinand Foch

7. “All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.”

— Dale Carnegie

8. “The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.”

— Pelé

9. “Victory is not the absence of problems, it is the presence of power.”

— Joyce Meyer

10. “Preparedness is the key to success and victory.”

— Douglas MacArthur

11. “It’s always darkest before the dawn. The bigger your challenge, the closer you are to your victory.”

— Joel Osteen

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12. “Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

13. “So a military force has no constant formation, water has no constant shape: the ability to gain victory by changing and adapting according to the opponent is called genius.”

— Sun Tzu

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14. “The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.”

— Joel Osteen

15. “To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one’s own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.”

— Plato

16. “True strength is not always shown through victory. Stand up, try again and display strength of heart.”

— Rickson Gracie

17. “Without victory there is no survival!”

— Winston Churchill

18. “Carry the burden smilingly and cheerfully, because patience is the key to victory.”

— Rumi

19. “After victory, tighten the cords of your helmet.”

— Ieyasu Tokugawa

20. “Achievers can almost literally taste success because they imagine their goals in such vivid detail. Setbacks only seem to add spice and favor to the final taste of victory.”

— Denis Waitley

21. “I do not steal victory.”

— Alexander the Great

22. “Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded...”

— Audre Lorde

23. “Send your life to a whole new level! Zip up the negative words and start speaking faith and victory into your future.”

— Joel Osteen

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24. “The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.”

— Joseph Joubert

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25. “Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.”

— Bill Cosby

26. “There is only one decisive victory: the last.”

— Carl von Clausewitz

27. “On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson II

28. “So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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29. “The negative principle negates. The positive principle creates. The negative principle doubts. The positive principle believes. The negative principle accepts defeat. The positive principle goes for victory.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

30. “Celebrate even small victories.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

31. “God has destined you to soar. You have victory, freedom and excellence on the inside.”

— Joel Osteen

32. “God is with you, and He’ll help you make spiritual progress-strengthening and encouraging you to keep on keeping on during rough times. It’s easy to quit, but it takes faith to press on to victory.”

— Joyce Meyer

33. “When you walk with Jesus, defeat turns into victory.”

— Beth Moore

34. “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.”

— Audrey Hepburn

35. “If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent’s good will.”

— Dale Carnegie

36. “I glory in conflict that I may hereafter exult in victory.”

— Frederick Douglass

37. “If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

38. “But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”

— George Orwell

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39. “When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.”

— Thomas Hobbes

40. “When I read the Bible, I see that we should have victory in our life and be overcomers, and I can’t even control my temper. I’m impatient. I’m hard to get along with. I’m selfish and self-centered, and I don’t seem to have any control over it.”

— Joyce Meyer