The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.(Quote by - Sun-tzu)

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. (Quote by - Count Galeazzo Ciano)

There are many victories worse than a defeat. (Quote by - George Eliot)

God was preparing me, not for victory on court, but for running a foundation to enhance the lives of children with cancer. (Quote by - Andrea Jagger)

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can. (Quote by - Horatio Nelson)

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. (Quote by - Ralph W. Sockman)

The victorious cause pleased the gods, but the victory pleased Cato. (Quote by - Lucanus)

Then should some cloud pass over The brow of sire or lover, Think 'tis the shade By Victory made Whose wings right o'er us hover! (Quote by - Thomas Moore)

You know how to win victory, Hannibal, you do not how to use it (Quote by - Maharbal)

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. (Quote by - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne)

Victory and defeat are each of the same price. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)

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. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)

For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes--not that you won or lost--but how you played the Game. (Quote by - Grantland Rice)

Yield not to temptation, for yielding is sin; Each victory will help you some other to win. (Quote by - H R Palmer)

Genuine victories, the sole conquests yielding no remorse, are those gained over ignorance. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)

Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)

Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. (Quote by - Robert Burns)

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories. (Quote by - Polybius)

Tony Blair is already secretly grinning at the prospect of his third victory. You don't have to settle for that. (Quote by - Michael Howard)

Tony Blair will be remembered as a great friend to Wales because it was his landslide election victory in 1997 that led to devolution. (Quote by - Rhodri Morgan)

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)