Victory Quotes – In the aftermath of a hard-fought victory, it is only natural to feel triumphant. Read some quotes about victory to help you celebrate.
In every walk of life, we have to overcome obstacles. Sometimes those obstacles are internal, like self-doubt or a lack of confidence. Other times, the obstacles are external, like an opponent who is trying to stop us from achieving our goals. But no matter what the obstacle is, we can always achieve victory if we try hard enough and never give up.
Achieving victory is something that we all strive for. Whether it’s winning a game, getting a promotion at work, or simply conquering a personal goal, the feeling of triumph is one that is unparalleled.
To help you celebrate your victories (big or small), we’ve compiled a list of our favorite victory quotes. These quotes will inspire you to keep striving for success and remind you that the sweetest victories are often the ones that are hardest fought.
Thought-provoking victory quotes
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
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
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
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it. — Vince Lombardi
There’s no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk. — Nora Roberts
Today is a new day, so rise up and move forward into the victory God has prepared for you! — Joel Osteen
All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory. — Dale Carnegie
If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Holdups serve to help you learn more about what you are trying to achieve, push your boundaries, and score a lot of small victories when you overcome all these unexpected hurdles. — Saidi Mdala
It’s always darkest before the dawn. The bigger your challenge, the closer you are to your victory. — Joel Osteen
Uplifting victory quotes to help you achieve success
If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler’s bidding. — Sun Tzu
Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men. — Miyamoto Musashi
The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat. — Joel Osteen
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
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
Carry the burden smilingly and cheerfully, because patience is the key to victory. — Rumi
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
Know the enemy, know yourself; your victory will never be endangered. Know the ground, know the weather; your victory will then be total. — Sun Tzu
Without training, they lacked knowledge; without knowledge, they lacked confidence; without confidence, they lacked victory. — Julius Caesar
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. — Winston Churchill
Victory quotes to inspire you to win
If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards. — Bear Bryant
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. — George S. Patton
Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat. — Malcolm Forbes
I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars. You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life. — Natalie Cole
The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well. — Pierre de Coubertin
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ‘coaches’ ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. — Herbert Kaufman
I love to win; but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat. — Lou Gehrig
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. — Plato
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. — John F. Kennedy
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory. — Bill Russell
Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory. — Ovid
Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater. — Emil Zatopek
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. — Napoleon Hill
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. — William Hazlitt
No victory without suffering. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Motivational victory quotes to boost your inner strength
To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. — Bruce Lee
While there is no definitive formula for success and winning, there exists a deliberative mindset, confidence and emotional strength. For one must believe they are a champion before they can become one. ― R.J. Intindola
For whatever it’s worth, never fall a victim of the struggle. And when it so happens remain a soldier and a champion. — Don Santo
Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. — Muhammad Ali
When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions. — Evander Holyfield
Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means ‘the love of wisdom.’ — Zig Ziglar
Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony. — Jonah Goldberg
Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion. — Manu Bennett
I believe I have the attitude of a champion and a winner, and I’m not apologetic for it. — Jon Jones
You’re meant for greatness. I don’t care how many times you’ve tried to go for it and failed. Or how many times you’ve attempted to unleash the fire within you. Or how many times you’ve tried to become a badass and fallen short. ― Donnie Boivin
Victorious quotes to elevate winning mentality
You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose. — Lou Holtz
Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers. Your dream is the key to your future. — Mark Gorman
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. — Michael Jordan
You’re going to go years where you just don’t win. That’s okay, as long as you keep trying to improve. — Tiger Woods
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. — Paul Bryant
Sometimes in life you don’t always feel like a winner, but that doesn’t mean you’re not a winner. — Lady Gaga
If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win. — Carl Lewis
I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play. — Boris Becker
Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart. — Bill Cosby
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist; I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. — Albert Einstein
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. — Brian Tracy
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. — Mahatma Gandhi
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. — Napoleon Bonaparte
If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit – you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards. — Bear Bryant
Winners are willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else. — Vince Lombardi
Victory quotes to help you overcome any obstacles
During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus. — Amit Kalantri
Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals. — Denis Waitley
Sometimes you learn, grow and give far more when your back’s against the wall. — Rasheed Ogunlaru
I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. — Michael Jordan
First become a winner in life. Then it’s easier to become a winner on the field. — Tom Landry
Our doubts are traitors
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt. — William Shakespeare
Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory. — Jocko Willink
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. — Buddha
I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It’s a voice of pain and victory. — Anthony Hamilton
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
Obstacles? Don’t be stopped by them be strengthened by them. — Bernard Kelvin Clive
There are no negatives in life, only challenges to overcome that will make you stronger. — Eric Bates
There is only one decisive victory: the last. — Carl von Clausewitz
I glory in conflict that I may hereafter exult in victory. — Frederick Douglass
Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems. — Sun Tzu
Inspirational victory quotes to help you conquer your goals
No one knows what you have been through or what your pretty little eyes have seen, but I can reassure you ~ whatever you have conquered, it shines through your mind. ― Nikki Rowe
Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. — Lou Holtz
Winning doesn’t have to be at someone’s expense. — Frank Sonnenberg
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. — Confucius
Winners make the effort while losers make excuses. — Frank Sonnenberg
They play to win. They have a winning attitude. They keep improving. They make their teammates more successful. — John C. Maxwell
Holdups serve to help you learn more about what you are trying to achieve, push your boundaries and score a lot of small victories when you overcome all these unexpected hurdles. — Saidi Mdala
If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner. — Zig Ziglar
It is sheer madness sometimes, but often, madness is needed to separate the winners from the losers. — Ari Gunzburg
I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude. — Colin Powel
Daily victory quotes to live by
The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most. — Muhammad Ali
Veni, Vidi, Vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered). — Julius Caesar
It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war. — Mark Lawrence
I am not a person who goes in the side of the many, because I prefer the side of the victor. — Kenneth de Guzman
The sweetest victory is that won when everyone counted you out because they believe you can not make it. — N. K. David
The greatest battle you must undertake, the foremost battle you must wage, the most important battle that there is, is the battle of courage versus fear – and there can be only one victor – that victor must be you and courage, or it shall be the dark side and death. — Kevin Michel
Strength and victory… What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear. — Simona Panova
To be successful in reaching goals, the right attitude is to never quit. Confidence is to keep the vision alive, by seeing a victory ahead that is worth fighting for. — Ellen J. Barrier
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory. — Sun Tzu
To be a champion, compete; to be a great champion, compete with the best; but to be the greatest champion, compete with yourself. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Victory quotes to gain your triumph
If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality. — Dr Roopleen
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow. — Thomas Paine
The strong survive, but the courageous triumph. — Michael Scott
Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory. — John Steinbeck
Have patience with all things but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that. — Saint Frances de Sales
Surrender to your fear so you may triumph over it. — Simon Holt
Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride. — Chris Crutcher
Heroism doesn’t always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history. — Mary Roach
You stay in the triumph of the Past,
I will enjoy the Nothingness of Today! — Somya Kedia
Victories are meaningless when the opposition is negligible and the cost of losing is nonexistent. — Mike Klepper
Quotes about victory to help conquering your fears
Success is for those that presses on when they see a wall, find ways around a road block and consistently push boundaries and conquer territories against all odds. — Oscar Bimpong
Believe in yourself and have confidence that you can compete against all odds. Have a vision of what you’d like to accomplish and be able to articulate that vision. — Robert Johnson
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds. — victory quotes by Jesse Jackson
Despite the odds,
When Life helped you Cope!
Cut a little slack to Time too..
It too sometimes need Hope! ― Somya Kedia
Against all odds, if you still persist and create your art, it will be a victory! It will be your victory. Finally, you would win. — victory quotes by Avijeet Das
Taking action, persisting and finding alternative routes to your destination against all odds is the definition of a successful venture. — Oscar Bimpong
Success is for those that presses on when they see a wall, find ways around a roadblock and consistently push boundaries and conquer territories against all odds. — Oscar Bimpong
The one that’s different often has the odds stacked against them but usually ends up with the biggest rewards so it’s always worth it. ― Torron-Lee Dewar
Success in life depends on your desire to keep moving forward despite the odds. ― Lailah Gifty Akita
Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. — Charles Lindbergh
Celebrating victory quotes
Start out by celebrating the best in the situation because it allows us to fall in love with it, which connects us to our passion and emancipates the energy. — Dewitt Jones
Celebrations infuse life with passion and purpose. They summon the human spirit. — Terrence E. Deal
Celebration has many different outfits but she always wears the same beautiful dancing shoes. — Mary Anne Radmacher
One should never, but never, pass by an opportunity to celebrate. — J.D. Malouf
Always celebrate your wins. Big or small. ― Leigh Shulman
Celebrate when it’s time to celebrate but work hard before you even think about celebrating. ― Anuj Jasani
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. — Nelson Mandela
Celebrate when you’re half done, And the finish won’t be half as fun. — Isadora Quagmire
In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction. — Audre Lorde
A lot of hard work comes together to form joy. ― victory quotes by Vineet Raj Kapoor
Take the time to celebrate stillness and silence and see the joy that the world can bring, simply. ― Tony Curl
We are all racers at heart, and what we want to see is out and out racing, and may the quickest man win. — Toto Wolff
Dance in the celebration of your every emotion, believe in the process as the magic of life unfolds everyday. ― Purvi Raniga
The world is self celebrating itself as differentiated for companionship otherwise known as love. ― Wald Wassermann
Celebrate who you are in your deepest heart. Love yourself and the world will love you. ― Amy Leigh Mercree
Final thought
Hope our collection of victory quotes will you show that success is attainable as long as you stay focused and never give up on your dreams. So don’t let anyone or anything stand in your way, and go out there and achieve greatness.
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