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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Horace Mann
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When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

Sir George Savile
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There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else. -Lois McMaster Bujold
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One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

Josh Billings
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Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.

Pyrrhus
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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. -Sun-Tzu
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Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

Louis L'Amour
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We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.

Edward Gibbon
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The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. -Martina Navratilova
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Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte
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Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

Abraham Lincoln
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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. -Arthur Golden
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Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

Polybius
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There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

Elie Wiesel
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On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory. -General Douglas MacArthur
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In war there is no substitute for victory.

General Douglas MacArthur
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Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

General Douglas MacArthur
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Victory has a thousand fathers; defeat is an orphan. -John F. Kennedy
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Until victory always.

Ernesto 'che' Guevara
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Arms are instruments of ill omen. . . . When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men. . . . When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.

Lao tzu
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. -Mahatma Gandhi
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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus
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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt
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Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.  -Theodore Roosevelt
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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt
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It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Nelson Mandela
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Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. -Lois McMaster Bujold
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Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.

Vernon Howard
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What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

William R. Alger
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I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression. -Dylan Thomas
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