I came, saw, and overcame. [ Shakespeare ]

The smile of God is victory. [ Whittier ]

Faith is necessary to victory. [ Hazlitt ]

Character is victory organised. [ Napoleon ]

Pardon is the virtue of victory. [ Mazzini ]

Experience is a dumb, dead thing;
The victory's in believing. [ Lowell ]

Defeat may be victory in disguise. [ Longfellow ]

And either victory, or else a grave. [ William Shakespeare ]

The only victory over love is flight. [ Napoleon ]

Another such victory and we are done. [ Pyrrhus after his second victory over the Romans ]

The champion true
Loves victory more when, dim in view,
He sees her glories gild afar
The dusky edge of stubborn war,
Than if th' untrodden bloodless field
The harvest of her laurels yield. [ Keble ]

God on our side, doubt not of victory. [ William Shakespeare ]

The world recedes; it disappears!
Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears
With sounds seraphic ring:
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O Grave! where is thy victory?
O Death! where is thy sting? [ Pope ]

To whom God will, there be the victory! [ William Shakespeare ]

I love victory, but I love not triumph. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Better a lean peace than a fat victory. [ Proverb ]

How beautiful is victory, but how dear! [ Boufflers ]

The more Moors, the greater the victory. [ Proverb ]

Victory belongs to the most persevering. [ Napoleon I ]

The harder match'd, the greater victory. [ William Shakespeare ]

Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

But true peace can be had only by victory. [ George Hodges ]

There's a lean fellow beats all conquerors. [ Dekker ]

The best victory is to vanquish one's heart. [ Mme. de Saint-Surin ]

The flush of youth soon passes from the face,
The spells of fancy from the mind depart;
The form may lose its symmetry, its grace.
But time can claim no victory over the heart. [ Mrs. Dinnies ]

It is a great victory that comes without blood. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The noblest victory is to conquer one's own heart. [ La Fontaine ]

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won. [ Caroline L. Gascoigne ]

He that returns a good for evil obtains the victory. [ Proverb ]

Victory belongs to him who has the most perseverance. [ Napoleon I ]

He who makes an attack in the night, steals a victory. [ Alexander the Great ]

Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory. [ Virgil ]

He gets a double victory who overcomes himself, when he does his enemy. [ Proverb ]

It is not the victory that makes the joy of noble hearts, but the combat. [ Montalembert ]

You know how to conquer, Hannibal, but you know not how to profit by your victory. [ Maharbal in Livy ]

He conquers twice who, at the moment of victory, conquers (i.e. restrains) himself. [ Publius Syrus ]

The weakness of woman gives to some men a victory that their merit would never gain.

To a father who loves his children victory has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion. [ Napoleon I ]

Give me the character and I will forecast the event. Character, it has in substance been said, is victory organized. [ Bovee ]

The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blenches, the thought that never wanders - these are the masters of victory. [ Burke ]

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exert herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes, that she may have another by a defeat. [ Colton ]

A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours. [ Tillotson ]

The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory, and to save an empire. [ E. de Girardin ]

To the diamond is attributed the virtue of the talisman, and it is even said that he who wears the stone is always assured of victory, however numerous his enemies may be. [ Garcias ab Horto ]

There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory. [ Chapin ]

No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or agreement; no peace is ever in store for any of us but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts. [ John Ruskin ]

The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort. [ Ruskin ]

Those who start for human glory, like the mettled hounds of Actaeon, must pursue the game not only where there is a path, but where there is none. They must be able to simulate and dissimulate; to leap and to creep; to conquer the earth like Caesar, or to fall down and kiss it like Brutus; to throw their sword like Brennus into the trembling scale, or, like Nelson, to snatch the laurels from the doubtful hand of Victory, while she is hesitating where to bestow them. [ Colton ]