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Victory Quotes

Lines on triumph, unity and staying grounded.

The strongest line in this set argues that a democracy should never let arrogance follow a win, nor let despondency follow a loss, a balance that shows up again and again across these quotes. Another describes soldiers and civilians as one family whose unity is what makes triumph possible.

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Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

Quotes by Aeschylus

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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.

Quotes by Adlai Stevenson I

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I don't think I'm capable of giving a character every possible victory, no matter how much I love them, without feeling as if their ending isn't genuine to their actual trials.

Quotes by Adam Silvera

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So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.

Quotes by Adam Schiff

Achievement Quotes

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My most memorable food challenge was probably the Big Texan in Amarillo. All the big executives called me because it was such an iconic challenge, and a victory in that would be a legitimizing device for myself as much as...

Quotes by Adam Richman

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As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.

Quotes by Adam Hochschild

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Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.

Quotes by Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

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Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.

Quotes by Abu Bakr

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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

Abraham Lincoln

Celebration Quotes

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Our soldiers and people form one family. United, we may count on victory.

Quotes by Zhang Zhidong

A few older lines here come from historical labor and independence movements, using triumphant language for causes long since settled by history. For related reading on winning and mood, see our achievement quotes and celebration quotes.