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• Victory: An act of defeating an enemy or opponent in a battle, game, or other competition. Oxford Dictionary
• Victory: An occasion when you win a game, competition, election, war, etc. or the fact that you have won.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Victory: A success or superior position achieved against any opponent, opposition, difficulty, etc.  Dictionary.com
• Victory: Achievement of mastery or success in a struggle or endeavor against odds or difficulties.  Merriam Webster
• Winning,  Winners,  Triumph,  Achievement,  Success,  Defeat,  Losing

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Victory requires having the courage to dare to battle

• It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle. Richard M. DeVos
• Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. George S. Patton
• Great victory requires great risk. Rick Riordan
• Courage,  Life as a battle

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Victory requires a strong will and purpose

• Victory is a thing of the will. General Ferdinand Foch
• The will to conquer is the first condition of victory. General Ferdinand Foch
• The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers – these are the masters of victory. Edmund Burke
• Purpose,  Will power

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Victory requires preparation

• To be prepared is half the victory. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• Victory is the child of preparation and determination. Sean Hampton
• Preparation

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Victory requires endurance and perseverance

• Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes. Buddha
• Victory belongs to the most persevering. Napoleon
• Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. Napoleon Hill
• Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory. Joel Osteen
• Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ‘coaches’ ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. Herbert Kaufman
• Your victory is right around the corner. Never give up. Nicki Minaj
• 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
• Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Victory; a matter of staying power. Elbert Hubbard
• Perseverance

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Victory requires valiant living

• Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary. Jack H. Goaslind

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Victory requires a positive attitude

• How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it — you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory. Franco Harris
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Victory requires believing in yourself

• 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. Paul Bryant
• Self-belief,  Confidence

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Victory requires jumping over obstacles, not bashing through them

• Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls; they don’t demolish them. Carlos Castaneda
• Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Og Mandino
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Victory requires positive expectation

• Expect victory and you make victory.  Preston Bradley
• I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat. Joel Osteen
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Victory requires faith

• Faith is affirming success before it comes. Faith is making claims to victory before it is achieved. Robert Schuller
• If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory. William Hazlitt
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Victory requires enthusiasm and energy

• Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories. Abraham Lincoln
• The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination — a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.  Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
• Enthusiasm,  Energy management

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Victory requires letting go of fear and doubt

• A mind focused on doubt and fear cannot focus on the journey to victory.   Mike Jones
• 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. Adlai E. Stevenson
• Fear,  Doubt

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Victory requires self-belief and the will to win

• As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us. Winston Churchill
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Victory requires mental toughness and concentration

• Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory. Bill Russell
• Concentration,  Focus

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Victory requires whole heartedness

• There are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole heart makes just the difference between signal defeat and a splendid victory. H. K. Boyd
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Victory requires unity and teamwork

• Where there is unity there is always victory. Publilius Syrus
• Unity,  Teamwork

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Victory requires knowing yourself and your opponent

• Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you now Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete. Sun Tzu
• The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy. Corrie Ten Boom
• Self-knowledge,  Knowledge

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Victory requires a commitment to action and doing

• Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility. Antoine De Saint-Exupery
• It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
• Commitment,  Action

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Victory requires a look of confidence and control

• Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. Arthur Ashe
• Self-confidence,  Control

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Victory requires practice

• Tomorrow’s victory is today’s practice. Chris Bradford
• Practice

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Victory is won bit by bit

• Victory is not won 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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The greatest victory is over yourself

• He who rules his spirit has won a greater victory than the taking of a city. Jesus
• I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. Aristotle
• If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory. Thomas Kempis
• 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
• There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one’s self… Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance. Vash Young
• There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within. Morihei Ueshiba
• There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself. Plato
• The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. Plato
• If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world. Vinoba Bhave
• We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win. Edward Gibbon)
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… through the practice of self-discipline

• In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves…self- discipline with all of them came first. Harry S Truman
• Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory. Frederick William Faber
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Private victories precede public victories

• Private victories precede public victories. You can’t invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it. Stephen Covey
• The “Inside-Out” approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside- out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves. Stephen Covey

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It is the struggle, not the victory, that matters most

• In the end the great truth will have been learned: that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer than the prize, the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game. Benjamin Cordozo
• The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. Blaise Pascal
• It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. Blaise Pascal
• Strength and courage aren’t always measured in medals and victories. They are measured in the struggles they overcome. The strongest people aren’t always the people who win, but the people who don’t give up when they lose. Ashley Hodgeson
• Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory. Ghandi
• Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. Mahatma Gandhi
• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. Thomas Paine
• Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void. William James

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To experience victory, you also have to experience defeat

• Far better it 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 gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. Teddy Roosevelt
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Victory is to be defeated but not give in

• To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory. Neal Ascherson

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Defeat is a stepping stone to victory …

• Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause. Henry Ward Beecher
• A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred. James Ellis
• 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. Orison Swett Marden

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… if you learn its lessons

• From victory we learn little, from defeat – everything. Jeffrey Fry
• In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. Robert Collier
• We learn little from victory, much from defeat. Japanese Proverb
• Learning,  Failure

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Defeat is often one step before victory

• It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle and makes a man invincible, and form those heroic natures that are now in ascendancy in the world. Do not, then, be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when defeated in a good cause. Henry Ward Beecher

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Defeat gives victory greater sweetness when it comes

• I believe you can’t feel real joy unless you’ve felt heartache. You can’t have a sense of victory unless you know what it means to fail. You can’t know what it’s like to feel holy until you know what it’s like to feel really fucking evil. And you can’t be birthed again until you’ve died. Kelly Cutron
• Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat. Malcolm Forbes

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Victory without the threat of defeat is meaningless

• If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. Robert H. Schuller
• A victory without danger is a triumph without glory. Pierre Corneille

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There can be a fine line between victory and defeat

• Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. Jean-Paul Sartre
• Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat. Horatio Nelson

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Defeat is sometimes preferable to victory

• There are many victories worse than a defeat. George Eliot
• There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. Michel Eyquem De Michel de Montaigne

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Victory and defeat are never permanent

• If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat. Simone de Beauvoir
• Victory shifts, you know, now one man, now another. Homer, The Iliad

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Think calmly and clearly through both victory and defeat

• Success is determined by your ability to remain calm and think clearly through both the setbacks and the victories. J. Goldwag

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Beware lest your victory carry the seeds of future defeat

• Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. Ralph W. Sockman

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Sometimes a defeat can serve as well as a victory

• What treasure can I see in this? No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shape the soul and let the glory out. Susan Jeffers

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Victory reveals your character

• There was a saying that a man’s true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory. Alison Goodman
• 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
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Be a gracious victor

• You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expression, nor show too much pleasure ; but endeavor to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression, that may be. Benjamin Franklin

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Allow others to share in the limelight of victory

• 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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Celebrate your victories, however small …

• Celebrate your victories! Be verbal about it. Haters will say you’re bragging, but those who love you will celebrate with you. Steve Maraboli
• Learn to pat yourself on the back for your past and present victories, no matter how small. Search for things to acknowledge. Write down every strong point you can come up with in your life, past and present. John Kehoe

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… for small victories can have a powerful effect

• Keystone habits create a chain reaction that can significantly influence the success of other habits. Keystone habits create small wins. So to identify the keystone habits in your life, look for those patterns that give you numerous, small senses of victory; places where momentum can start to build.  Charles Duhigg
• To defeat procrastination, learn to tackle your most unpleasant task first thing in the morning instead of delaying it until later in the day. This small victory will set the tone for a very productive day. Steve Pavlina
• A huge body of research has shown that small wins have enormous power, an influence disproportionate to the accomplishments of the victories themselves. Small wins fuel transformative changes by leveraging tiny advantages into patterns that convince people that bigger achievements are within reach. Charles Duhigg
• The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but on significance – and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning. Oprah Winfrey

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We find joy in great victory…

• It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action that man finds his supreme joy. Antoine de Saint-  Exupery
• Victory puts us on a level with heaven. Lucretius
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… but often even greater joy in the simple things of life

• The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys. Jonathan Lockwood Huie
• We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. Bern Williams
• The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. Martina Navratilova
• Savour life’s simple joys

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Make effective use of your victories

• Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories. Polybius
• One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it. Pedro Calderon de la Barca
• You know how to win victory, Hannibal, you do not how to use it. Maharbal

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Victory is sweetest when you do your best

• In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best. Eric Liddell
• The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give. Howard Cosell
• Do your best

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Victory attained by violence and force is short lived

• Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. Abraham Lincoln
• Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary. Mahatma Gandhi
• How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men? Lao Tzu
• Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. John F. Kennedy
• Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe. John Milton
• No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. William Faulkner
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Victory attained from argument and conflict is empty

• 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
• The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

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The greatest victory is to win without fighting

• To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. Sun Tzu
• The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. Sun Tzu, The Art of War
• 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
• The greatest conquerer is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. Chinese Proverb
• You win the victory when you yield to friends. Sophocles

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Sometimes avoiding a battle is the greatest victory

• Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. Norman Vincent Peale

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The greatest victory is the victory of the soul

• There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. Elie Wiesel
• Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory. Aberjhani
• The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, physically, morally and spiritually defeated. F. A. Wickett

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The pursuit of virtue can bring great victory

• There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject to no disappointments, since he that perseveres, makes every difficulty an advancement, and every contest a victory; and this is the pursuit of virtue. Charles Caleb Colton

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Victory is knowing nothing can break you

• I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage… What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you. Paula Giddings

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Victory is rarely cheap …

• There is no victory at bargain basement prices. Dwight David Eisenhower
• For every victory, there is a price. Jacqueline Carey
• Victory and defeat are each of the same price. Thomas Jefferson
• Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself. Brandon Sanderson
• Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone. Pyrrhus
• The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered. Augustine
• Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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… and can bring its own challenges

• The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. Winston Churchill
• The most dangerous moment comes with victory. Napoleon Bonaparte

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Focus more on excellence, less on achieving victory over others

• Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually different and are experienced differently. Stephen Covey
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Words can empower you to victory

• Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside. Joel Osteen
• The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a fleeing army, to change defeat into victory, and to save an empire. Emile DeGirardin
• God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family. Joel Osteen
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Victory is the grace of God

• The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The smile of God is victory. John Greenleaf Whittier
• Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God. Abu Bakr
• Grace,  God

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To the victor belong the spoils

• To the victors belong the spoils. General Ferdinand Foch
• They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy. William L. Marcy
• The victor belongs to the spoils. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• Claim victory and retreat.  Aiken’s Solution
• In a victory speech, I like to thank the opposition, because without their help, I couldn’t have won. Jarod Kintz
• In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable. Winston Churchill
• In victory, you deserve Champagne. In defeat you need it. Napoleon Bonaparte
• One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. Josh Billings
• Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.  Benjamin Decasseres

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