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Victory Quotes - Page 28

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.139, Catholic Way Publishing

And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades.

Robert M. Gates (2011). “From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents an”, p.552, Simon and Schuster

Any victory would be dear at such a price.

Robert E. Lee, Civil War Classics (2014). “Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee (Civil War Classics)”, p.122, Diversion Books

I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.228, Harvard University Press

The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.

Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.499, Xist Publishing

It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.

Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.20, Courier Corporation