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Victory Quotes - Page 38

Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

Lucy Stone, Henry Browne Blackwell, Leslie Wheeler (1981). “Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893”, Doubleday

Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.

Livy, Benjamin Oliver Foster, Frank Gardner Moore, Evan Taylor Sage, Alfred Cary Schlesinger (1949). “Livy: Books XXVIII-XXX”

Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.

Jack Weatherford (2005). “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World”, p.8, Broadway Books

If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it.

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.1049, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Victory passes back and forth between men.

Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.179, University of Chicago Press