My favorite actress of all times is Bette Davis in Dark Victory. I have seen it six or seven times, and I still cry.
Bettie Page
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
Blaise Pascal
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
George S. Patton
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
We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.
Ralph Peters
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
Albert Pike
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Plato
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... →
Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?
John Podhoretz