Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.

Far better it is to dare might 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 in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.