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“Victory belongs to those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success belongs to those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeed' in the end.”
— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, published in the Hakimiyet-i Milliye on 12 January 1925.
“The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”
— Winston Churchill, Speech House of Commons (11 November 1942).
“Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.”
— Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to General Joseph Hooker, placing him in command of the Army of the Potomac (26 January 1863).
“Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.”
— Polybius, Histories Book X, Ch. 31.
“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, in The Art of War.
“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
— Horace Mann, baccalaureate address, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio (1859); Life and Works of Horace Mann, ed. Mrs. Mary Mann, vol. 1 (1868), p. 575. "The motivating principle of Mann's life was nowhere better or more clearly expressed than in the oft-quoted words with which he closed his last Commencement address at Antioch College". Dictionary of American Biography, vol. 6, p. 243. Mann died a few weeks later. He had served in Congress 1848–1853.

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