Quotes about Victory
I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.
- Mark Twain
He pointed to the money, and said: The love of it is the root of all evil. There it lies, the ancient tempter, newly red with the shame of its latest victory--the dishonor of a priest of God and his two poor juvenile helpers in crime. If it could but speak, let us hope that it would be constrained to confess that of all its conquests this was the basest and the most pathetic.
- Mark Twain
Not a reproach passed her lips. She was too great for that - she was Joan of Arc; and when that is said, all is said.
- Mark Twain
Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no gain without struggle.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of full victory. It underestimates the value of confrontation and dissolves the confidence born of partial victory by which new efforts are powered.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The darkest hour of our struggle had become the hour of victory. Disappointment, sorrow, and despair are born at midnight, but morning follows. I
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
freedom is not given, it is won.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.