Victory Quotes

Victory refers to an instance of having won a competition or battle or succeeded in an effort. It commonly describes the condition of having succeeded in a conflict or other effort, a winged figure representing victory, common in Roman official iconography. See Winged victory, and to achieve a victory, which gives the term a broader and more practical sense than a single short definition would suggest. Taken together, these meanings present Victory as a flexible theme rather than a narrowly technical label, covering the central idea people usually mean when they use the word while still leaving room for closely related senses that appear in real language. Victory therefore works well as a quotation category because it can hold direct statements about the subject, figurative uses that borrow its meaning, and broader reflections that stay anchored to the same central idea. Victory is not limited to a single rigid definition in ordinary language, and that wider range is part of what makes the category useful for grouping related material without losing the term's main sense. When used as a theme, Victory can support serious, reflective, argumentative, or even playful quotations, provided the wording still connects back to the core idea described by the source definitions.

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Photo of Polybius

Polybius

(205 BC-118 BC)

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Arthur Golden

(b. 1956)

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Napoleon Bonaparte

(1769-1821)