There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

~ Dwight D Eisenhower

In war there is no substitute for victory.

~ Douglas MacArthur

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Moral victories don't count.

~ Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

~ George Eliot

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

~ Georges Clemenceau

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

~ Blaise Pascal

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

~ Jeseph Joubert

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

~ Abraham Lincoln

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

~ Michel de Montaigne