"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."
Napoleon Hill

"The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give." Howard Cosell

"The will to conquer is the first condition of victory." Ferdinand Foch

"Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!" Woodrow Wilson

"Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." General George Patton

"It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory." General George Marshall

"Far better it is to dare mighty 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 live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt

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