Victories Quotes

Self-conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself.

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

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.

Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles.

The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Just as long as something is gained, a lesson is learned.

I do like those. The more quiet victories are always great.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces -- in nature, in society, in man himself.

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Private victories precede public victories.

You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

We have all eternity to celebrate our victories, but only one short hour before sunset in which to win them.

Those that know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.

Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is never woven.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.

When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict;

and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team's victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent.

There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it.

You know, sometimes the little victories that I have throughout the season are not necessarily obvious on the track. Maybe they're another aspect of what I'm doing, winning little victories here and there to get everything in line to be able to perform from top to bottom on race day.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped.

The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Thanks to the heroic sons and daughters of this country, who have paid sacrifices, we have been able to score a number of victories which are encouraging the nation-building process we are engaged in.

I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics.

But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years.

I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others.