Sunday 17 November 2013

Victories - Quotes

Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. - Unknown

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt

Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way – like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows. - Dan Simmons

For every victory, there is a price. - Jacqueline Carey

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory. - Miguel de Cervantes

Get out of that negative environment and get into an atmosphere of victory, where people build you up rather than tear you down. Find a place where people will encourage you and challenge you to be the best you can be. Find a place where people inspire you to reach for new heights. Friend, you have to envision good things happening to you before they ever will. - Joel Osteen

Great victory requires great risk. - Rick Riordan

I firmly believe that any man's finest hours – his greatest fulfilment of all that he holds dear – is the moment when he has worked his heart out in good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious. - Vince Lombardi

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. - Jean-Paul Sartre

If you have a vision of victory for your life, you can rise to a new level. But as long as you have your head down, with your gaze on the ground instead of on your possibilities, you run the risk of moving in the wrong direction and missing out. - Joel Osteen

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. - William Hazlitt

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you. - Buddha

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. - Diane Arbus

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before. - Polybius 

Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with their lives. Such selfless courage is a victory in itself. - N. D. Wilson

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself. - Brandon Sanderson

The first place we must win the victory is in our own minds. If you don't think you can be successful, then you never will be. - Joel Osteen

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. - Marcus Aurelius

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. - Pascal

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. - Unknown

The virtue of all achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat. - A. J. Cronin 

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. - Michel de Montaigne

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

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory. - Alison Goodman

To be prepared is half the victory. - Miguel de Cervantes

Tomorrow's victory is today's practice. - Chris Bradford

We often rebel against the strenuousness and chaos of our time. But historically it has always been in such time that man won his great inner victories. E. M. McKee

Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains. - Marvin J. Ashton 

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary. - Mahatma Gandhi

Victory belongs to the most persevering. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Victory belongs to those that believe in it the most and believe in it the longest. - Randall Wallace

Victory is not possible, if one doesn’t learn from the past and mistakes made. - Auliq Ice

Victory is not won in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more. - Louis L'Amour 

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. - Malcolm D. Forbes

Victory is the thing of the will. - Ferdinand Foch

Victory shifts, you know, now one man, now another. - Homer

Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day. - Phil Jackson

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. - Harriet Woods

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