Top 100 Quotes About Victories
#1. The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.
Jim Costa
#2. A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.
Walter Lippmann
#3. Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.
Aristotle.
#4. No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller ... whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness were arguably victories more important than those of Alexander the Great, because they have implications still for every living person.
Theodore Zeldin
#5. Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
Kara Goucher
#6. If we don't know ourselves, our essence, where our true power comes from, we will believe our power comes from collecting victories, trophies, money, or recognition. And these are all fine, but it's not ultimately what life is about. When we think it is, we really waste our greatest possibilities.
Arianna Huffington
#7. Congratulations to the new Wayne State men and women's rugby team for winning their inaugural victories on their very first weekend. I am sure there will plenty more victories for the "Children of the Corn", in the games to come.
Brian Vizard
#8. Our most valuable victories are those which go without praise.
Chris Matakas
#9. I'd forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe.
Steven Moffat
#10. Instead of dwelling on the failures of today focus on the victories of tomorrow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#11. The Tea Party definitely scored a significant victory with Senator Cruz's election in 2012 and scored victories in some statewide primaries. But to me, as the Tea Party gets stronger within the Republican Party in Texas, the prospect of a blue Texas becomes stronger and stronger.
Julian Castro
#12. The good teams, the dominant teams, aren't necessarily dominant in stadiums, but they are dominant largely in moments, when they do what's required to get out of stadiums with victories.
Mike Tomlin
#13. Don't get hung up on the hard times, the challenges. Tell your story by highlighting the victories. Because it's your victories that will inspire, motivate, encourage other people to live their stories in grander ways.
Iyanla Vanzant
#14. Little victories are everything in a world where worst-case scenarios are on an endless loop in your head
Sara Barnard
#15. I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life's dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#16. Victories are won while on your knees! Keep praying for those who rise up against you. Fear not. The Lord has rectified the problem. Prayer is POWERFUL!!
Anita R. Sneed-Carter
#17. Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again.
Ira Glasser
#18. 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.
Leon Trotsky
#19. Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well.
Winston Churchill
#20. I thank God for all the victories and conquests I've had this year as a player and I bring to the altar two prizes. This is first my son who is about to be born. The other is my trophy from Fifa, which I want to dedicate to God.
Kaka
#21. The greatest victories are therefore never without the shadow of loss; every path you take, no matter how lofty or effulgent, aches not only with the memory of what you left behind, but with the ghosts of all the untaken paths, now never to be taken, running parallel.
Paul Murray
#22. Victories attained by right thought can only be maintained by watchfulness. Many give way when success is assured, and rapidly fall back into failure.
James Allen
#23. I like the race, rather than the winning.
Do you really?
Yes, I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better.
Mark Helprin
#24. Just as Alexander wept upon learning he had no more enemies to conquer, finite players come to rue their victories unless they see them quickly challenged by new danger. A war fought to end all wars, in the strategy of finite play, only breeds universal warfare.
James P. Carse
#25. Will build you up, people who will celebrate your victories, not people who will criticize and be jealous any time you succeed.
Joel Osteen
#26. Now at last I have come to see what life is, Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun, And the brave victories that seem so splendid Are never really won.
Sara Teasdale
#27. The soul has neither beginning nor end [They] come into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of their previous lives
Origen
#28. Glorious victories make fine songs, Yarvi, but inglorious ones are no worse once the bards are done with them. Glorious defeats, meanwhile, are just defeats.
Joe Abercrombie
#29. The best way to develop rational, well-balanced confidence is to go after a few victories immediately following a failure.
John C. Maxwell
#30. Useful knowledge, practical kindness, and beneficent laws
these are not the Gospel; but, like philosophy, they are, or may be, its handmaids. They may make its task smooth and grateful; they may associate themselves with its victories, or they may prepare its way.
Henry Parry Liddon
#31. Learn to celebrate all of life's victories even the ones no one notices
Latrea Wyche
#32. 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.
Donald T. Regan
#33. If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.
Arthur Ashe
#34. It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.
Soren Kierkegaard
#35. Just as long as something is gained, a lesson is learned. I do like those. The more quiet victories are always great.
Jon Heder
#36. We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.
Paul Farmer
#37. My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what will live forever, is my Civil Code.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#38. You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.
Matthew Thomas
#39. The victories are what I judge things on.
Andrew Luck
#40. That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
Malcolm Gladwell
#41. It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse. And so every one of us shares the supreme ordeal
carries the cross of the redeemer
not in the bright moments of his tribe's great victories, but in the silences of his personal despair.
Joseph Campbell
#42. To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad is better than to destroy them. For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the supreme of excellence. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence.
Sun Tzu
#44. Modern colonialism won its great victories not so much through its military and technological prowess as through its ability to create secular hierarchies incompatible with the traditional order.
Ashis Nandy
#45. It is an axiom of political life that you never raise expectations, whether in a political or military campaign, because your defeats are then magnified and your victories discounted.
Charles Krauthammer
#46. Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.
Lord Acton
#47. This was the story of our lives: minor insurrections, tiny victories, a brief chance to ridicule our oppressors, little floating vessels of hope amid a great sea of uncertainty, deprivation and fear.
Jojo Moyes
#48. Too often we make the mistake of remembering what we should forget-our hurts, failures and disappointments -and we forget what we should remember-our victories, accomplishments and the times we have made it through.
Joel Osteen
#50. The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
Aberjhani
#51. Sometimes the smallest victories in life are more rewarding than the greatest milestones.
Katie Kacvinsky
#52. God has reserved momentous victories and great rewards for us, but we'll never make it to our milestones if we can't make it through our moments.
Beth Moore
#53. People often find themselves achieving victories that are empty, successes that have come at the expense of things they suddenly realize were far more valuable to them.
Stephen R. Covey
#54. True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.
Emile M. Cioran
#55. There is no such thing as good enough. You, your team, and your equipment must be the best. That is how you will win victories.
Gene Kranz
#57. 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
Sun Tzu
#58. Great losses come when we move too quickly; great victories come when we wait and seize the right opportunity.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#59. But Homer's words are as costly and admirable to Homer, as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#60. Sometimes, life happens in the little victories.
Amy Matayo
#61. Life, like war, is a series of mistakes,he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes: organize victory out of mistakes.
Frederick William Robertson
#62. I will not play it safe!
I want to experience the length, depth, and breadth of life.
I'm not just here for the victories... I'm here for the scars.
Steve Maraboli
#63. I'm dealing with very, very talented people, smart people, good people. And I think they will be competing. We still have a competition. I had great victory yesterday. South Carolina was amazing. New Hampshire was amazing. The size of the victories, I think, were incredible.
Donald Trump
#64. 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.
George Eliot
#65. Regardless of one victory, two victories, four victories, there's never been a victory by a cancer survivor. That's a fact that hopefully I'll be remembered for.
Lance Armstrong
#66. Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.
Abraham Lincoln
#67. Time always wins; our victories are only delays; but delays are sweet, and a delay can last a whole lifetime.
Rebecca Solnit
#68. I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.
Romola Garai
#69. I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.
Mahatma Gandhi
#70. Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories.
Ron Fournier
#71. When you say politics, you conjure a whole bunch of associations: elections, campaigning, debates, fundraising. None of this exists in Russia! We are still fighting not for election victories but for having elections at all.
Garry Kasparov
#72. One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Josh Billings
#73. Out of his private victories, public victories began to come.
Stephen R. Covey
#74. The best leaders are humble enough to realise their victories depend upon their people.
John C. Maxwell
#75. All of West Ham's away victories have come on opponents' territory this season
Rob Hawthorne
#76. There are no standards and no possible victories except the joy you are living while dancing your run. You are not running for some future reward-the real reward is now!
Fred Rohe
#77. Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
Sun Tzu
#78. 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.
Plato
#79. Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#80. If the spirited crowd expected a speech exalting recent Union victories, they were disappointed. In keeping with his lifelong tendency to consider all sides of a troubled situation, Lincoln urged a more sympathetic understanding of the nation's alienated citizens in the South.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#82. Feb. 9, 1999 Dear Friend, Without your previous support, Bill Clinton and I would not have won our victories for the American people in 1992 and 1996 ... And to win in 2000, I need you by my side.
Al Gore
#83. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.
C.S. Lewis
#84. The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
William J.H. Boetcker
#85. A real man works for his victories and wins them through the strength of his body and the force of his mind
Ava Ashley
#86. Glorious failures are often much more wonderful than easy victories.
Jonathan Friesen
#87. I really don't think there's a lack of good will between members of the parties. I go back a long way with a lot of Republicans, so I don't think it's personal. But there does seem to be a much greater gap in both the philosophy and emphasis on partisan victories as opposed to policy development.
John Yarmuth
#88. Loving means being open to miracles, to victories and defeats, to everything that happens each day that was given us to walk upon the face of the Earth.
Paulo Coelho
#89. Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?
Christopher Fry
#90. Let me not be so vain to think that I'm the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats.
Ze Frank
#91. Listen: Love your fiction, even if you hate the act of creating that fiction, love the stories to a fault. Cry at your tragedies, laugh at your jokes, rejoice at your character's victories - or give it all up and go knit a damned sweater, instead.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#92. All victories have their foundation in careful preparation.
Martin Yate
#93. When the lows are so immense, victories are small. But they are there despite it. You just have to know them when you see them, little pockets of light and hope hidden away in darkness.
Cecelia Ahern
#94. Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
Henry Ward Beecher
#95. I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.
John Sayles
#96. You have to fight extraordinary battles to win extraordinary victories.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#97. I think about our fights the day after we have them. I am sharp, witty. I kick your ass. The things I never think about until the moment's passed. Delayed. Little victories and closing summations.
Chloe Brushwood Rose
#98. Helping people is difficult and unpredictable, and our interventions don't always work, but successes are possible, and these victories are incredibly important.
Nicholas Kristof
#99. 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.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#100. The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly.
Henry Rollins
