Top 72 Some Victories Quotes
#1. Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing
Kiersten White
#2. 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
#3. Some victories didn't taste as sweet as they should
Morgan Rhodes
#4. T's important to handle and learn from your defeats. The losses I've had taught me so much because they humbled me. You learn more from them than you do your victories. They can only make you a better fighter and a better man.
Diego Sanchez
#5. Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.
King Hussein I
#6. I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
Bobby Bowden
#7. What is life, in the end, but a series of small victories and larger failures?
Guillermo Del Toro
#8. Inward battles had lost their chains in the new dawn of Ed's night, and victories were cheering in the calm welcome of new thoughts carrying new perspectives that warmed the tone of his confidence, and made it glow.
Calvin W. Allison
#9. We draw our strength from the battle. From our greatest conflicts come our greatest victories.
Rod Parsley
#10. In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#11. A six-inch blade. I smiled. Did he buy it? It was actually just shy of four - but very nicely weighted - and as Aunt Bernice noted, a little exaggeration was always expected when describing weapons, victories, and body parts.
Mary E. Pearson
#12. Sometimes justice was all about the small victories.
Susan Dennard
#13. I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet victories. Victories over what? Over the "system", over the various bureaucracies not watching me, over my colleagues' indifference, over my patron's ignorance, over the very concept of horn-blowing pride.
Paul Lester Wiener
#14. Failure is not a destination; it's an invitation to unforeseen VICTORIES.
Les Brown
#15. We shall have all eternity in which to celebrate our victories, but we have only one swift hour before the sunset in which to win them.
Robert Moffat
#16. Anyone who is serious about jiu-jitsu should know that the ability to defeat an opponent is nothing more than a metaphor for the ultimate combat, for the most significant victories are the ones we accomplish within ourselves
Rorion Gracie
#17. If my goals and victories can help the world remember Chernobyl and bring a smile to the face of the people still suffering then I dedicate all my success to them.
Andriy Shevchenko
#18. Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories
Horace Walpole
#19. History within itself cannot be transcended ... In history itself there are only relative victories.
Ernst Troeltsch
#20. Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.
Wendell Phillips
#21. 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
#22. Max, for some people there are no victories, just alternate forms of losing.
David Niven
#23. Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
Sam Donaldson
#24. Look for battles big enough to matter but, at the same time, small enough to win some realistic victories.
Johnathan Kozol
#25. The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#26. I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he's a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president.
Pat Robertson
#27. It's not yet clear which side will win many of the struggles outlined in these pages - only that the companies in the crosshairs are up against far more than they bargained for. There have, however, already been some solid victories, too many to fully catalogue here.
Naomi Klein
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad, general outline
it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#31. 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
#33. 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
#34. Some days making it to the end of the day is quite the victory.
Bea
Jennifer Brown
#35. While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are just some of the victories throughout this embattled country.
Paul Gillmor
#36. And I got out of there without punching anyone, kicking anyone, or breaking down in tears. Some days the small victories are all you achieve.
Molly Ringle
#38. Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident. I accepted those victories as I accept this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily.
Abebe Bikila
#39. The only times during my religious instruction I remember hearing God's name invoked with any sincere conviction at all was in the oft-repeated and breathtakingly chauvinistic claim that Israel's 'miraculous' military victories over much-stronger enemies proved that He was ever on Zion's side.
Rick Perlstein
#40. The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you have the right policy and the right strategy, you always have a chance of winning. Without them, you can lose no matter how certain the victory seems.
Tony Blair
#41. Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.
Paulo Coelho
#42. If I had seen one miracle fail, I had witnessed another; and even a seemingly purposeless miracle is an inexhaustible source of hope, because it proves to us that since we do not understand everything, our defeats - so much more numerous than our few and empty victories - may be equally specious.
Gene Wolfe
#43. Therefore the victories of good warriors are not noted for cleverness or bravery. Therefore their victories in battle are not flukes. Their victories are not flukes because they position themselves where they will surely win, prevailing over those wh.
Sun Tzu
#44. What is common to both, however, is the accumulation of many minor victories to make a major victory.
Mao Zedong
#45. A conqueror's victories are his medals, and his enemies are his trophies.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#46. The snake has had its victories over me. And in its victories I am no longer sweet nor gentle.
Tiffany McDaniel
#47. Though (the Tao) is uncreated itself, it creates all things. Because it has no substance, it can enter into where there is no space. Exercising by returning to itself, winning victories by remaining gentle and yielding, it is softer than anything, and therefore overcomes everything hard.
Laozi
#49. It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
Golda Meir
#50. You can win the victories you seek, Jorg. But only if you find better reasons to want them.
Mark Lawrence
#51. What might not be there are the chances you have right now. If you can hold on another hour, another day - if you can live one more good, honorable minute - those are the victories. And they open up the whole world.
Lia Habel
#52. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.
Joan Jett
#53. There's something to be said for small victories when they're made out of chocolate.
Tessa Bailey
#54. But at this point, with only minor victories for the rebels, a cease-fire could only result in a return to our previous status. Or worse.
Suzanne Collins
#55. You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.
John Edward Williams
#56. It's great to celebrate the victories along the way in living your dreams
but never allow the praises of your past pause you from pursuing higher heights.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#57. So few are the easy victories as the ultimate failures.
Marcel Proust
#58. Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing "mere" about symbols.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#59. 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.
William McKinley
#60. One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.
Sun Tzu
#61. Give me life, with its struggles and victories, with its failures and hatreds, with its deep moral meaning and its unknown goal!
E. M. Forster
#62. God will give us strength to overcome the trials sent into our lives and will give us victory in every situation
Sunday Adelaja
#63. But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.
Amy Tan
#64. Glory may be everlasting, yet it is fleeting as well - soon forgotten in the aftermath of even the most famous of victories if they lead to greater disasters.
George R R Martin
#65. Look for small victories and build on that. Each small victory, even if it is just getting up five minutes earlier, gives you confidence. You realize that these little victories make you feel great, and you keep going. You realize that being paralyzed by fear of failure is worse than failure.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#66. The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and contribute to the permanent prosperity and strength of the country far more than the most splendid victories of successful war.
Charles Babbage
#67. But easy victories pall after a while. If one always wins, perhaps one is attempting only what is well within one's capabilities - and there lies a kind of death, don't you think? That which does not grow may well be showing the first signs of atrophy.
Anne Perry
#68. Success is a collection of small victories & disappointing setbacks. Understand the process, stay positive, & focus on the fundamentals.
Bradford Winters
#69. Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#70. I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.
Mahatma Gandhi
#71. We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
Edward Gibbon
#72. But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.
George MacDonald
