Great Victory Quotes - Page 2

• If you can accept losing, you can't win.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Football, Winning

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• Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

  Edwin Markham

  Encouraging, Kindness, Adversity

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• If I didn't have that deep grounding, it would be very easy for me to just be someone who is consumed with anger and hatred. And that would be Trump's great victory: to turn us into replicas of him, just on the other side of a wall screen. I refuse to let me or my family or my movement or my friends be turned into the opposite of Trump. I want to be the antidote for Trump.

  Van Jones

  Wall, Opposites, Hatred

  Source: pen.org

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• Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Failure, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspiration, Men, Competition

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• The president of the University said that night, congratulations to you the students, you've won a great victory, now the war will end. And I'm certain that he believed it that night and I believed it and we went away happy. Four days later, Martin Luther King was assassinated. Two months after that, Kennedy was assassinated. Two months after that, Henry Kissinger emerged from the swamp he was living in at Harvard with a plan to expand the war.

  Bill Ayers

  Kings, War, Congratulations

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.

  Michael Hastings

  War, Media, Government

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• I think the Messianic concept, which is the Jewish offering to mankind, is a great victory. What does it mean? It means that history has a sense, a meaning, a direction; it goes somewhere, and necessarily in a good direction--the Messiah.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Thinking, Offering

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.92, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Right now it is illegal for a service provider to censor or block a site because they don't like it or to privilege someone who pays them extra money. So it's basically a level playing field. I think it was a great victory. It doesn't solve all the problems of our time, but I think we've gotten a much better place.

  Tim Wu

  Block, Thinking, Victory

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I remember my son wanted to go to bed with his cowboy boots on, and we had this fight for like an hour. Then I realized that the only good reason I had for him not to do it is because I didn't want him to. There was really no other reason. And finally I said, "OK, fine." It was a great victory for me, because I realized it doesn't really matter.

  Michael J. Fox

  Fighting, Son, Cowboy

  Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.

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• I'm super happy to see the record doing its thing and for people to like it, but for me, I had a great victory just as a person. I overstepped countless obstacles by creating that record. And the record's a metaphor for the personal steps I [took] throughout the past year.

  Justin Vernon

  Past, Years, Creating

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I mean, in the campaign of '24 and in '28 and '32, you know, Eleanor Roosevelt insists that women have equal floor space. And this is a great victory over time. Then she wants women represented in equal numbers as men. And she wants the women to name the delegates. And the men want to name the delegates. Well, Eleanor is absolutely furious. And because they don't want her to walk away in 1924, she wins. And this is a great political victory. She has floor space equal to the men, and she has the right to name the women.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Mean, Winning, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Whichever point you reach in the future, that will be a miracle! If you reach tomorrow, that will be a miracle! If you reach next week or next year, that will be a miracle! Your every arrival to a point in the future time is a great victory!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Next Week, Years, Miracle

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• I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better.

  Mark Helprin

  Race, Victory, Great Race

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Great victory requires great risk. -Hera

  Rick Riordan

  Inspirational, Success, Courage

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• 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

  Smart, Thinking, Yesterday

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• ...We're people and we're different, all of us. And we should be using our differences to bring ourselves closer together. You know? Not be afraid of something that we don't know. ... It's unfortunate that things take a while to progress like this, but it was a great, great victory for equality. I'm proud New York has the balls to stand up for what's right.

  Justin Timberlake

  New York, Differences, People

  "Justin and Mila: More Than Just Friends". Interview with Jeremy Kinser, www.advocate.com. July 25, 2011.

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• A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Women, Army, Victory

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1875). “Hostages to Fortune: A Novel”, p.13

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• Why do we idolise Christian singers and speakers? We go from glorifying musicians in the world to glorifying Christian musicians. It's all idolatry!Satan is getting a great victory as we seem to worship these ministers on tapes and records and clammer to get their autographs in churches and concert halls from coast to coast.

  Keith Green

  Christian, Victory, Church

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• Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery follow a great victory. Do only what needs to be done without using violence.

  Laozi

  Spring, Army, Conquer The World

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• Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve.

  Ed Miliband

  Congratulations, Optimism, Victory

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• Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death - the seas bear only commerce - men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Beach, Lying, War

  Radio Broadcast to the Nation Following the USS Missouri Surrender Ceremony, delivered 2 September 1945, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan

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• One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South, for a soundcurrency, etc., etc., but I never forgot my party.... I knew that all good measures would suffer if my Administration was followed by the defeat of my party. Result, a great victory in 1880. Executive and legislature both completely Republican.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Party, Building Up, Political

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• We need to look at [Osama bin Laden killing ] as a great victory for the American military and intelligence personnel and for the American people. A lot of bravery and courage displayed by those folks on behalf of all of us. It's also a good day for the administration. I think President [Barack] Obama and his national security team acted on the intelligence when it came in, and they deserve a lot of credit, too.

  Sarah Palin

  Team, Military, Good Day

  Source: www.today.com

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• I would love to see Wladimir Klitschko fight Antonio Tarver for many reasons. One is Tarver talks a lot; he would build up a big fight. And Tarver is coming off of a great victory. So I think he would be a good opponent.

  Emanuel Steward

  Fighting, Thinking, Victory

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