Small Victories Quotes

• Success is rarely the result of one swell swoop, but more often the culmination of many, many small victories.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Victory, Results, Culmination

  Joseph M. Marshall III (2002). “The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living”, p.143, Penguin

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• 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

  Giving, Victory, Looks

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• Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

  Kara Goucher

  Motivational, Running, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Kara Goucher from Oct 10, 2013

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• The great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed

  Paulo Coelho

  Simple, Victory, Today

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• Don't try to rush progress. Remember -- a step forward, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. Keep believing.

  Kara Goucher

  Inspirational, Moving On, Believe

  FaceBook post by Kara Goucher from Jan 20, 2013

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• I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.

  Charles Bukowski

  Victory, Defeat, Amazed

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• Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.

  Bruce Catton

  Time, Victory, Progress

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  We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

  Howard Zinn

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.208, Beacon Press

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• Success is a collection of small victories & disappointing setbacks. Understand the process, stay positive, & focus on the fundamentals.

  Bradford Winters

  Leadership, Stay Positive, Focus

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• Small victories are bet­ter than none.

  Neal Shusterman

  Victory, Unwind

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a series of small victories and large defeats.

  Charles Bukowski

  Victory, Defeat, Series

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• Celebrate small victories often. Mourn failures quickly. Do what's necessary without fanfare.

  Chris Brogan

  Victory, Celebrate, Mourn

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• Celebrate even small victories.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Life Lesson, Victory, Celebrate

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.292, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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

  Life, Motivational, Softball

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• If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

  William Hazlitt

  Faith, War, Winning

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1260, Delphi Classics

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• With every job I've gotten, I've bought myself something. When 'Glee' was picked up, I rented a piano for the year. For smaller victories, I'll go to dinner with a friend, or go for a walk and think about it all. It's important to say to yourself, Today was a good day.

  Dianna Agron

  Jobs, Good Day, Thinking

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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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• All I ever wanted since I arrived here on Earth were the things that turned out to be within reach. The same things I needed as a baby - to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full. You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled. Who knew?

  Anne Lamott

  Baby, Lonely, Dirty

  "Eating Healthy: Habits To Help You Live a Life That Satisfies the Soul" By Anne Lamott, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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  Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Positive, Success, Gymnastics

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• Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.

  Arthur Ashe

  Softball, Confidence, Winning

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• Incrementalism: In the first generation, the goal of the movement was wholesale social and cultural transformation. Small, incremental victories were too little given the magnitude of America's moral decay. Since 1988, the new leaders have recognized that incrementalism is the surest path to success in political competition. The current movement is committed to securing small victories now, postponing for the long-term more fundamental changes in society and politics.

  Kenneth D. Wald

  America, Goal, Long

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• I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here without committing murder or being murdered; without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then.

  Charles Bukowski

  Past, Agony, Drunk

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• Roland glares at Connor and Connor glares back. Then he says what he always says at moments like this. "Nice socks." Although Roland doesn't look down right away, it derails him just enough for him to back off. He doesn't check to see if his socks match until he thinks Connor isn't looking. And the moment he does, Connor snickers. Small victories are bet­ter than none.

  Neal Shusterman

  Nice, Thinking, Victory

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• The only victory that really counts in prison is survival. But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term; the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it. And it's for those small victories of the heart, and the spirit, and the will that we sometimes risk the body that cradles them.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Mean, Heart, Men

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• When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory so they can retain their dignity while they do as you insist. ~ Kahlan Mother Confessor

  Terry Goodkind

  Mother, Giving, Victory

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