Victory Quotes - Page 14

• Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.

  Adolf Hitler

  Victory And Defeat, Mein Kampf, Bears

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• To obtain victory by any means and with any weapon.

  Chris Bradford

  Mean, Weapons

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• Tomorrow’s victory is today’s practice.

  Chris Bradford

  Practice, Today, Tomorrow

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• October is the cruelest month of any election year, but by then, the pain is so great that even the strong are like jelly and time has lost all meaning for anybody still involved in a political campaign. By that time, even candidates running unopposed have abandoned all hope of victory and live only for the day when they will finally be free to seek vengeance on all those treacherous bastards who once passed themselves off as loyal friends and allies and swore they were only in it because they all shared the same hopes and dreams.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Dream, Strong

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

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• It is more important that you should know about the reverses than about the successes of the war. We shall have all eternity to celebrate the victories, but we have only the few hours before sunset in which to win them. We are not winning them as we should, because the fact of the reverses is so little realized, and the needed reinforcements are not forthcoming, as they would be in the position were thoroughly understood...So we have tried to tell you the truth the uninteresting, unromantic truth.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, War, Inspiration

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• There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace.

  Amy Carmichael

  Women, History, Way

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• The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fighting, Victory And Defeat, Imagination

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• Wizard's Eighth Rule Talga Vassternich. (Deserve Victory)

  Terry Goodkind

  Wizards, Deserve

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Naked Empire”, p.450, Head of Zeus

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• People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Jobs, People, Creative

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• our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory

  Charles Bukowski

  Sky, Forever, Cry

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• Defeat is most devastating at the moment of victory" Saint Dane

  D. J. MacHale

  Saint, Defeat, Moments

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• If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on reality, the world we know would drown in blazing happiness.

  Patton Oswalt

  Reality, World, Blazing

  Patton Oswalt (2011). “Zombie Spaceship Wasteland: A Book by Patton Oswalt”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great

  Muriel Spark

  Perseverance, Winning, Doctrine

  Muriel Spark (2014). “Memento Mori”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

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• This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Unusual Things, Defeated, Share

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• Such a display of death - how could it be considered a victory?

  James Dashner

  Maze Runner, Display

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Trilogy”, p.292, Scholastic UK

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• ...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.

  Charles Darwin

  Important, May, Shields

  Charles Darwin (2016). “On the Origin of Species: the Evolution”, p.55, VM eBooks

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• Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.

  Patricia Briggs

  Life, Knowing, Challenges

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• That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the beginning of victory, is obvious. One of the most beautiful examples of this kind of sophistry occurred after 1933 when the German Communists for nearly two years refused to recognize that Hitler's victory had been a defeat for the German Communist Party.

  Hannah Arendt

  Beautiful, Party, Years

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Teach, Sweetness, Please

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• For one brief moment victory was within our grasp!" "And then the game started!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Games, Moments, Brief Moments

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

  Brandon Sanderson

  Mean, Important, Cost

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.227, Macmillan

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• Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Hands, Games, Skills

  Jerome K. Jerome (2012). “The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.135, The Floating Press

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• And is it selfish of me to crave victory, or is it brave?

  Veronica Roth

  Selfish, Brave, Crave

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent”, p.65, HarperCollins UK

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• It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Might, Defeat, Surrender

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.848, Diversion Books

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• The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Stupid, Hands

  Oscar Wilde (2018). “Oscar Wilde Collection”, p.11, Youcanprint

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