Victory Quotes - Page 16

• Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.

  Joyce Meyer

  Maintaining, Difficult

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• Anyone? On Snow's visit before the Victory Tour, he challenged me to erase any doubts of my love for Peeta. "Convince me," Snow said. It seems, under that hot pink sky with Peeta's life in limbo, I finally did. And In doing so, I gave him the weapon he needed to break me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Loss, Sky, Snow

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.156, Scholastic Inc.

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• The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Art, Giving, Spurs

  Miguel de Cervantes (2015). “Don Quixote (StoneHenge Classics): The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.107, StoneHenge Classics

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• The crazy people of the world...shouldn't get to win. If God won't make it better after they do have their shitty little victories, then ordinary people have to. They have to try, at least.

  Stephen King

  Crazy, Winning, People

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• If I believe I will win, then victory will believe in me.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Winning, I Will Win

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.31, HarperCollins UK

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• Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Struggle

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

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• Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

  John Steinbeck

  Mean, Greatness, Triumph

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.45, Penguin

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• With regard to power, women don't have the vanity men have. They don't need to make power visible, they only want the power to give them the other things they want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge. Peace. They are rational, power-seeking planners, who think beyond the battle, beyond the victory celebrations. And because they have an inborn capacity to see weakness in their victims, they know instinctively when and how to strike. And when to stop. You can't learn that.

  Jo Nesbo

  Revenge, Thinking, Men

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• The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

  Pat Conroy

  Running, Mind, Fuel

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.44, Open Road Media

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• Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time that this wound had not been given to him in order to turn the knife in it, that it had to become a blossom and had to shine. That this wound did not blossom yet, did not shine yet, at this hour, made him sad. Instead of the desired goal, which had drawn him here following the runaway son, there was now emptiness.

  Hermann Hesse

  Running, Heart, Fighting

  "Siddhartha".

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• The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Effort, Gains, Whole Life

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

  Winston Churchill

  Winning, Long, Unconquerable Will

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• If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man must discover them. If the naked are clothed; if the hungry are fed; if justice is done; if labor is rewarded; if superstition is driven from the mind; if the defenseless are protected, and if the right finally triumphs, all must be the work of man. The grand victories of the future must be won by man, and by man alone.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  People, Justice, Humanity

  "Ingersollia: Gems of Thought".

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• Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Easter, Hands

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Here, in Alethkar, men often spoke of the legends -- of mankind's hard-won victory over the Voidbringers. But when weapons created to fight nightmares were turned against common soldiers, the lives of men became cheap things indeed.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Fighting, Men, Soldier

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.668, Macmillan

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• Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

  Aberjhani

  Compassion, Soul, Crowns

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.66, Lulu.com

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• Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. 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. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

  C. S. Lewis

  Loss, Evil, Decision

  "The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics".

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• He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

  John Steinbeck

  Ideas, Laughing, Littles

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.173, Penguin

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• Do not forget: seek to win all your battles, including those you fight against yourself. Do not fear the scars. Do not be afraid of victory.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fighting, Winning, Battle

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.13, Booklassic

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• It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience. The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of paradox, where through the ugly defeat of a cross, a holy God is utterly glorified. Victory comes through defeat; healing through brokenness; finding self through losing self.

  Charles Colson

  Healing, Self, Achievement

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.25, Zondervan

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• America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say “perception” because America is a very all-or-nothing society… We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasn’t uncontested, it was positively devastating.

  Max Brooks

  War, America, Perception

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.52, Broadway Books

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• The experiences of men who walked with God in olden times agree to teach that the Lord cannot fully bless the a man until He has first conquered him. The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Blessing, Men, Degrees

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• When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

  Thomas Hobbes

  War, Men, World

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown?

  George R. R. Martin

  Girl, Crowns, Safe

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.108, Bantam

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• [...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.

  Aldous Huxley

  Kings, Holiday, Technology

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “Heaven and hell”

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