Victory Quotes - Page 17

• Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Waiting, Important, Defeat

  "Reality". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic, www.poemhunter.com.

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• Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Color, White, Black

  "The Creator" by Dejan Stojanovic, Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd, "Color," (p. 64), 2000.

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• In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their dreams come true; who can kindle the people with the fire from their own burning souls. The leader for the time being, whoever he may be, is but an instrument, to be used until broken and then to be cast aside; and if he is worth his salt he will care no more when he is broken than a soldier cares when he is sent where his life is forfeit in order that the victory may be won.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Dream, Order, Fire

  Theodore Roosevelt (1913). “Progressive Principles: Selections from Addresses Made During the Presidential Campaign of 1912”

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• Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Despair, Battle

  The Sound and the Fury pt. 2 (1929)

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• Someone who doesn't make the (Olympic) team might weep and collapse. In my day no one fell on the track and cried like a baby. We lost gracefully. And when someone won, he didn't act like he'd just become king of the world, either. Athletes in my day were simply humble in our victory. I believe we were more mature then...Maybe it's because the media puts so much pressure on athletes; maybe it's also the money. In my day we competed for the love of the sport...In my day we patted the guy who beat us on the back, wished him well, and that was it.

  Louis Zamperini

  Sports, Baby, Kings

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• A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

  Honore de Balzac

  Beautiful, Book, Humans

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• We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.

  Jerry Bridges

  Heart, Grieving, Facts

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey”, p.15, Tyndale House

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• Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Waiting, Luck

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• Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Inspiration, Adversity, Sunshine

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.22, Image

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• We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much of what "he" thinks and says are the things that everybody else thinks and says; that he has not acquired the ability to think originally - that is, for himself - which alone gives meaning to his claim that nobody can interfere with the expression of his thoughts.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Thinking, Expression

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.111, Open Road Media

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• War is not won by victory.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War

  Ernest Hemingway (2012). “A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting." (Victory Speech, Nov. 7, 2012)

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Long, Stubborn

  Second Presidential Election Victory Speech, delivered 7 November 2012, McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois

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• I am a Christian…so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Christian, Long

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Small victories are bet­ter than none.

  Neal Shusterman

  Unwind, Small Victories

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

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  Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.

  Julius Caesar

  Training

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• She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life made up of advances that were actually frantic retreats and victories that were concealed defeats.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Struggle, Retreat, Defeat

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.134, Vintage

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• Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Creating, Violence, Problem

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Art, Goal, Revolution

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.

  Alain de Botton

  Revenge, Way, Best Way

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• Grief, of course, is not something that operates according to a specific time frame, and it seems cold to suggest otherwise. Yet when we do not grasp that God is present in pain, we eventually insist on victory or, worse, blame the sufferer for not "getting over it" fast enough. This is more than a failure to extend compassion; it's an exercise in cruelty.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Pain, Grief, Exercise

  Tullian Tchividjian (2012). “Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free”, p.77, David C Cook

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• In short, Israel is the measure of our failings and our incompetence. We have waited for a great leader for years, but none came; we have waited for a mighty military victory, but we were defeated roundly; we have waited for outside powers (the United States or, in its time, the Soviet Union), but none came to our aid. The one thing we have not tried in all seriousness has been to rely on OURSELVES: until we do that with a full commitment to success there is no chance that we can advance towards self-determination and freedom from aggression.

  Edward Said

  Determination, Military, Commitment

  "The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After".

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• All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.

  Dale Carnegie

  Men, Brave, Sometimes

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not enough, is it? Just to follow; just to have faith in someone bigger and smarter and better informed. That's how we're built, that's how every Partial is wired - to follow orders and trust in our leaders - but it's not enough. It never has been. We've followed our leaders, and sometimes they win and sometimes they lose; we do what they say and we play our part. But this is our decision. Our mission. And when we're done, it will be our victory, or our defeat. I don't want to fail, but if I do, I want to be able to look back and say, 'I did that. I failed. That was all me.

  Dan Wells

  Winning, Order, Play

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• Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.

  David Mitchell

  Ordinary, Accepted, Tyranny

  "Cloud Atlas: A Novel".

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• Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mother, Brother, Giving Up

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

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