Victory Quotes - Page 38

• I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Cutting, Finals, Lord

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• Keep my eyes fixed on You, Lord. Help me to stop tinkering and realize my total inability to change. I look to You to change me and give me victory as I focus on Your friendly eyes looking lovingly at me. Amen.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Eye, Giving, Focus

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• Many's very human habit of trusting in himself is generally the last great obstacle blocking his pathway to victory in Christian experience.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Block, Pathways

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• God delights to increase the faith of His children. We ought, instead of wanting no trials before victory, no exercise for patience, to be willing to take them from God's hands as a means. Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.

  George Muller

  Children, Mean, Exercise

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• The greater the trial, the sweeter the victory.

  George Muller

  Trials, Greater

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• The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.

  Bear Bryant

  Life, Believe, Alabama

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

  Lou Holtz

  Goal, Heaven, Focused

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• Victory belong to the most persevering.

  Andre Norton

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• Let us assume that the Turks in whose ranks Europeans were fighting as well, even in high positions, would have conquered Vienna and Europe in 1683 instead of having been forced to withdraw. If the Mohammedans would have gained the victory at the time and Islam would have swept victoriously over Europe, then the Christian churches would have been depoliticized. (...) For the Turks were religiously tolerant, they allowed each religion to continue to exist, provided it was no longer involved in politics - otherwise it was finished.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Christian, Fighting, Europe

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• We call for an end to the killing of one another, and we denounce the violence and fanaticism that threatens life. The victory of the resurrection must be experienced as a victory of life, of brotherhood, of the future, of hope.

  Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

  Brotherhood, Violence, Resurrection

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• It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Brother, Men, Liberty

  "The Second Sex". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, as translated by H. M. Parshley, 1972.

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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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• Feed the troops on victory.

  John Monash

  Troops

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• Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

  Ovid

  Giving, Crowns, Opponents

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• Technically it was a victory for the British, who attacked the patriot fortifications but a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was: out of 2,200 British soldiers 1,034 were killed or wounded, including one in nine of all the officers the British lost in the whole war.

  Geoffrey Wheatcroft

  War, British Soldiers, Nine

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• Ferguson argued that British involvement in World War I was unnecessary, far too costly in lives and money for any advantage gained, and a Pyrrhic victory that in many ways contributed to the end of the Empire.

  David Harsanyi

  War, Ferguson, World

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• Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Spiritual, Men, Firsts

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• There is an aura of victory that surrounds a person of goodwill.

  James Fisher

  Auras, Goodwill, Persons

  James L. Fisher (1984). “Power of the presidency”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory.

  George S. Patton

  Determination, Warrior, Soul

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• Reconciliation is more beautiful than victory.

  Violeta Chamorro

  Beautiful, Reconciliation

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• Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

  Lucy Stone

  Principles, Endure, I Can

  Lucy Stone, Henry Browne Blackwell, Leslie Wheeler (1981). “Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893”, Doubleday

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• Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Long, Half, Please

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• Rejoice in liberating moments of victory when conflicts, trials, and adversity fall momentarily under your command.

  Wes Fesler

  Fall, Adversity, Trials

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• Sometimes the greatest victories we can make for mankind are the victories we make over ourselves.

  Wes Fesler

  Greatest Victory, Sometimes, Mankind

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• The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Intellectual, Tragedy, Doe

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