Victory Quotes - Page 7

• You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.

  Winston Churchill

  Aim, Asks

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• Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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• A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.

  Terry Pratchett

  Inspirational, Winning, Thinking

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• Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Military, Half, Be Prepared

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.346

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• Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Peace

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

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• Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Failure, Loss

  FaceBook post by Andre Agassi from Feb 25, 2015

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• History is written by the victors.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Humorous, Winning

  Edmund Murray, Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1995). “Proceedings of the International Churchill Societies 1992-1993”, Churchill Center

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• I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me!

  Jimmy Connors

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing.

  Jay Haley

  Winning, Opponents, Impossible

  Jay Haley (1969). “The power tactics of Jesus Christ, and other essays”

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• I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.

  Abebe Bikila

  Sports, Country, Running

  "50 stunning Olympic moments: Abebe Bikila's 1960 marathon victory - in pictures" by Steven Bloor, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

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• When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer, you beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.

  Stuart Scott

  Death, Courage, Art

  "ESPN Sportscaster Stuart Scott Dies At 49". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www.npr.org. January 4, 2015.

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• If we dare to win, we should also dare to lose

  Lee Chong Wei

  Inspirational, Sports, Attitude

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• When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.

  Bill Bradley

  Inspirational, Sports, Hard Work

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• This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence -- but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Life, Motivational, Encouraging

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales”, Vintage

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• Sooner or later, a man if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and take.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Wise, Life Lesson, Good Day

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• The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

  Howard Zinn

  Hope, Future, Thinking

  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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• It is important to remind young people that peace is the only victory.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Peace, People, Important

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• Faith-not a faith in one's self or in one's own powers but faith in principle; in the Something Great which upholds right, and which may be relied upon to give us the victory in due time. Without this faith it is not possible for any one to rise to real greatness.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Faith, Real, Greatness

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ”, p.20, e-artnow

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• A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.

  Livy

  Peace, Anti War, Harmony

  "The History of Rome".

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• As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.

  C. S. Lewis

  Long, Understanding, Finals

  "The Weight of Glory". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1949.

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• No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Defeated You, Matter, Born

  "The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.

  Edmund Burke

  Perseverance, Eye, Relax

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• From heaven's standpoint, all spiritual victories are won not primarily in the pulpit, not primarily in the klieg light of publicity, nor yet through the ostentatious blaring of trumpets, but in the secret place of prayer.

  Paul Billheimer

  Spiritual, Prayer, Light

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• My dad was a member of the Greatest Generation that achieved victory in World War II. This was the generation that saved the world from fascism, came home and built the great American middle class, led the way in the civil rights movement, protected our environment, and created great programs like Medicare.

  John F. Kerry

  Dad, War, Home

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• It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Writing, Men, Causes

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