Best 1287 quotes in «victory quotes» category

Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.

Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.

Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic invention, has thrown him back fifteen centuries. The only thing that would be still worse would be victory for the Jew through Bolshevism. If Bolshevism triumphed, mankind would lose the gift of laughter and joy. It would become merely a shapeless mass, doomed to grayness and despair.

Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.

Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again.

Dead men have no victory.

Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.

Confidence comes from victory, but strength comes from the struggle.

Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

Defeat may be victory in disguise.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.

[Donald Trump] is still pretty limited in the effect that he can have because he so disqualified himself with such a large number of voters that I don't think that there is an actual a path to victory for him. But he is at least doing a better - engaging in a better strategy than he had previously.

Do not scorn little victories.

Democracies are notorious for a tendency to obey the feelings rather than the mind; thus the nature of democracies often makes itdifficult to conclude a peace after a hard-won war. Generous victors are rare.

Don’t let a first-set victory lead into a second-set slump

Don't let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.

Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.

Deliverance is always found on 'the mount'; living faith must first prove to God that it has taken His word and promise for victory.

Each of us has his cowardice. Each of us is afraid to lose, afraid to die. But hanging back is the way to remain a coward for life. The Way to find courage is to seek it on the field of conflict. And the sure way to victory is willingness to risk one's own life.

Don't focus on the victory, focus on the task.

Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.

Dream big, sacrifice all, and you will enjoy victory.

Election victories are a harvest. You plant the seed. For months or years, you water and tend them. In the election season, you reap the harvest.

Even if there comes a time when you do not hear my voice, do not give up. Do not despair. Do not stop fighting for your freedom until you have victory!

Even if you rise up a thousand times, your side will never achieve victory. ~Ulquiorra

Even as they are now pointing to God and praising God for that victory, something terrible happens; there's a demonic spirit now that referees, and the officials, and they say Oh did you see that? He just referred to God. We need to stop that and we need to disqualify them! And they're punished for their righteousness by the demonic spirit that's inside the referees.

Every loss is temporary. Every victory is eternal.

Even victors are by victories undone.

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.

Every great thing starts with an idea, followed by a doubt and finally a resolve to abandon or pursue. Victory is a treacherous journey.

Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.

Every victory accomplished with weapons is a funeral that should be mourned.

Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.

Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.

Everything on this earth can be made into something better. Every defeat may be made the foundation of a future victory. Every lost war may be the cause of a later resurgence. Every visitation of distress can give a new impetus to human energy. And out of every oppression those forces can develop which bring about a new rebirth.

Factors in the art of warfare are: First, calculations; second, quantities; third, logistics; fourth, the balance of power; and fifth, the possibility of victory is based on the balance of power.

Every word written is a victory against death.

Failure is not a destination; it’s an invitation to unforeseen VICTORIES.

Failure is nothing but success trying to be born in a bigger way. Most seeming failures are just installments toward victory!

Feed the troops on victory.

Feminism's latest victory: the right to get your limbs blown off in war. Congratulations.

Fire opens the gates of victory.

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

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.

Find a victory in every defeat to remain hopeful and find a defeat in every victory to remain humble.

For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped it to conquer Spain and organize Fatimid Egypt.

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

For decades the G.O.P. has won elections by appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy — a process that reached its epitome when George W. Bush won re-election by posing as America's defender against gay married terrorists, then announced that he had a mandate to privatize Social Security.