Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.

Henry Ward Beecher

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• Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Change
  • Challenges
  • Victory

• I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Think
  • Gold
  • Victory

• You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Believe
  • May
  • Fear

• What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Victory
  • Security
  • Tax

• There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

  

  Vash Young
  • Life
  • Victory
  • Achievement

• I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• I have taken the marshmallows off the sweet potatoes, however. They would make a big pan of sweet potatoes and cover it with marshmallows. My kids would love it if I would do that for them!

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Kids
  • Sweet
  • Big

• There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • World
  • Air
  • Victory

• I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Life
  • Real
  • Girl

• Our dog, Comet, is a Lab/poodle mix. She's goofy and silly and sweet.

  

  Garth Stein
  • She
  • Dog
  • Sweet

• Shell Oil's decision to pull the plug on drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea is a major victory for the Arctic.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Decision
  • Sea
  • Victory

• Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  • History
  • Without
  • Defeat

• Sooner or later, Israel will have to defeat Hamas. There is no way around it.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Way
  • Israel
  • Defeat

• Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Cooking
  • Depth

• They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • House
  • Sweet
  • Plan

• Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Great
  • God
  • Victory

• I went to the Talladega 500 with a girl I had just met. She was very sweet with childlike qualities. No titties! (p. 113).

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • She
  • Girl
  • Sweet

• But fair the exil'd Palm-tree grewMidst foliage of no kindred hue;Through the laburnum’s dropping goldRose the light shaft of Orient mould,And Europe’s violets, faintly sweet,Purpled the mossbeds at its feet.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Light
  • Sweet
  • Tree

• I think I remember being held by my mum as a baby.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Baby

• I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Find
  • River
  • Rowing

• When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases.

  

  John Otto Limp Bizkit
  • Time
  • Practice

• It astounds me that I just keep getting better. I'm going to keep believing in myself and realize that look at Annika, when she was winning two, three tournaments a year, people were like, well, how much better can she get? I think, why can't I do that.

  

  Cristie Kerr
  • Believe
  • Winning
  • Tournaments

• Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Nature

• Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Sweet
  • Victory
  • Defeat