Victory Quotes
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The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.
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I came, saw, and overcame.
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Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?
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I mean, in the campaign of '24 and in '28 and '32, you know, Eleanor Roosevelt insists that women have equal floor space. And this is a great victory over time. Then she wants women represented in equal numbers as men. And she wants the women to name the delegates. And the men want to name the delegates. Well, Eleanor is absolutely furious. And because they don't want her to walk away in 1924, she wins. And this is a great political victory. She has floor space equal to the men, and she has the right to name the women.
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If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.
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When the U.S. team went on its historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, I was thirteen years old. Each game in that run - the astonishing victory against Portugal, the resilient win over Mexico, even the gutsy but unlucky effort against the Germans - propelled me to push my other athletic interests aside and focus only on soccer.
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Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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For we seek not the worldwide victory of one nation or system but a worldwide victory of man. The modern globe is too small, its weapons are too destructive, and its disorders are too contagious to permit any other kind of victory.
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Victory comes late-- And is held low to freezing lips-- Too rapt with frost To take it
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It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because that is to excel ourselves; it is pleasant to mortify and subdue our lusts, because that is victory; it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order within the bounds of reason and religion, because this is empire.
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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
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It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.
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A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.
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I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.
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In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.
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A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.
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I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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In the end, the greatest victory we can know is the result of all of our hard work, discipline, and dedication: the realization of our dreams.
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Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. - Diane Arbus By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
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I'll tell you one thing I learned from studying History, Kitty. As soon as you see your opponents are reduced to insulting you personally, you know you're on the way to victory.
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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
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Many times, we miss out on God's best because we give up too soon. We don't realize how close we are to victory.
