Victory Quotes
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If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.
Darrell Royal
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
Henry Ward Beecher
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What is a labour victory? I maintain that it is a twofold thing. Workers must gain economic advantage, but they must also gain revolutionary spirit, in order to achieve a complete victory. For workers to gain a few cents more a day, a few minutes less a day, and go back to work with the same psychology, the same attitude toward society is to achieve a temporary gain and not a lasting victory.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
Miguel de Cervantes
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The recent arrest of Younis Tsouli in the United Kingdom was no doubt a significant victory in the war against online terrorism. Tsouli was one of a very select few individuals who have successfully used the Internet as a means to network and share resources with a host of Al-Qaida-linked terrorist organizations.
Evan Kohlmann
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But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.
Victor Hugo
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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
Plato
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The Way of Heaven does not complete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.
Lao Tzu
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I will give up troops gladly as long as I know that they will be used in the right place to bring victory.
Erich Ludendorff
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Victory cannot tolerate truth.
Nachman of Breslov
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On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.
Mia Hamm
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Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was learning the secrets of victory, Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive.
Joanne Rowling
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Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.
Benjamin De Casseres
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We know that progress is not inevitable. But neither was victory upon these beaches. Now, as then, the inner voice tells us to stand up and move forward. Now, as then, free people must choose.
Bill Clinton
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Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!
Leon Trotsky
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I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.
Honore de Balzac
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We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.
Jerry Bridges
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We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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We need to look at Osama bin Laden killing as a great victory for the American military and intelligence personnel and for the American people. A lot of bravery and courage displayed by those folks on behalf of all of us. It's also a good day for the administration. I think President Barack Obama and his national security team acted on the intelligence when it came in, and they deserve a lot of credit, too.
Sarah Palin
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It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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God wants us along for the victory, but it is His fight.
Bill Vaughan
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In our victory over Japan, airpower was unquestionably decisive. That the planned invasion of the Japanese Home islands was unnecessary is clear evidence that airpower has evolved into a force in war co-equal with land and sea power, decisive in its own right and worthy of the faith of its prophets.
Tooey