Victories Quotes

I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years.

I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he's a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president.

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.

I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others.

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.

There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it.

What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

I've always learned when you win a game, no matter what the stats look like, you have to enjoy the victories because they are hard to come by.

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.

I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Even victors are by victories undone.

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.