Victories Quotes

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.

Even victors are by victories undone.

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

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

But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life.

Thanks to the heroic sons and daughters of this country, who have paid sacrifices, we have been able to score a number of victories which are encouraging the nation-building process we are engaged in.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

The success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium began, Russia made immediate efforts to counteract by invasion of East Prussia.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team's victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent.

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

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.

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.

Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.

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

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand 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.