Victories Quotes

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.

While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are just some of the victories throughout this embattled country.

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

Just as long as something is gained, a lesson is learned. I do like those. The more quiet victories are always great.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

You know, sometimes the little victories that I have throughout the season are not necessarily obvious on the track. Maybe they're another aspect of what I'm doing, winning little victories here and there to get everything in line to be able to perform from top to bottom on race day.

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.

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.