Victories Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 many victories worse than a defeat.

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 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.

Even victors are by victories undone.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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