Quotes with victories

  • The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.
  • We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
  • Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

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  • Lawana Blackwell I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
    Lawana Blackwell
    English writer
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  • Baltasar Gracian All victories breed hate, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • George Eliot Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Angela Davis 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.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • John F. Kennedy I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Richard Nixon If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • William Mckinley 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.
    William Mckinley
     
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  • Don Piatt Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.
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  • Bjorn Borg 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.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Bill Flores Obama is not Bill Clinton. I don't think he's willing to let conservatives have any victories at all.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Josh Billings One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • John Milton Peace has her victories no less renowned than war.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • John Milton Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Kin Hubbard Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John Milton Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war.
    Letter to Cromwell
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Ben Shapiro President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and Obamacare. Both are massively unpopular. The stimulus package launched the Tea Party movement. Obamacare led to the Republican wipeout of 2010.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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