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Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
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Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
- Sun Tzu
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu
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All warfare is based on deception.
- Sun Tzu
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When was the last time you took
a different route to work ... just because?
Consider shaking up your life a little (or a lot) ...
for no reason, except to do it.
Let your life be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort.
Full effort is full victory.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Deserve Victory.
- Terry Goodkind
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment,
full effort is full victory.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory.
It can no longer serve to settle disputes...
can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
- John F. Kennedy
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets,
but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
- Abraham Lincoln
Life always rides in strength to victory,
not through internationalism...
but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
If you seek truth, you will not seek
victory by dishonorable means,
and if you find truth, you will become invincible.
- Epictetus
Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror,
victory however long and hard the road may be;
for without victory, there is no survival.
- Winston Churchill
There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Victory has a thousand fathers,
but defeat is an orphan.
- John F. Kennedy
It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
I love deadlines.
I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
- Douglas Adams
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
- Steve Jobs
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
We need to find God, and he cannot
be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass-
grows in silence; see the stars,
the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Steve Jobs' Three Rules of Life ...
1. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
2. Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice.
3. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
A "scream" is always just that -
a noise and not music.
- Carl Jung
See beauty in those unexpected places.
(she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.)
See the opportunity in what looks like inconvenience.
(she steered clear of the traffic jam
and went to the bakery she's been meaning to stop at.)
She embraces the undeclared possibility
in what seems like just another ordinary day.
(her friend is scheduled for cancer surgery
and suddenly everything around her seems so very precious.)
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone
what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach
In case you failed to notice,
in case you failed to see,
this is my heart,
bleeding before you,
this is me down on my knees.
- Jewel
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere,
and many of us will have to pass
through the valley of the shadow of death
again and again before we reach
the mountaintop of our desires.
- Nelson Mandela
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I tried to remember how to exhale.
I had to look away before it came back to me.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank
Habits age men before their time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships -
the ones that last -
are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
You know, one day you look at the person
and you see something more than you did the night before.
Like a switch has been flicked somewhere.
And the person who was just a friend is...
suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
- Dana Scully
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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