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The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
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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.
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
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
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Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort.
Full effort is full victory.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment,
full effort is full victory.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Deserve Victory.
- Terry Goodkind
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman
If you seek truth, you will not seek
victory by dishonorable means,
and if you find truth, you will become invincible.
- Epictetus
The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu
Life always rides in strength to victory,
not through internationalism...
but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets,
but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Victory has a thousand fathers,
but defeat is an orphan.
- John F. Kennedy
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
There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
The supreme happiness of life
is the conviction of being loved for yourself,
or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
- Victor Hugo
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
- Victor Hugo
To love beauty is to see light.
- Victor Hugo
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
Music expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that the essence of life is not
in the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust yourself. Only you can live your life.
Only you can taste your victories.
Only you can suffer the sting of your defeats.
Make your own choices, and accept your own consequences -
for better or worse.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill
In the long history of humankind (and animal-kind, too)
those who learned to collaborate and
improvise most effectively have prevailed.
- Charles Darwin
Everything we believe is a matter of evolution and history.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything we say, do, think, and feel
is a product of our personal history
and the collective history of humankind.
Our name for these histories is "prejudice."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The lessons of the past provide the path to the future.
- Anonymous
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen Covey
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy
of this period of social transition
was not the strident clamor of the bad people,
but the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous
Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better
by all parties to leave the past to history,
especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history
rests on something spiritual.
If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history.
If it is weak, it suffers world history.
- Albert Schweitzer
We would like to live as we once lived,
but history will not permit it.
- John F. Kennedy
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason
if we dig deep in our history and remember
that we are not descended from fearful men,
not from men who feared to write, to speak,
to associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
- Edward R. Murrow
The awareness that health is dependent
upon habits that we control
makes us the first generation in history
that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
- Jimmy Carter
The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India,
history will look upon the act of
depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down
on the tracks of history
to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thanks to television, for the first time
the young are seeing history made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside,
is that they cannot win and their participants know it.
Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary
because it invites defeat.
It involves an emotional catharsis,
but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
History is a relentless master.
It has no present, only the past rushing into the future.
To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
- John F. Kennedy
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government
results from too much government.
- Thomas Jefferson
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
- Edward R. Murrow
Study history, study history.
In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
- Winston Churchill
The history of free men is never really written by chance
but by choice; their choice!
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced,
and today we think this more than ever, and are just as wrong
as all previous ages that thought so.
How often have we not seen the truth condemned!
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement
for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests.
We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction
of international tensions and would open the way
to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Those that fail to learn from history
are doomed to repeat it.
- Winston Churchill
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