Victory Quotes - Page 29

• Victories come when their time comes. Often later than you wish. Patience is an essential quality of a coach's profession.

  Viacheslav Platonov

  Volleyball, Wish, Quality

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• For the players to put their minds and vigour into the game is not enough for victory. They must also put in their souls. The team that gives up to the game all its strengths and puts into it its mind and soul cannot leave the court defeated.

  Viacheslav Platonov

  Volleyball, Giving Up, Team

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• Do to us what you will, and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and as difficult as it is, we will still love you. But we assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves, we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Encouragement, Children, Love You

  Methodist Student Leadership Conference Address, delivered 1964, Lincoln, Nebraska

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• Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. The struggle for equality continues unabated, and the woman warrior who is armed with wit and courage will be among the first to celebrate victory.

  Maya Angelou

  Witty, Struggle, Warrior

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.6, Bantam

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• The Jew always lives from the blood of other peoples, he needs such murders and such sacrifices. The victory will be only entirely and finally achieved when the whole world is free of Jews.

  Julius Streicher

  Sacrifice, Blood, History

  "The Trial of the Germans" by Eugene Davidson, (p. 57), 1997.

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• Our success has not been a continual series of victories. We have had a number of devastating setbacks; how these are handled is the making of a great team... winning does not happen in straight lines.

  Clive Woodward

  Sports, Team, Winning

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• Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it - you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

  Franco Harris

  Attitude, Atmosphere, Helping

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• Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.

  Sting

  Children, Blow, Winning

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• There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

  Vash Young

  Self, Goal, Achievement

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• This day relenting God
  Hath placed within my hand
  A wondrous thing; and God
  Be praised. At His command,
  Seeking His secret deeds
  With tears and toiling breath,
  I find thy cunning seeds,
  O million-murdering Death.
  I know this little thing
  A myriad men will save.
  O Death, where is thy sting?
  Thy victory, O Grave?
  Poem he wrote following the discovery that the malaria parasite was carried by the amopheline mosquito.

  Ronald Ross

  God, Men, Discovery

  Philosophies (1910) "In Exile" pt. 7 (describing his part in discovering the life-cycle of the malaria parasite in 1897; cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 77:1)

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• To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.

  Neal Ascherson

  Giving, Defeat, Defeated

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• Being humble doesn't mean you lose; it means you have won. Give the victory to others.

  Tsem Tulku

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Humble

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• If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Fighting

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.24, Lulu.com

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• The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand. Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat: how much more no calculation at all! It is by attention to this point that I can foresee who is likely to win or lose.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

  Lionel Giles', Sun Tzu (1910). “Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers”, p.7, SJ Creations Tokyo

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• Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

  Lionel Giles', Sun Tzu (1910). “Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers”, p.12, SJ Creations Tokyo

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• Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing. Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby succeed in winning, may be called a heaven-born captain.

  Sun Tzu

  Running, Art, Military

  Sun Tzu (2017). “El Arte de la Guerra – The Art of War (Sun Tzu)”, p.51, PLUTÓN EDICIONES X SL

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• If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory. If we know that the enemy is open to attack, but are unaware that our own men are not in a condition to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory. If we know that the enemy is open to attack, and also know that our men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the nature of the ground makes fighting impracticable, we have still gone only halfway towards victory.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

  Sun Tzu, Sunzi (2007). “Sun-Tzu on the Art of War: The Oldest Military Treatise in the World (Sunzi for Language Learners, Volume 1)”, p.112, Lulu.com

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• Sometimes it has been of great moment while the fight is going on, to disseminate words that pronounce the enemies' captain to be dead, or to have been conquered by another part of the army. Many times this has given victory to him who used it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Fighting

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• And above all you ought to guard against leading an army to fight which is afraid or which is not confident of victory. For the greatest sign of an impending loss is when one does not believe one can win.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Believe

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• Recognize your victories.

  Joan Benoit

  Running, Inspirational Running

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• I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

  Jesse Owens

  Running, Athlete, Long Ago

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

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• Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Games, Gold

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• With almost no time to decide, they [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the capitol from attack. They saved God knows how many lives. They saved the terrorists from claiming the symbolic victory of smashing the center of American government. And they did it as citizens. They allowed us to survive as a country that could fight terror and still maintain liberty and still welcome people from all over the world from every religion and race and culture as long as they shared our values, because ­ordinary people given no time at all to decide did the right thing.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Powerful, Fighting

  William J. "Bill" Clinton's Flight 93 memorial dedication speech, www.newsbusters.org. September 10, 2011.

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• Victory always starts in the head. It's a state of mind. It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmations that destiny can do nothing but obey.

  Douchan Gersi

  Motivational, Inspiration, Destiny

  Douchan Gersi (1987). “Explorer”, Tarcher

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• Forgiveness doesn't mean that what that person did was right or that you even have to get back into a relationship with that person. Forgiveness simply releases the debt they owe you so that God can release the debt you owe Him. Ask the Lord to search your heart and show you if there is any unforgiveness blocking His blessing in your life. Ask Him to show you more about this gift of forgiveness so that you can walk in the freedom and victory He has for you today.

  Joel Osteen

  Forgiveness, Block, Heart

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