Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lois McMaster Bujold

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

Livy

You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory.

Lucy Stone

Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

Mahatma Gandhi

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?

Mahatma Gandhi

The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory

Mahatma Gandhi

I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

John Dryden

Even victors are by victories undone.

John Dryden

He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.

Joel Osteen

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Joel Osteen

we can not prepare for defeat and expect to live a life in Victory.

Joel Osteen

God has destined you to soar. You have victory, freedom and excellence on the inside.

Joel Osteen

When things gets difficult, and it seems like the intensity has been turned up, that’s a sign you are close to your victory.

Joel Osteen

You can't talk defeat and expect to have victory. You can't talk lack and expect to have abundance. You've got to send your words out in the direction you want your life to go.

Jody Williams

This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security of the entire world without being a superpower.

T. D. Jakes

You cannot have victory without conflict.

Thomas Jefferson

In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.

Richard P. Feynman

Victory usually goes to those green enough to underestimate the monumental hurdles they are facing.

Victor Davis Hanson

Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant to pursue it. But victory has not become an ossified concept altogether.

Victor Hugo

It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

Thomas Browne

Yes, even amongst wiser militants, how many wounds have been given, and credits slain, for the poor victory of an opinion, or beggarly conquest of a distinction.

Robert Payne

It is precisely when we help one another that we gain our victories over corruption, but the victory is assured only when we help one another with all our strength.

Steve Prefontaine

Nobody likes tainted victories.

Stephen Dunn

All good poems are victories over something.

Stephen Covey

Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.

Stephen Covey

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Stephen Covey

Internal victories precede external victories.

Sophie Swetchine

I love victory, but I love not triumph.

Thomas Carlyle

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

Thomas Carlyle

The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!

Pierre Corneille

Your arm is unvanquished, but not invincible.

Philippa Gregory

The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.