Victory Quotes - Page 32

One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory of evil is not certain.

We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.

Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public.

And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win. "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he, "But 'twas a famous victory."

Have you ever sabotaged yourself? Ever come close to victory only to slide back into the jaws of defeat? When you are fighting yourself, you can't win.

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer

The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.

Remember this: with mind you will always be a loser. Even if you are victorious, your victories will be just defeats. With mind there is no victory, with no-mind there is no defeat. You have to shift your whole consciousness from mind to no-mind. Once no-mind is there, everything is victorious. Once the no-mind is there, nothing goes wrong, nothing can go wrong.

To live moment to moment is the life of meditation. Then life becomes spontaneous without any effort; then nobody can make you miserable, nobody can disappoint you, nobody can make you a failure because in the first place you were not trying to be a success; you were not asking the future to be in a certain way. So whatever happens, the next moment you can rejoice. It is always your victory.

"World War III, was the Cold War".

Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.

If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on reality, the world we know would drown in blazing happiness.

For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make.

The creation of India and Pakistan were pyrrhic victories for their denizens because the political, socioeconomic, psychological, and culture havoc wreaked by that momentous event is reflected in those pogroms, ethnic cleansing, proliferation of nuclear weapons, poverty, and riots that continue to cause seismic tremors in the Indian subcontinent.

A masterful retreat is itself a victory.

"World War III, was the Cold War, and the U.S. won it".

The victory is when I realize that I can't do it on my own.

...there must be a sequence to learning, that perseverance and a certain measure of perspiration are indispensable, that individual pleasures must frequently be submerged in the interests of group cohesion, and that learning to be critical and to think conceptually and rigorously do not come easily to the young but are hard-fought victories.

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

Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

Victory cannot tolerate truth.

When you cleanse yourself of a big victory, you may open yourself up to the opportunity for an even bigger victory