Quotes about victories

Jessica Khoury - The Forbidden Wish

This is Roshana, the last queen of the Amulen Empire, back when my people ruled all the lands from the east to the west. She is something of a legend among us. Every queen aspires to learn from her mistakes.”“Her mistakes? Surely you mean her victories.”“What?”I frown at her. “Roshana was one of the greatest queens in the world. She ended the Mountain Wars, she routed Sanhezriyah the Mad, she—”“For a foreign serving girl, you are strangely well versed in Amulen history.”“I spent a lot of time in

Kiersten White - And I Darken

Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing

Evinda Lepins -

Only God can take our failures and turn them into victories.

Neal Shusterman - Unwind

Roland glares at Connor and Connor glares back. Then he says what he always says at moments like this."Nice socks."Although Roland doesn't look down right away, it derails him just enough for him to back off. He doesn't check to see if his socks match until he thinks Connor isn't looking. And the moment he does, Connor snickers. Small victories are bet­ter than none.

Morgan Rhodes - Falling Kingdoms

Some victories didn't taste as sweet as they should

Christina Engela - Bugspray

Advanced weaponry, victories in battle and space travel do not an advanced species or civilization make.

Sunday Adelaja -

Jesus Christ shed His blood so we could have a life filled with victories

Alain de Botton -

Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.

Rainer Maria Rilke -

When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.

Henry Ward Beecher -

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

Epicurus -

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -

But the fruit that can fall without shaking indeed is too mellow for me.

Moliere -

The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it.

Thomas Paine -

The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value.

Abraham Lincoln -

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.

Pierre Corneille -

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.

T. E. Lawrence -

There could be no honor in a sure success but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Leslie Caron -

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhap-piness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Oscar Homolka -

To really enjoy the better things in life one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Lolita Lebron -

There is no victory without pain.

Golda Meir -

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

May Sarton -

Excellence costs a great deal.

Abigail Van Buren -

If you want a place in the sun you've got to put up with a few blisters.

Thomas Fuller -

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.

Sa'di -

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity till he has tasted adversity.

German proverb -

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Malcolm Forbes -

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Anonymous -

No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.

Charles Caleb Colton -

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

Jean Paul Fichter -

Sleep riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.

Mary Tyler Moore -

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

Saint John Chrysostom -

If there were no tribulation there would be no rest if there were no winter there would be no summer.

Dolly Parton -

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

Frank Lane -

If you want to see the sun shine you have to weather the storm.

Yiddish proverb -

He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.

John Mason Brown -

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life and not too long to be downed by them.

John Heywood -

If you will call your troubles experiences and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you you will grow vigorous and happy however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

Spanish proverb -

If your house is on fire warm yourself by it.

Phyllis Battelle -

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying "long-time-no-see." If he hadn't broken your heart you couldn't have that glorious feeling of relief!

Bill Muncey -

Anything other than death is a minor injury.

Lillian Gish -

The most valuable gift I ever received was the gift of insecurity my father left us. My mother's love might not have prepared me for life the way my father's departure did. He forced us out on the road where we had to earn our bread.

Dorothea Lange -

Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.

John F. Kennedy -

When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Spanish proverb -

From a fallen tree make kindling.

Joseph Addison -

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

W. Clement Stone -

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

Pierre de Beaumarchais -

The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.

Anonymous -

Other Definitions of Adversity Adversity is the touchstone of virtue.

Lord Byron -

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Emily Dickinson -

Glee! The great storm is over!

Bernie S. Siegel -

Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.

Marie Bashkirtseff -

To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.

Richard Bach -

What the student calls a tragedy the master calls a butterfly.

Dr. Ruth Westheimer -

Our way is not soft grass it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards forward toward the sun.

Margaret Mitchell -

Until you've lost your reputation you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

John Keats -

Failure is in a sense the highway to success inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true and very fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.

Helen Keller -

Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Euripides -

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

E. M. Cioran -

Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.

Madame Guizot -

It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement convinced that their cause is lost it is only then that cause triumphs.

Jane Fonda -

When you can't remember why you're hurt that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain and you can't quite get there that's when you're better.

William Shakespeare -

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

Muriel Rukeyser -

However confused the scene of our life appears however torn we may be who now do face that scene it can be faced and we can go on to be whole.

Horace -

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

Arnold Schwarzenegger -

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender that is strength.

Martin Luther King - Jr.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

G. K. Chesterton -

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Michel de Montaigne -

I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down.

Sir Walter Scott -

Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold comfortless unfriendly to man and to animal yet from that season have their birth the flower the fruit the date the rose and the pomegranate.

Reinhold Niebuhr -

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Francis Bacon -

The virtue of adversity is fortitude which in mortals is the heroical virtue.

French proverb -

To turn an obstacle to one's advantage is a great step towards victory.

Bishop Westcott -

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men ... crisis shows us what we have become.

Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron.

Jennifer Brown - Hate List

Some days making it to the end of the day is quite the victory. -- Bea

George Eliot -

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Michel de Montaigne -

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Kin Hubbard -

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Debbie Novotny -

A word of advice, my sweet Emmett - mourn the losses because they are many. But celebrate the victories because they are few.

Mette Ivie Harrison - The Princess and the Hound

George put his hand on top of Beatrice's and felt the warmth of both the woman and her hound pulsing through his fingers. "Just because your father does not see your victory does not mean that it is none," he said softly.

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