Quotes About Victory

For me, at least, there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until, by and by, out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result.

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

On the human chessboard, all moves are possible.

The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business that is, where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.

The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business life, where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.

I never lost a game. I just ran out of time.

Nobody roots for Goliath.

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything it's value.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

Difficulties exist to be surmounted.

A man surprised is half beaten.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed.

The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.

I survived. (J'ai vecu.)

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide, as ours has done ..., whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.