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Quotes About Victories

To be a populist conservative is to be a fatalist; to believe in a world where your side will never win; indeed, where your side almost by definition cannot win. Where even the most shattering electoral victories turn out to be hollow, and the liberal stranglehold on life can never be broken.12
~ Thomas Frank
A morbid concentration on one's grievances with life will only make one's problems more severe. Far better to focus on one's successes, to gain confidence from seeing oneself winning out. Then one can forge ahead in life.
~ Og Mandino
As Ender had once said, most victories came from instantly exploiting your enemy's stupid mistakes, and not from any particular brilliance in your own plan.
~ Orson Scott Card
see how God used my powerlessness for His purposes. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.
~ Charles W. Colson
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments t' unveil.
~ Kin Hubbard (1868–1930)
We ate away, reminiscing about our victories over the enemies from different streets and villages and competing with each other in casting curses. A few golden butterflies and dragonflies were fluttering around us. The afternoon air was warm and clean, and the town below us seemed like a green harbor full of white sails.
~ Ha Jin
I must tell you a great truth, Much-Afraid, which only the few understand. All the fairest beauties in the human soul, its greatest victories, and its most splendid achievements are always those which no one else knows anything about, or can only dimly guess at. Every inner response of the human heart to Love and every conquest over self-love is a new flower on the tree of Love.
~ Hannah Hurnard
The search for majorities always results in either greater disfranchisement or wider suffrage, and in this case, leaders reached out to poor white men for their victories.
~ Heather Cox Richardson
I've won some pretty cool things in my life and I have a lot of great titles.
~ Heather O'Reilly
The three decades following the Second World War were prolific breeders of myth. The two great military victories on opposite sides of the globe, followed by unparalleled prosperity at home and world leadership abroad, bred a national euphoria, even hubris in some, capable of the boast that America could do anything: The impossible takes a little longer.
~ James T. Patterson
Life is hell, but there are prizes.
~ Janet Frame
It's been a long road for me, with a lot of ups and downs. Thankfully there have been more ups than there have been downs. For me, what brings me down has only made me stronger because of it.
~ Diego Sanchez
The ups and downs, that's baseball life. That's what I live for, play for.
~ Aaron Judge
Every season is hard, every season has its ups and downs.
~ Beauden Barrett
All campaigns have ebb and flows along the way, right? Ups and downs.
~ Brad Parscale
We know there are a lot of ups and downs to the season.
~ Philip Rivers
I've had so many ups and downs in my career. When it's going good, you learn to enjoy the ride.
~ Ryan Fitzpatrick
There have been a lot of ups and downs.
~ Matt Doherty
Bangladesh, despite producing big upsets in the past, doesn't have the art of beating big teams consistently.
~ Sourav Ganguly
Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains.
~ Marvin J. Ashton
I haven't had the recognition I deserve. You can go back to anybody's career - Ricky Hatton, Joe Calzaghe, David Haye, Amir Khan, Chris Eubank, Nigel Benn, Steve Collins, Naseem Hamed. My record is better than all of theirs. I've won against more unbeaten fighters than any of them, had more exciting fights.
~ Carl Froch
Without doubt, some of the happiest moments of my career have come in a Stoke shirt.
~ Bojan Krkic
Debaltseve were certainly defeats for the Ukrainians, but the fact that it took the rebels and the Russians months to achieve these victories demonstrated two things: first, that the Ukrainians were no longer disorganized and that their military was getting stronger by the day; and secondly, that the rebels and the Russians were reaching the limits of what they could do unless there was a lot more help from Russia.
~ Tim Judah
Daughter, that's life: messy, confusing, heartbreaking, but wonderful. All any of us can do is to try to be ur best, and to learn from our mistakes, as well as our victories
~ P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast