Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerald R. Ford

A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.

Hunter S. Thompson

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

Horace

In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

Enzo Ferrari

The mostimportant victory is the one which has to arrive.

Ira Glasser

Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again.

Jack Nicklaus

Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.

J. C. Ryle

The resurrection of Christ is one of the foundation stones of Christianity. It was the seal of the great work that He came on earth to do. It was the crowning proof that the ransom He paid for sinners was accepted, the atonement for sin accomplished, the head of him who had the power of death bruised, and the victory won.

Indira Gandhi

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

It's a victory marred by some unsavoury performances,

It's a big victory. One of the biggest.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

Louis XIV

Impatience for victory guarantees defeat

John Gay

No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.

Ovid

This victory will be your I ruin.

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.

Philip Schaff

Without His Resurrection the death of Christ would be of no avail, and His grave would be the grave of all our hopes. A gospel of a dead Savior would be a miserable failure and delusion. The Resurrection is the victory of righteousness and life over sin an death.

Pope Francis

The presence of the devil is on the first page of the Bible, and the Bible ends as well with the presence of the devil, with the victory of God over the devil.

Paulo Coelho

In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.

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.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

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.

Karel Capek

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

Joyce Meyer

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word.

Joyce Meyer

No matter what's going on in our lives, the victory is in refusing to quit.

Joseph Conrad

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmostphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary.