Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory. – Joel Osteen
The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants. – Herman Gorter
There is no God-given right to victory on the battlefield. You win that through the skill and the devotion, the valor and the ferocity of your troops. – James Mattis
Whether it’s pool or Ping Pong, I can’t stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That’s fine. I’d rather have that than let them win a shallow victory. – Jack Nicklaus
My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it. – Jacques Delors
My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear. – James Longstreet
I’m sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory. – J. B. Smoove
The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnational network of terrorists who have tried to prevent this day from happening. – Jim Talent
Ultimately, if you look at the game and there are two minutes left, and you have to ensure your victory, you don’t want to throw the damn football. You want a runner who can run the clock out. – Jim Brown
Tiger Woods did not always win majors with ease; after his narrow victory in the 1999 PGA, he slumped and sighed as if he’d been carrying rocks uphill all afternoon. – John Updike
Is victory sweet because your side wins – or is it really because the other side loses? – John Podhoretz
The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory. – Jonathan Kozol
Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self. – John Bytheway
The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder. – Ida B. Wells
When people come and see my show, I try to infuse into them that they can walk away feeling like their lives are a victory. – Ben Vereen
Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts. – Aeschylus
Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world? – Alexander the Great
I count it as a major victory to not only be on a series that’s had a full season run, but to actually be on one that’s gotten picked up for a second season. – Benjamin Bratt
So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations. – Adam Schiff
Somebody ask me, ‘Alberto, why you not race in Torino?’ I finished my career here in 1998, the 15 of March which was my last victory. – Alberto Tomba
I think that it’s perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don’t want defeat. We don’t want defeat in sport. We don’t want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What’s going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be? – Bobby Knight
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. – Buddha
One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential. – Bradley Whitford
