#victor

Some defeats are only installments to victory. ↗

— Jacob Riis

#only #some #victory

Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now. ↗

— Knute Rockne

#even #leading #like #now #play

The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet. ↗

— Damon Runyon

#bet #how #may #nor #race

The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#election #me #party #result #victory

It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy. ↗

— Albert Camus

#vanquish #victory #war #courage

You can’t win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose. ↗

— Jack Campbell

#courage #victory #win #courage

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#faith #spirit #victory #will #courage

Oh! What honour for the female sex! It is perfectly obvious that God has special regard for it when all these wretched people who destroyed the whole Kingdom – now recovered and made safe by a woman, something that 5000 men could not have done – and the traitors [have been] exterminated. Before the event they would scarcely have believed this possible. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#empowerment #feminism #freedom #gender #joan-of-arc

If you're in a life and death struggle, and I handed you a weapon, would you use it? God has handed you the most power weapon: The Name of Jesus. All He requires is that you practice using it. Fire at will! ↗

— Matthew Akers

#death

Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life. ↗

— Pindar

#victory #dreams