#victories

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy. ↗

— Mark Helprin

#away #breaks #floor #hit #human

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#many #monuments #peace #than #unveil

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories. ↗

— Polybius

#know #make #more #much #numerous

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories. ↗

— Plato

#first #himself #man #noblest #victories

I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order. ↗

— Will Arnett

#first #full #got #gotta #greatest

When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#better #could #hoped #i #just

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#enemy #know #self #thousand #thy

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#difficulties #must #pay #price #struggles

There are many victories worse than a defeat. ↗

— George Eliot

#many #than #victories #worse

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security. ↗

— James Buchan

#bloody #bombers #both #brutal #chance