#victories

Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#desperation #fire #full-bodied #honest #over

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#more #some #than #triumphant #victories

I've always learned when you win a game, no matter what the stats look like, you have to enjoy the victories because they are hard to come by. ↗

— Mike Tice

#because #come #enjoy #game #hard

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself. ↗

— Plato

#best #defeat #defeats #each #first

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#bottom #defeats #fellows #top #victories

I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water. ↗

— John Sayles

#america #dead #defeats #feel #final

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#dint #direction #done #give #made

The success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium began, Russia made immediate efforts to counteract by invasion of East Prussia. ↗

— Kelly Miller

#began #belgium #counteract #east #efforts

I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others. ↗

— Jim Cole

#been #defeats #draw #experiences #honest

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