#victories

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel. ↗

— Golda Meir

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Even victors are by victories undone. ↗

— John Dryden

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People see defeat on trials I have lost, all I see is the steps that have brought me to a higher place. ↗

— Martin Suarez

#defeat #higher-self #victories #courage

Only God can take our failures and turn them into victories. ↗

— Evinda Lepins

#god #life-quotes #victories #life

Just as long as something is gained, a lesson is learned. I do like those. The more quiet victories are always great. ↗

— Jon Heder

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My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories. ↗

— Bjorn Borg

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While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team's victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent. ↗

— Diego Maradona

#celebrate #coach #doing #entitled #manner

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#chains #knows #laurels #liberty #nothing

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

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