#victory

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#abandoned #cannot #defeat #either #end

We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory. ↗

— J. D. Hayworth

#know #national #our #outcome #over

When running to fill a time quota, however, the reverse happens. You can't make that time pass any faster by rushing, so you settle into a pace that feels right to you at the moment. Each minute above a quota is a little victory. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#any #each #faster #feels #fill

My winning is getting to perform. That's my victory. ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#perform #victory #winning

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#enemy #fight #victory

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#half #prepared #victory

To be prepared is half the victory. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#half #prepared #victory

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#coincide #enemy #minds #most #people

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

#been #come #deathbed #decision #had

I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing. ↗

— Joan Didion

#except #first #i #just #makes