Victories Quotes

The virtue of adversity is fortitude which in mortals is the heroical virtue.

When you can't remember why you're hurt that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain and you can't quite get there that's when you're better.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhap-piness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Advanced weaponry, victories in battle and space travel do not an advanced species or civilization make.

The most valuable gift I ever received was the gift of insecurity my father left us. My mother's love might not have prepared me for life the way my father's departure did. He forced us out on the road where we had to earn our bread.

The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it.

No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.

Failure is in a sense the highway to success inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true and very fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.

Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.

There could be no honor in a sure success but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

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

It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement convinced that their cause is lost it is only then that cause triumphs.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Our way is not soft grass it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards forward toward the sun.

The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value.

Jesus Christ shed His blood so we could have a life filled with victories

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life and not too long to be downed by them.

Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold comfortless unfriendly to man and to animal yet from that season have their birth the flower the fruit the date the rose and the pomegranate.

To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.

Other Definitions of Adversity Adversity is the touchstone of virtue.

Some victories didn't taste as sweet as they should

The light of the Kingdom of God remains the strongest weapon for you to fight with in order to have a continuous victory over the enemies.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men ... crisis shows us what we have become.

This is Roshana, the last queen of the Amulen Empire, back when my people ruled all the lands from the east to the west. She is something of a legend among us. Every queen aspires to learn from her mistakes.”“Her mistakes? Surely you mean her victories.”“What?”I frown at her. “Roshana was one of the greatest queens in the world. She ended the Mountain Wars, she routed Sanhezriyah the Mad, she—”“For a foreign serving girl, you are strangely well versed in Amulen history.”“I spent a lot of time in libraries as a girl.”“Were you there to dust the scrolls or read them?”“Surely Roshana’s victories outweigh her errors.”“The higher you rise, the farther you fall. For all her wisdom, Roshana was fooled by the jinni, believing it was her friend, and then it destroyed her. Ever since that day, my people have hunted the jinn. There is no creature more vicious and untrustworthy.”“This is not the story I heard,” I say softly. “My people tell it differently. That the jinni truly was a friend to Roshana but was forced to turn against her. That she had no choice.”“Surely I know how my own ancestress died,” returns the princess, a bit hotly. “Anyway, it was a long time ago, but we Amulens do not forget.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity till he has tasted adversity.

Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.

Roland glares at Connor and Connor glares back. Then he says what he always says at moments like this."Nice socks."Although Roland doesn't look down right away, it derails him just enough for him to back off. He doesn't check to see if his socks match until he thinks Connor isn't looking. And the moment he does, Connor snickers. Small victories are bet­ter than none.

The challenge is never based on the size of the obstacle that stands before me. Rather, it is dictated by the degree of faith that rests within me.

If there were no tribulation there would be no rest if there were no winter there would be no summer.

Excellence costs a great deal.

There is no victory without pain.

Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it.

George put his hand on top of Beatrice's and felt the warmth of both the woman and her hound pulsing through his fingers. "Just because your father does not see your victory does not mean that it is none," he said softly.

When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying "long-time-no-see." If he hadn't broken your heart you couldn't have that glorious feeling of relief!

The case which I reported on September 26, 1901, was really the last which occurred in Havana. Of course we did not know it at the time, but this case marked the first conquest of yellow fever in an endemic center; the first application of the mosquito theory to practical sanitary work in any disease.

Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing

To turn an obstacle to one's advantage is a great step towards victory.

If your house is on fire warm yourself by it.

From a fallen tree make kindling.

Sleep riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down.

Young people today are deeply passionate and crave authentic life based on truth. They're hungry to make a difference. They're willing to take a stand for whatever they believe, even to die for a cause. When they sell out to Jesus, they'll pursue a standard of righteousness that is greater than anything you and I ever saw growing up. Don't water it down. Don't lower the standard. And don't just settle for raising it-raise it higher. Believe in your children. Talk with them. Speak well of them. Encourage them. Pray for them. Celebrate the victories with them. Affirm their growth. We can raise a generation that, although they'll make mistakes, will sell out completely when Jesus grips them. They'll give Him everything. They'll make you proud by being even weirder than you are.

Whatever begun with planning, ends in a victory.

The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender that is strength.

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

Some days making it to the end of the day is quite the victory. -- Bea

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron.

Sacrifices will make you a martyr, victories will make you a hero.

Glee! The great storm is over!

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking indeed is too mellow for me.

Until you've lost your reputation you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.