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Victory belongs to the most persevering.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Related topics: Motivational
History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
- Napoleon Bonaparte
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman
Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment,
full effort is full victory.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
Deserve Victory.
- Terry Goodkind
Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort.
Full effort is full victory.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha
Life always rides in strength to victory,
not through internationalism...
but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory.
It can no longer serve to settle disputes...
can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
- John F. Kennedy
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror,
victory however long and hard the road may be;
for without victory, there is no survival.
- Winston Churchill
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets,
but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
- Abraham Lincoln
The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu
There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you seek truth, you will not seek
victory by dishonorable means,
and if you find truth, you will become invincible.
- Epictetus
Victory has a thousand fathers,
but defeat is an orphan.
- John F. Kennedy
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou 
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability.
One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking
In matters of truth and justice,
there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.
There is an almost universal quest
for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens,
you can never regain their respect and esteem.
It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time;
you can even fool some of the people all of the time;
but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
- Abraham Lincoln
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Affirmation:
All people are my heart-felt brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What usually happens in the educational process is
that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed
and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature
they have lost their innate capabilities.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman
We should not let our response to
the people who disagree with us
be dictated by what they say about us
or even how they treat people we care for.
There has to be a chance that we can find love.
- William J. Clinton
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