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"Look for small victories and build on that. Each small victory, even if it is just getting up five minutes earlier, gives you confidence. You realize that these little victories make you feel great, and you keep going. You realize that being paralyzed by fear of failure is worse than failure."
"Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance."
"Although deceit is detestable in all other things, yet in the conduct of war it is laudable and honorable; and a commander who vanquishes an enemy by stratagem is equally praised with one who gains victory by force."
"Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue."
"When we face problems or disagreements today, we have to arrive at solutions through dialogue. Dialogue is the only appropriate method. One-sided victory is no longer acceptable. We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always keep in mind the interests of others."
"But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life"
"There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms."
"The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of."
"Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat."
"Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy; forceful execution of even a poor plan can often bring victory."
"Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory."
"We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory."
"Be willing to dance the victory dance as if your greatest dreams are realized, and watch how easily things fall into place."
"But to those who kept saying "It can't be done," Never are the victories Or the honors won. But, rather, By the believing, doing kind, While the doubters Watched from far behind."
"Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave."
"Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!"
"If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will."
"Internal victories precede external victories."
"So a military force has no constant formation, water has no constant shape: the ability to gain victory by changing and adapting according to the opponent is called genius."
"Full effort is full victory."
