Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us.
Tell no lies' claim no easy victories
It's not the victories that count to me. It's the quality of how you deliver your losses and the quality of how you deliver your victories.
Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride.
Therefore the victories of good warriors are not noted for cleverness or bravery. Therefore their victories in battle are not flukes. Their victories are not flukes because they position themselves where they will surely win, prevailing over those wh.
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories. . . The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
Who said it could not be done? And tell me what great victories does he have to his credit which qualifies him to judge what can and can't be accomplished.
Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
Two weeks ago, I was in a fantastic situation, winning at Roland Garros. Now, losing in the first round, it's tough. The tour continues. Life continues. This is a sport of victories, not a sport of losses. Nobody remembers the losses. I don't want to remember the loss.
All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.
A person who cannot handle setbacks will never handle victories either.
Our success has not been a continual series of victories. We have had a number of devastating setbacks; how these are handled is the making of a great team. . . winning does not happen in straight lines.
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried the fight for independence forward a year of all-too-few victories, of sustained suffering, disease, hunger, desertion, cowardice, disillusionment, defeat, terrible discouragement, and fear, as they would never forget, but also of phenomenal courage and bedrock devotion to country, and that, too they would never forget.
Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident. I accepted those victories as I accept this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily.
Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.
Self-Conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself.
It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.
We can bring brilliant flowers of victory to bloom in our lives when we weather the hardships of winter and emerge triumphant based on our practice of the Mystic Law. The key to victories lies in how hard we struggle when we are in winter, how wisely we use this time and how meaningful we live each day confident that spring will definitely come.