Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
Kin Hubbard

Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.
King Hussein I

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.
Jonathan Kozol

Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
Sam Donaldson

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.
Mia Hamm

Thanks to the heroic sons and daughters of this country, who have paid sacrifices, we have been able to score a number of victories which are encouraging the nation-building process we are engaged in.
Girma Woldegiorgis

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.
Jim Costa

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
Bertolt Brecht

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
William J. H. Boetcker

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
Leon Trotsky

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.
Mark Helprin

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium began, Russia made immediate efforts to counteract by invasion of East Prussia.
Kelly Miller

There are many victories worse than a defeat.
George Eliot

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Michel de Montaigne

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
Elie Wiesel

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Plato

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
Polybius

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
Golda Meir

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
Edward Gibbon