A Quote by Ralph Washington Sockman

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

Ralph Washington Sockman

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Be Careful Careful Carry Defeats Future Seed Victories

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Ralph Washington Sockman
American - Writer
October 1, 1889 - August 29, 1970

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

Bertolt Brecht

I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.

Fedor Emelianenko

I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism.

Orhan Pamuk

I am a series of small victories and large defeats.

Charles Bukowski

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Michel de Montaigne

You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.

Matthew Thomas

Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.

Che Guevara

They [anarchists] spring from a single seed, no matter the flowering of their ideas. The seed is liberty. And that is all it is. It is not a socialist seed. It is not a capitalist seed. It is not a mystical seed. It is not a determinist seed. It is simply a statement. We can be free. After that it’s all choice and chance.

Karl Hess

Let me not be so vain to think that I'm the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats.

Ze Frank

In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.

Napoleon Bonaparte

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

Emile M. Cioran

Your words, your schedule, your choices, your obedience, the way you savor your victories and the way you swallow your defeats all help to define your life. It is this definition that your children rely on most as they seek to chart their own future.