Top 1200 Small Victories Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.

Seemingly small choices and small actions add up over time.

A person who cannot handle setbacks will never handle victories either.

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.

That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.

That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.

If my goals and victories can help the world remember Chernobyl and bring a smile to the face of the people still suffering then I dedicate all my success to them.

Hope is a start. But hope needs action to win victories.

You learn a lot from defeats. As well, you need to learn from victories.

We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves.

There is a belief that getting any particular job may depend on who has just had five consecutive victories. If that's the way it is, I've got a healthy attitude.

Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.

I learned early on that extraordinary challenges lead to extraordinary victories.

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

A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.

Hope is a start. But hope needs action to win victories

Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections.

I don't believe in moral victories. I don't think in pro ball they exist, and they shouldn't exist.

If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,They must in quantity of Matter all agree

Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

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.

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.

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.

I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order.

If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you.

Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again.

I am still hungry; I still hate defeats. There is no substitute for victories.

I have not lost an awful lot in my life, but the defeats have taught me more than the victories. Whenever I lose, I focus on the ability of my opponent and on the mistakes I made.

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

While it may seem small, the ripple effects of small things is extraordinary.

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

I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.

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.

I am a small man who wants to do big things for small people.

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves

Small nations have no time for small goals - they have to think big in order to become contributors.

There are none so low but they have their triumphs. Small successes suffice for small souls.

We need to repeal Dodd-Frank act. It is eviscerating small businesses and small banks.

Now at last I have come to see what life is, Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun, And the brave victories that seem so splendid Are never really won.

The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd

Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.

Loving means being open to miracles, to victories and defeats, to everything that happens each day that was given us to walk upon the face of the Earth.

Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.

Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.

All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.

There is power in creating a small model, and then you can create an alliance of other small models.

All those races, all those victories and losses, it's as if they happened to someone else.

I started on the stage with my mom in Denmark doing political revues in a small, small town.

The dwarves of course are quite obviously, couldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic. Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects (in general) the small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

I don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.

I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.

It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.

I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another.

I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.

Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.