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Letter "V" » victories
«There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.»
«The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom»
Author: Bertolt Brecht
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«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.»
«The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is never woven.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
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«The ''Inside-Out'' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self / with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.»
Author: Stephen R. Covey
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«The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that gives us our own small satisfactions.»
Author: Billy Joel
(Pianist, Singer, Song Writer)
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«There are many victories worse than a defeat.»
«There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.»
«Private victories precede public victories.»
«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»
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