Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Victory
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The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.
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Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.
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Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.
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No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.
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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.
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Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
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Wherever work is done, victory is attained.
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We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.
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Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.
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Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.
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Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.
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The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.
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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?
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