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“To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past.”

Believe Has Beens Today Past Faces Victory Evidence Optimist Vietnam War Stalemate

Book:The challenges of change

Source: The challenges of change

“Would you be free from the condemnation of the sins that are past, from the power of the temptations that are to come? Then take your stand on the Rock of Ages. Let death, let the grave, let the judgment come, the victory is Christ's and yours through Him.”

Age Past Christ Sin Rocks Victory Judgment Graves Temptation Condemnation

Book:God's Good News

Source: God's Good News

“It is obvious that the fascist mass pestilence, with its background of thousands of years, cannot be mastered with social measures corresponding to the past three hundred years. The discovery of the natural biological work democracy in international human intercourse is the answer to fascism. This will be no less true even if not one of the living sex-economists, orgone biophysicists or work democrats should live to see its general functioning and its victory over the irrationalism in social life.”

“There is nothing--no circumstance, no trouble, no testing--that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment. But as I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart, no sorrow will ever disturb me, no circumstance will cause me to fret, for I shall rest in the joy of what my Lord is--that is the rest of victory!”

“How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you make it less? Square root, as obdurate as a hardwood stump in a pasturenothing but years of effort can extract it. You can't hurry the process. Or pass from arithmetic to algebra; you can't shoulder your way past quadratic equations or ripple through the binomial theorem. Instead, the other way; your feet are impeded in the tangled growth, your pace slackens, you sink and fall somewhere near the binomial theorem with the calculus in sight on the horizon.”

“Love is friendship that has caught fire. ... Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future, and it doesn't brood over the past. It's the day-in and day-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and working toward common goals. If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.”

Source: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense

“O thou, whose days are yet all spring, Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving; Experience is a dumb, dead thing; The victory's in believing.”

Believe Past Belief Victory Spring Dumb

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.”

People Knows Years Children Real Reason Pain Past Faces Memories Pleasure Clear Childhood Victory Comfort Excuse Unhappy Tales Former Worried No Reason Usual Trusted Happy Memories

Author:Lillian Hellman

“You won't be free from guilt if you are constantly replaying the negative memories of your past. If you're going to replay anything, replay your victories!”

Ifs Past Memories Victory Negative Guilt Positivity Recalls Negativity Our Past Your Past Recollection Replay

Author:Joel Osteen

“The greatest victory anyone can taste is the daily challenge to outrun those fears that you vanquished... days, weeks, months past.”

Motivational Past Challenges Week Months Victory Taste Outrun Greatest Victory Daily Challenges

Author:Francisco Leon

“The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.”

Past Individual Nations Ability Study Victory Foundation Lays Errors Empowering

Author:Aberjhani

“To anybody who can hold the Present at its worth without being inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven, if to such an one the solitary old hulk at Portsmouth, Nelson's Victory, seems to float there, not alone as the decaying monument of a fame incorruptible, but also as a poetic approach, softened by its picturesqueness, to the Monitors and yet mightier hulls of the European ironclads.”

Ifs May Seems Past Victory Fame Approach Nostalgia Poetic Solitary Forgiven Floats Not Alone Monument Nelson Hull Ironclads Portsmouth

Book:Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories

Source: Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories