“Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public.” PresidentTermBuildingVictoryCampaignsThanksBarackGuaranteesBoresBehalfConsensusHeadacheMandates Author:Ron Fournier
“Remember the importance of small actions. They're the building blocks in the architecture of your life, the quiet victories you win for yourself each day.” ActionRememberWinningBuildingVictoryQuietImportanceArchitectureBlockEach DayBuilding BlocksSmall Actions Author:Diane Dreher
“The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights.” MenMayAbilityIssuesGreaterRightsSecurityStudentsBuildingVictoryMetsDemandExcellenceUniversityAdministrationFilesDeanRifles Author:Richard M. Nixon
“One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South, for a soundcurrency, etc., etc., but I never forgot my party.... I knew that all good measures would suffer if my Administration was followed by the defeat of my party. Result, a great victory in 1880. Executive and legislature both completely Republican.” IfsPoliticalSufferingResultsPartyBuildingVictoryRepublicanSouthDefeatAdministrationReformEtcExecutivesPolitical PartiesPublic LifeLegislatureBuilding UpGreat VictoryCivil Service Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“No test... no testimony. You can not make lemonade with sugar alone... you must have some sour lemons. You can not learn good horsemanship by riding a tame horse. The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory. Regardless of what happens to you, never say you are having a bad day... say you are having a character building day. All the things that you are going through are building your character. You are being shaped and designed for your greatness. You have something special! You have GREATNESS within you!” CharacterHappensSpecialGreatnessBuildingVictoryBattleTestsHorseHarderSugarRidingWithin YouCan NotEncouragingTestimonyBad DayCharacter BuildingSourLemonsSomething SpecialLemonadeHaving A Bad DayGood HorseSpecial YouHorsemanshipMake LemonadeGreatness Within Author:Les Brown
“My 40 years in the foreign service and the careers of many of my friends became associated with the fall of the Soviet Empire and the putting in order of what came after - the building of a Europe whole, free, and at peace. It`s hard to recall today how improbable victory in the Cold War appeared.” YearsWarHardWholeTodayOrderFallCareersBuildingColdVictoryMy FriendsEuropeEmpiresSovietRecallsCold WarImprobableForeign Service Author:Daniel Fried
“If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of all moral reflections, than to be at the expence of building navies, filling them with men, and then hauling them into the ocean, to try which can sink each other fastester. Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infintely more advantage than any victory with all its expence. But this, though it best answers the purpose of Nations, does not that of Court Governments, whose habited policy is pretence for taxation, places, and offices.” IfsThinkingMenTryingDoeGovernmentPurposeNationsAnswersMoralPolicyBuildingOughtVictoryCostOfficeOceanReflectionAdvantageCourtRidiculousRationalAbsurdPermitTaxationFillingNavyExclusivePretence Author:Thomas Paine
“Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken, in building their kingdoms; but God is the God of the unsuccessful, of those who have failed. Heaven is filling with earth's broken lives, and there is no bruised reed that Christ cannot take and restore to glorious blessedness and beauty. He can take the life crushed by pain or sorrow and make it into a harp whose music shall be all praise. He can lift earth's saddest failure up to heaven's glory.” MenWantInspirationalGodEarthPainJesusStrongHeavenChristSuccessfulStrengthBuildingFailureBrokenVictorySorrowGloryPraiseChristian InspirationalKingdomsLiftsGloriousFillingCrushedRestorationBrokennessSaddestUnbrokenReedsUnsuccessfulHarpsBruisedBlessednessPain And SorrowBroken Things Author:J.R. Miller
“Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. It enslaves him almost before he has tasted freedom. The 'ologies' will tell you how its done Theology calls it building a conscience or developing a spirit of selflessness. Psychology calls it the growth of the superego. Considering how long society has been at it, you'd expect a better job. But the campaigns have been badly planned and the victory has never been secured.” LongHas BeensDoneJobsSpiritIndividualGrowthPsychologyBuildingVictoryConscienceCampaignsTheologyDevelopingHelplessConsideringSelflessnessSecuredBetter JobsSuperego Author:B. F. Skinner
“To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.” MenWorldFeelsSeemsResponsibilityBuildingPrideVictoryStonesSightResponsibleShameMiserySettingSettingsBe A ManBeing ResponsibleContributingComrade Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve.” EconomyAchieveBuildingVictoryOptimismElectionBarackCongratulationsGreat Victory Author:Ed Miliband
“The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my credo in all that I do in life from battling cancer to bicycle racing.” MotivationalSuccessMotivationAcceptingBuildingVictorySucceedFundamentalsCancerBlockRacingFuryBicycleBuilding BlocksCredo Author:Lance Armstrong
“Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.” PeopleBelieveActionHouseBuildingVictoryBuiltStonesDefeatBoredomSweatParticipantsFutilityWearinessPuffBustleIncoherence Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery