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“Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.”

Firsts Causes Fear Grief Half Enemy Victory Shapes Torment

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit so long as your men have strength to follow; for an army routed, if hotly pursued, becomes panic-stricken, and can then be destroyed by half their number. The other rule is, never fight against heavy odds, if by any possible maneuvering you can hurl your own force on only a part, and that the weakest part, of your enemy and crush it. Such tactics will win every time, and a small army may thus destroy a large one in detail, and repeated victory will make it invincible.”

“I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in a corner of his mouth. He didn't fight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I stared and stared and victory filled up the little rented boat from the pool of bilge where oil had spread a rainbow around the rusted engine to the bailer rusted orange, the sun-cracked thwarts the oarlocks on their strings, the gunnels-until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go.”

Littles Fighting Water Half Sun Victory Mouths Filled Caught Fishes Corners Spread Oil Boat Strings Engines Pool Rainbow Orange Hook Cracked Filled Up

Author:Elizabeth Bishop

“When you do an hour and a half and you destroy, like tonight was great. I had an awesome time. I realized that I'd been up there for about an hour and a half and I realized, "Wow, I'm gonna get out of here without doing Walken." It is a bit of a moral victory.”

Bits Hours Half Moral Victory I Realized Tonight Wow Moral Victory

Author:Jay Mohr

“Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.”

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Author:John Milton

“In the half darkness I winked to my other self, my mad dictator, and congratulated him on his droll victory. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth flowing from Shosha's head to my face. What did I have to lose? Nothing more than what everyone loses anyway.”

Self Eye Faces Felt Loses Half Darkness Victory Mad Warmth Dictator

Book:Shosha

Source: Shosha

“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.”

“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work.”

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Author:Sarah T. Bolton

“Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.”

Half Military Victory Prepared Be Prepared Urban Planning Forewarned

Book:Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha

Source: Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha

“These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with ignorance, indifference, or half-witted hatred, moving the world with the strength of their arms, and getting their heads knocked together in the name of God, the king, or the stock exchange-immortal, dreaming, hopeless asses, who surrender their reason to the care of a shining puppet, and persuade some toy to carry their lives in his purse.”

Source: The Works of Stephen Crane Vol. 5: Tales of Adventure

“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.”

Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story

“I give it as my fixed opinion, that but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to our share; whereas, in less than two campaigns, we conquered a great country and a peace without the loss of a single battle or skirmish.”

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Author:Winfield Scott

“Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive.”

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Book:A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By

Source: A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By

“Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.”

Long Half Victory Please Prepared

Author:Miguel de Cervantes