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Only God can take our failures and turn them into victories.Evinda Lepins
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The light of the Kingdom of God remains the strongest weapon for you to fight with in order to have a continuous victory over the enemies.Sunday Adelaja
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Young people today are deeply passionate and crave authentic life based on truth. They're hungry to make a difference. They're willing to take a stand for whatever they believe, even to die for a cause. When they sell out to Jesus, they'll pursue a standard of righteousness that is greater than anything you and I ever saw growing up. Don't water it down. Don't lower the standard. And don't just settle for raising it-raise it higher. Believe in your children. Talk with them. Speak well of them. Encourage them. Pray for them. Celebrate the victories with them. Affirm their growth. We can raise a generation that, although they'll make mistakes, will sell out completely when Jesus grips them. They'll give Him everything. They'll make you proud by being even weirder than you are.Craig Groeschel
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Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothingKiersten White
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This is Roshana, the last queen of the Amulen Empire, back when my people ruled all the lands from the east to the west. She is something of a legend among us. Every queen aspires to learn from her mistakes.”“ Her mistakes? Surely you mean her victories.”“ What?” I frown at her. “Roshana was one of the greatest queens in the world. She ended the Mountain Wars, she routed Sanhezriyah the Mad, she–”“ For a foreign serving girl, you are strangely well versed in Amulen history.”“ I spent a lot of time in libraries as a girl.”“ Were you there to dust the scrolls or read them?”“ Surely Roshana’s victories outweigh her errors.”“ The higher you rise, the farther you fall. For all her wisdom, Roshana was fooled by the jinni, believing it was her friend, and then it destroyed her. Ever since that day, my people have hunted the jinn. There is no creature more vicious and untrustworthy.”“ This is not the story I heard, ” I say softly. “My people tell it differently. That the jinni truly was a friend to Roshana but was forced to turn against her. That she had no choice.”“ Surely I know how my own ancestress died, ” returns the princess, a bit hotly. “Anyway, it was a long time ago, but we Amulens do not forget.Jessica Khoury
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Even while in the midst of failures, focus on your future victories.Unknown
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Whatever begun with planning, ends in a victory.Amit Kalantri
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George put his hand on top of Beatrice's and felt the warmth of both the woman and her hound pulsing through his fingers. "Just because your father does not see your victory does not mean that it is none, " he said softly.Mette Ivie Harrison
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The challenge is never based on the size of the obstacle that stands before me. Rather, it is dictated by the degree of faith that rests within me.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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A word of advice, my sweet Emmett - mourn the losses because they are many. But celebrate the victories because they are few.Debbie Novotny
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Sacrifices will make you a martyr, victories will make you a hero.Amit Kalantri
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Jesus Christ shed His blood so we could have a life filled with victoriesSunday Adelaja
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When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.Rainer Maria Rilke
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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.Alain De Botton
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Advanced weaponry, victories in battle and space travel do not an advanced species or civilization make.Christina Engela
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Roland glares at Connor and Connor glares back. Then he says what he always says at moments like this." Nice socks." Although Roland doesn't look down right away, it derails him just enough for him to back off. He doesn't check to see if his socks match until he thinks Connor isn't looking. And the moment he does, Connor snickers. Small victories are betÂter than none.Neal Shusterman
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Some victories didn't taste as sweet as they shouldMorgan Rhodes
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Peace is possible for dead bodies, living bodies can not expect peace on the way to the victory.Amit Kalantri
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The case which I reported on September 26, 1901, was really the last which occurred in Havana. Of course we did not know it at the time, but this case marked the first conquest of yellow fever in an endemic center; the first application of the mosquito theory to practical sanitary work in any disease.William Crawford Gorgas
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Some days making it to the end of the day is quite the victory. -- BeaJennifer Brown
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But the fruit that can fall without shaking indeed is too mellow for me.Unknown
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In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhap-piness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?Leslie Caron
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There is no victory without pain.Lolita Lebron
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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.Golda Meir
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Excellence costs a great deal.May Sarton
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Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.Thomas Fuller
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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity till he has tasted adversity.Sa'di
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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.German Proverb
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.Malcolm Forbes
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No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.Anonymous
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He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.Charles Caleb Colton
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Sleep riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.Jean Paul Fichter
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If there were no tribulation there would be no rest if there were no winter there would be no summer.Saint John Chrysostom
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I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life and not too long to be downed by them.John Mason Brown
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If your house is on fire warm yourself by it.Spanish Proverb
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A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying "long-time-no-see." If he hadn't broken your heart you couldn't have that glorious feeling of relief!Phyllis Battelle
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Anything other than death is a minor injury.Bill Muncey
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The most valuable gift I ever received was the gift of insecurity my father left us. My mother's love might not have prepared me for life the way my father's departure did. He forced us out on the road where we had to earn our bread.Lillian Gish
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Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.Dorothea Lange
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When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.John F. Kennedy
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From a fallen tree make kindling.Spanish Proverb
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.Joseph Addison
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The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.Pierre De Beaumarchais
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Other Definitions of Adversity Adversity is the touchstone of virtue.Anonymous
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Adversity is the first path to truth.Lord Byron
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Glee! The great storm is over!Emily Dickinson
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Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.Bernie S. Siegel
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To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.Marie Bashkirtseff
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Our way is not soft grass it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards forward toward the sun.Dr. Ruth Westheimer
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Until you've lost your reputation you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.Margaret Mitchell
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Failure is in a sense the highway to success inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true and very fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.John Keats
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Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it.Helen Keller
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It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement convinced that their cause is lost it is only then that cause triumphs.Madame Guizot
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When you can't remember why you're hurt that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain and you can't quite get there that's when you're better.Jane Fonda
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Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender that is strength.Arnold Schwarzenegger
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I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down.Michel De Montaigne
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Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold comfortless unfriendly to man and to animal yet from that season have their birth the flower the fruit the date the rose and the pomegranate.Sir Walter Scott
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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.Reinhold Niebuhr
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The virtue of adversity is fortitude which in mortals is the heroical virtue.Francis Bacon
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To turn an obstacle to one's advantage is a great step towards victory.French Proverb
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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men ... crisis shows us what we have become.Bishop Westcott
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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.Kin Hubbard
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.George Eliot