Found 67 quotes starting with VI:

Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. – Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. – Sun-tzu
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first then seek to win. – Sun Tzu
VICTORY - Champions have it deep inside of them - a dream, a desire, a vision. They have the last minute stamina. They have to be a little faster. They have to have the will and the skill. But the will must be greater than the skill. – Muhhammad Ali
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. – Mahatma Gandhi
Victory belongs to the most persevering. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. – Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower
Victory has a thousand fathers; defeat is an orphan. – John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]., p289. Comment made by JFK in the aftermath of the fai
Victory is a good wine; defeat is a good university! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Victory is a political fiction. – Anonymous
Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time. – Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
View the problem as an opportunity to grow. – J. Willard Marriott
Viewed as a whole, a forest radiates beauty, serenity and safety. Viewed from within, misplaced focus reaps the fabricated chaos of trees. – Richard Guerry
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. – Johann von Goethe
Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him – Clark Mousakas
Vigilance helps grow a person character – Sabata Stoffel Mosehle
Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon.N.B. Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire. – Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve
Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment. – Lord Newborough
Vigorous writing is concise. – William Jr. Strunk
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. – William Strunk Jr., Elements of Style
Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there. – Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Village is an idea; universe is an idea! If you cannot create an idea bigger than your village you live in, you remain inside your village; if we cannot create an idea greater than this universe, we remain inside this universe – Mehmet Murat ildan
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. – Ellen Glasgow
Violence is the diplomacy of the incompetent. – Isaac Asimov, Prelude to Foundation, said by Hari Seldon
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. – Isaac Asimov
Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a ‘civilised,’ man must be peaceable! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field. – John Gregory Dunne, Nothing Lost
Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way. – Julius K. Nyerere
Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline. – Richard Milhous Nixon
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms. – Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
Vipassana meditation is not just seeing the things inside. It is also seeing the seer. – Amit Ray
Virginity is in the lies of the beholder. – The Clown Prince of Darkness
Virtual Reality is like mainlining television. – William Gibson
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter. – William Shakespeare
Virtue beameth from a generous spirit as light from the moon, or as brilliancy from Jupiter. – Nizami
Virtue can only flourish among equals. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice only the willingness to make it when necessary. – Frederick Sherwood Dunn
Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue. – Socrates
Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure. – Marcus Valerius Martialis
Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure. – Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams
Virtue has its own reward, but no box office. – Mae West
Virtue has never been as respectable as money. – Mark Twain
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. – Silius Italicus
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Virtue is indeed its own reward. – Claudianus
Virtue is insufficient temptation. – George Bernard Shaw
Virtue is its own punishment. – Aneurin Bevan
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. – Sir John Vanbrugh
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue. – Confucius
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. – Confucius
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. – G. K. Chesterton
Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm. – Denis Diderot
Virtue lies in the middle ground. – Dr. Jose P. Rizal
Virtue they will but abuse, and taunt her with bitter revilling. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Book Eleven
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. – Siddha Nagarjuna
Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well-meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on. – Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re-armament
Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. – Robert Collier
Vision looks inward and becomes duty.Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.Vision looks upward and becomes faith. – Stephen S. Wise
Vision without a task is only a dream. A task without a vision is but drudgery. But vision with a task is a dream fulfilled. – Willie Stone
Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare. – Japanese Proverb
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. – Japanese Proverb
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. – Joel Barker
Visit the graveyards sometimes and read the headstone epitaphs! There is much to learn from the dark face of the life! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Visit the port of goodness often; if you can, cast your anchor over there! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. – Portuguese Proverb
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. – F Scott
Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live) – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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