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Victory
2007/09/24,11:38

I love the game of cricket. In my childhood days, I was an ardent fan, who would run along with fellow friends to the ground with the ball and the bat even during the 15 minute breaks in a day, leave alone an elaborate 45 minute lunch break.

Whenever I played, I wanted deperately to win. I was a bowler most of the times and I would imagine that I were the fastest bowler in the world. While some of my friends accepted the sheer pace in deliveries, some pointed that I lack "planned" variety of deliveries though my keenness to simply bowl at a maximum pace itself resulted in a variety of deliveries - unplanned varities though - some of them going to the near by ground - several feets away from the target, into no man's land!

Anyways, after this 'Swim' session in my memory land ( or water , perhaps!) , I thought of the term victory and was keen to find out some quotes regarding the same. Here you go!

“The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is of all things most shameful and vile.” - Plato

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing. - William Shakespeare


I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self - Aristotle

Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.  - Basil King

Thanks to Plato,Shakespeare,Aristotle and Basil King for these wonderful reflections.Thanks to www.thinkexist.com for the first, www.quotations.about.com for the second and www.motivational-inspirational-corner.com for the online version of the rest of the quotes.

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