100+ Triumph Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Russell L. Kleinbach, Karl Marx, Alfred North Whitehead (1982). “Marx via process: Whitehead's potential contribution to Marxian social theory”

topic: Perception, Triumph, Negative, Postmodernism, Constructivism

It's so reassuring to have a woman heroine who triumphs with more than just what she has on the outside who has more to offer the world than just a pretty picture.

- America Ferrera

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Triumph, World, Reassuring, Pretty Picture

To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.

- Anais Nin

topic: Suicide, Sacrifice, Triumph

Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.

- Andres Serrano

topic: Artist, Civilization, Triumph

Fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph.

- Andrew Solomon

topic: Triumph, Events, Narrative

You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph, evincing a better self in response to things that hurt.

- Andrew Solomon

source: "How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2014.

topic: Hurt, Self, Triumph

Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.

- Anthony Daniels

topic: Struggle, Triumph, Doe

Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.

- Anthony Daniels

topic: Ideas, Triumph, Fantasy, Bad Ideas

To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.

- Aristophanes

topic: Art, Triumph, Argument

Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper.

- Arthur M. Wellington

topic: Engineering, Bridges, Triumph, Locomotives

I saw that evil was impotentâ€”that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-realâ€”and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Real, Evil, Triumph

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

- B. C. Forbes

topic: Triumph, Defeat, Real Estate Motivational

Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.

- Barry Commoner

topic: Simple, Triumph, Growing

One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Science, Triumph, Modern

There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.

- Beverly Sills

topic: Artist, Careers, Triumph, Trapeze, Trapeze Artists

For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history â€“ perhaps most â€“ it can seem as if the whole impulse of fashion has been to look maximally ridiculous. If one could be maximally uncomfortable as well, the triumph was all the greater.

- Bill Bryson

topic: Fashion, Triumph, Looks

Sin was conquered on the cross. Christ's death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our triumph.

- Billy Graham

topic: Promise, Foundation, Triumph, Death And Rebirth

The triumph of an uncluttered mind.

- Blaine Nye

topic: Mind, Triumph

It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.

- Bob Thaves

topic: Evil, Triumph, Spread, Triumph Over Evil

Love is a fragile, corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond any comprehension Love is a weakness that once in a great while triumphs over strength.

- Brent Weeks

topic: Love Is, Weakness, Triumph, Fragile

It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of indefinite combination, and binding it in the chains of number, to exalt it to rank amongst the exact. Triumphs like these are necessarily 'few and far between.'

- Charles Babbage

topic: Discovery, Numbers, Triumph

O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace!

- Charles Wesley

source: Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.876, Ravenio Books

topic: Kings, Grace, Triumph, Redeemer

Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train.

- Charles Wesley

topic: Clouds, Triumph, Saint

Joyful, all ye nations, rise. Join the triumph of the skies. With angelic hosts proclaim "Christ is born in Bethlehem!

- Charles Wesley

topic: Sky, Joy, Triumph, Bethlehem

My work is one long triumph over my limitations.

- Charles Willeford

topic: Long, Triumph, Limitation

In a revolution, one triumphs or dies.

- Che Guevara

topic: Triumph, Revolution

There are none so low but they have their triumphs. Small successes suffice for small souls.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

topic: Soul, Triumph, Lows, Small Successes

Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?

- Christopher Marlowe

topic: Kings, Bravery, Triumph, Persepolis

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

- Clive James

source: Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.54, Pan Macmillan

topic: Triumph, Habit

I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph.

- Cordell Hull

topic: America, Triumph, Trials

It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism.

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Romance, Triumph, Cynicism, Brute Force

For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.

- Cressida Cowell

topic: Hero, Character, Triumph

Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high.

- Cynthia Weil

source: "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

topic: Love Is, Triumph, Someone You Love

True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!

- Dada Vaswani

topic: True Love, Love Is, Triumph

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.

- Dan Savage

topic: Triumph, Doe, Arms, Preaching To The Choir

Survival is not so much about the body, but rather it is about the triumph of the human spirit.

- Danitra Vance

topic: Survival, Triumph, Body, Human Spirit

The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness!

- Dante Gabriel Rossetti

source: Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery (1973). “Dante Gabriel Rossetti, painter and poet”

topic: Joy, Triumph, Delight, Wombats

To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.

- David Whyte

topic: Triumph, World, Persuasion

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.

- Douglas MacArthur

topic: War, History, Triumph, Destructiveness, No Turning Back

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Heart, Sorrow, Triumph, Confidant, Sadness And Sorrow

Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.

- Edwin Newman

source: Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”

topic: President, Vices, Triumph, Kissinger, Disengagement

We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Secret, Triumph, Treasure

Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.

- Eric Ambler

source: Eric Ambler (2008). “Epitaph for a Spy”, p.110, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

topic: Two, Evil, Triumph

Obamas finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They dont even really inspire. They elevate. . . . He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh . . . Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves.

- Ezra Klein

topic: Self, Inspire, Triumph

The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.

- Federica Montseny

topic: Struggle, Sacrifice, Triumph

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.

- Francois Guizot

source: François Guizot (1846). “The History of Civilization: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution”, p.134

topic: Heart, Numbers, Triumph

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

- Fred Allen

topic: People, Triumph, Machines

Television is a triumph of equipment over people,

- Fred Allen

topic: People, Triumph, Television

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Love, Triumph, Spirituality

[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar astronomy and atomic physics are the only sciences which stand higher in popular estimation.

- G. H. Hardy

topic: Triumph, May, Study, Praiseworthy, Estimation

The Hours is in fact a lovely triumph. Cunningham honors both Mrs. Dalloway and its creator with unerring sensitivity, thanks to his modesty of intention and his sovereignly affecting prose.... With his elliptical evocation of Mrs. Dalloway, he has managed to pay great but quiet tribute -- reminding us of the gorgeous, ferocious beauty of what endures.

- Gail Caldwell

topic: Lovely, Honor, Triumph, Cunninghams, Mrs Dalloway

Propose not to a woman when she hath gotten a new frock, nor when she is puffed up with victories; when she reigneth and rejoiceth in her hour of triumph, come not nigh unto her; but when she be ill or weary, when she is cast down in spirit and needeth a comforter, then be thou ready, and make thy suit.

- Gelett Burgess

topic: Victory, Triumph, Suits

A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.

- George Gershwin

topic: Emotional, Triumph, Machines, Skyscraper, Gershwin

The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph.... we must not retreat.

- George III

topic: Revolution, Retreat, Triumph, American Revolution

The triumph of sugar over diabetes.

- George Jean Nathan

topic: Sarcastic, Triumph, Sugar

Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.

- George Matthew Adams

topic: Inspirational, Triumph, Each Day

And I believe that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph again.

- George Orwell

topic: Believe, Triumph, I Believe, Totalitarianism

the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

- George Washington

topic: Business, Triumph, Blogging, Inspirational Presidential, Inspiring Presidential

What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.

- George Washington

topic: Liberty, Triumph, Despotism

My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.

- George Washington

topic: Brave, Enemy, Triumph

Since the hour when Christ despoiled Hades, men have danced in triumph over death.

- Gregory Thaumaturgus

source: Gregory Thaumaturgus (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Gregory Thaumaturgus (Annotated Edition)”, p.131, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Men, Triumph, Christianity, Hades

When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?

- Gunter Grass

topic: Triumph, Satan, Virtue

Thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ!

- Hannah Whitall Smith

topic: Triumph, Thanks, Christ

Ive never been a big believer in ghosts or the spirit world, and for me, that was part of the point of the movie, ... What the Ghostbusters represented was the triumph of human courage and human ingenuity. People create their own monsters. Our fears come from within us, not outside.

- Harold Ramis

topic: People, Monsters, Triumph, Spirit World

Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university; in the same mold were formed those of the art historians, the critics, the curators, and the collectors by whom their work was evaluated. With the rise of Conceptual art, the classroom announced its final triumph over the studio.

- Harold Rosenberg

topic: Art, Mind, Triumph, Curator, Conceptual Art

... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph.

- Harold Russell

topic: Odds, Soul, Triumph

Survival is triumph enough.

- Harry Crews

source: Harry Crews (1993). “Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

topic: Survival, Triumph, Enough

Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur?

- Henri Desgrange

topic: Triumph, Muscles, Artifice

Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

topic: Soul, Triumph, Heroism, Dazzling

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

- Henry de Montherlant

source: Henry de Montherlant (1960). “Selected Essays”, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson

topic: Men, Triumph, World

The storm is ended! The impartial sunLaughs down upon the battle lost and won,And crowns the triumph of the cloudy hostIn rolling lines retreating to the coast.

- Henry Van Dyke

topic: Storm, Battle, Triumph

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Character, Personality, Triumph, Clamor, Clamour

It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.

- Henryk Sienkiewicz

source: Henryk Sienkiewicz (2013). “Henryk Sienkiewicz: Three Stories”, p.7, Wildside Press LLC

topic: Triumph, Exhausted, Proof, Poland

The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.

- Herbert Croly

topic: Political, Triumph, Phases, Political History, Federalist

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

- Hilaire Belloc

topic: Victory, Triumph, Statistics, Statistician

The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Children, Effort, Triumph, Impurity

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Beauty, Soul, Triumph

Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity.

- Indro Montanelli

topic: Democracy, Triumph, Mediocrity

On the chessboard, if nowhere else, justice does triumph.

- Irving Chernev

topic: Justice, Triumph, Doe

The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.

- J. Carter Brown

topic: Triumph, East, Association

Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph.

- Jack Donovan

topic: Fighting, Men, Triumph

I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.

- Jack Gilbert

topic: Believe, Triumph, Failing, Icarus

It was hollow, my triumph, I could feel that, but I held on to it just the same.

- Jamaica Kincaid

topic: Triumph, Feels, Hollow

Animals are unpredictable things, and so our life is unpredictable. It's a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you've got to really like it to stick it.

- James Herriot

source: James Herriot (2012). “If Only They Could Talk: The classic memoirs of a 1930s vet”, p.34, Pan Macmillan

topic: Animal, Long, Triumph, Unpredictable Things

The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.

- James Hollis

topic: Goal, Ego, Triumph, Individuation

To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.

- James Joyce

topic: Fall, Triumph

Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.

- James Rachels

source: James Rachels (1999). “The Elements of Moral Philosophy”

topic: Real, Understanding, Triumph, True Friend Is, True Friendship

The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.

- James Rainwater

topic: Understanding, Triumph, Suggestions, Mayer

And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Race, Two, Triumph

I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.

- Jamie Sives

topic: Philosophy, Acting, Triumph, One For Me

Life is a series of triumphs and disappointments. Once you harness the disappointments, your triumphs will be greater.

- Jan Hellriegel

topic: Disappointment, Triumph, Life Is

[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.

- Jared Diamond

topic: People, Triumph, Inappropriate

Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content.

- Jay Maisel

topic: Light, Triumph, Gestures

Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who they are and they will offer you a wallet or a child.

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Children, Broken, Triumph

I testify that bad days come to an end, that faith always triumphs, and that heavenly promises are always kept.

- Jeffrey R. Holland

topic: Bad Day, Promise, Triumph

Since coming back from Iraq, there's been so many triumphs and obstacles standing in my way, so whenever I set my mind to something, I definitely just go full blast at it.

- Jessica Lynch

source: "Jessica Lynch: One Iraq war veteran's unique perspective" by Susan Candiotti, Ross Levitt, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2011.

topic: Iraq, Mind, Triumph

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

- Jim Cooper

source: "Jim Cooper Uses The N-Word To Illustrate His Call For A Voting Rights Amendment" by Preston Maddock, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2013.

topic: Law, Triumph, Equality Under The Law

Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Tragedy, Triumph, Plight, Miserable People, Unhappy People

I do not regard the Keynesian revolution as a great intellectual triumph. On the contrary, it was a tragedy because it came so late. Hitler had already found out how to cure unemployment before Keynes had finished explaining why it occured.

- Joan Robinson

source: American Economic Association, Joan Robinson (1972). “The Second Crisis of Economic Theory: And Other Selected Papers from the American Economic Meeting, December 27-29, 1971”

topic: Intellectual, Tragedy, Triumph, Keynes

This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life, and have never yet overtaken.

- Joanna Baillie

source: Joanna Baillie (1836). “The separation: a tragedy”, p.173

topic: Triumph

It is what we see when we imagine what the afterlife must be like: our happiest triumphs, our most sincere moments, stolen from the seam of our lives, a respite just before the onset of imminent tragedy.

- Joe Meno

source: Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.285, Akashic Books

topic: Afterlife, Tragedy, Triumph, Respite

Art is the triumph over chaos.

- John Cheever

source: John Cheever (1961). “Some Peoples, Places, and Things that Will Not Appear in My Next Novel”, New York : Harper

topic: Art, Triumph, Chaos, Modern Art, Chaos In The World

Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.

- John Dryden

topic: Atheist, Vices, Triumph

The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted.

- John Dryden

topic: Triumph, Praise, Adversaries, Commendation

In those early centuries of Christianity, Christianity did not go into the world apologizing. It went to slay the powers of darkness and undo the works of the devil, and it lived in holy triumph.

- John G. Lake

source: John G. Lake (2010). “Your Power In The Holy Spirit”, p.78, Whitaker House

topic: Darkness, Devil, Triumph

I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph.

- John H. Johnson

topic: Success, Believe, Triumph

The relationship between the obedience of Gods people and the triumph of Gods cause is not a relationship of cause and effect but one of cross and resurrection.

- John Howard Yoder

topic: People, Triumph, Causes

Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain.

- John Keble

topic: Triumph, Saint, Looks, Swerve, Christ Like

I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.

- Jonas Salk

topic: Errors, Evil, Triumph, Good Over Evil

When you decide firmly to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you: it will be a crown of triumph.

- Josemaria Escriva

topic: Triumph, Crowns, Burden, Chastity Purity

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

topic: Triumph, Eternal Love, Righteousness

THERE WILL COME A DAY WHEN ALL THE LIES WILL COLLAPSE UNDER THEIR OWN WEIGHT, AND THE TRUTH WILL TRIUMPH AGAIN

- Joseph Goebbels

topic: Lying, Triumph, Weight

The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith â€” and faith will triumph.

- Joseph Joffre

source: Speech at the unveiling of a statue of Lafayette in Brooklyn (1917), as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, 1922.

topic: Discipline, Triumph

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

- Joseph Stowell

topic: God, Tragedy, Triumph

Usually the triumph of my day is, you know, everybody making it to the potty

- Julia Roberts

topic: Parent, Triumph, Potty

Charity is an unending self-discipline which always looks and leads towards the eternal affection. Therefore, its triumph shall be lasting and everlasting.

- Julia Ward Howe

source: Entry in the journal for July 23, 1875. "The Walk With God". Book by Julia Ward Howe, 1919.

topic: Self, Discipline, Triumph, Unending

This had been real: real in its flaws and uncertainties, real in its small triumphs, real in its compromises and understanding.

- Juliet Marillier

topic: Real, Understanding, Triumph, Been Real

Wisdom triumphs over chance.

- Juvenal

topic: Triumph, Chance

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.

- Karel Capek

source: "Karel Čapek: Life and Work". Book by Ivan Klima, 2002.

topic: Triumph, Might, Melancholy

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

- Karen Kingsbury

topic: Writing, Triumph, Stories, Contemporary Life, Between The Lines

The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.

- Karl Kraus

topic: Broken, Triumph, Thieves, Blackmail, Burglary

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

- Kathie Lee Gifford

topic: Triumph, Bliss, Disaster

Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that

- Kathrine Switzer

topic: Adversity, Triumph, Marathon, Triumph Over Adversity

If you look at things as they are, there does not seem to be a code either of man or of God on which one can pattern one's conduct. Wrong triumphs over right as much as right over wrong. Sometimes its triumphs are greater. What happens ultimately, you do not know. In such circumstances what can you do but cultivate an utter indifference to all values? Nothing matters. Nothing whatever...

- Khushwant Singh

source: Khushwant Singh (2009). “Train to Pakistan”, p.181, Penguin Books India

topic: Men, Triumph, Doe, Nothing Matters

You are never too young to lead and you should never doubt your capacity to triumph where others have not.

- Kofi Annan

topic: Doubt, Triumph, Should

The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Organization, Triumph, Matter

Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace

- L. J. Smith

source: L. J. Smith (2014). “Vampire Diaries: The First Bite 4-Book Collection: The Awakening, The Struggle, The Fury, Dark Reunion”, p.17, Harper Collins

topic: Evil, Triumph, May

Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.

- Larry McMurtry

source: Larry McMurtry (2000). “Roads: Driving America's Great Highways”

topic: Contentment, Triumph, Youth

Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.

- Laurence Sterne

topic: Happiness, Triumph, Add, Positiveness, Foibles

As Africans Americans we often think about the tragic stories associated with our lineage, but there are a lot of triumphs. Traveling helps you learn about other aspects of our history, like the story of Christ the Redeemer. It's empowering and inspiring.

- Laz Alonso

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Empowering, Triumph