Quotes About Triumph

Christ teaches us to pray not only by example, by instruction, by command, by promises, but by showing us HIMSELF, the ever-living Intercessor, as our Life. It is when we believe this, and go and abide in Him for our prayer-life too, that our fears of not being able to pray aright will vanish, and we shall joyfully and triumphantly trust our Lord to teach us to pray, to be Himself the life and the power of our prayer.

and unlovable a man is the more I will love him. When I am brought to such a state that the more obstacles, hatred, and ingratitude surround me, the more the power of love can triumph in me. Until I am brought to see these, I am not saying: "It is impossible

It is, after all, almost a miracle they are here. Not because they've survived the booze, the hashish, the migraines. Not that at all. It's that they've survived everything in life, humiliations and disappointments and heartaches and missed opportunities, bad dads and bad jobs and bad sex and bad drugs, all the trips and mistakes and face-plants of life, to have made it to fifty and to have made it here:

After you've forged meaning, you need to incorporate that meaning into a new identity, 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 have caused you hurt.

It is not suffering that is precious, but the concentric pearlescence with which we contain it. The raw grit of anguish will never be in short supply. There is enough of it in the happiest life to serve these instructive purposes, and there always will be. We are more sympathetic to Holocaust survivors than to malcontent children of privilege, but we all have our darkness, and the trick is making something exalted of it.

I had to know the stories these women had to tell," she explained, "because I wanted to understand very specifically what each one had to vanquish.

Ann M. Martin

Laughing, we all trooped out to celebrate Mallory's victory.

Whoever submits himself to a super-discipline can expect great triumphs.

The world is filled with broken places. Pick your battles, and go win some.

A second marriage is a triumph of hope over experience.

The triumph of hope over experience.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Because with joy, we overcome the terror. With love, strength, and hope, we prevail.

Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.

Saratoga was the turning point of the war, the most spectacular patriot victory to date.

More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how gruesomely human beings are destroyed by pain, when they have the added torment of losing their humanity first, so that their death is a total defeat...

Nature is a deep imitator. And as man is the prince of organisms he is master of adaptations. He is the artist of suggestions. He himself is his principle work of art, in the body working in the flesh. What miracle! What triumph! Also, what a disaster! What tears are to be shed!

grabbing failure by the throat and squeezing it until it coughs up a hairball of success.

Victory carries a moral burden the vanquished never know

Du mußt steigen oder sinken, Du mußt herrschen und gewinnen, Oder dienen und verlieren, Leiden oder triumphieren, Amboß oder Hammer sein.

Success is something that comes to you after you pull off many seemingly impossible tasks.

When life throws you to your back, you need to know how not to get pinned, get off of your back and do enough to make up the difference in order to win.

What if the greatest part of the pack have run upon a false scent, may not the hindmost dog hit it off?