Quotes About Triumph

He thocht weill he wes worth na seyle, That mycht of nane anoyis feyle; And als for till escheve gret thingis, And hard trawalyis, and barganyngis, That suld ger his price dowblyt be. Quharfor, in all hys lyve tyme, he Wes in gret payn, ec gret trawaill; And neuir wald for myscheiff faill, Bot dryve the thing rycht to the end, And tak the vre that God wald send.

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory or defeat.

But living well is the best revenge, isn't it," she declared.

Failure can have a certain grandeur that success never knows

So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.

perhaps, now he finds more joy in life, having survived

The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection.

if we have Jesus Christ with us, we shall come upon nothing so accursed that he will not turn it into a blessing; nothing

there shall never be quietness for the Kingdom of Christ in this world, because it will always be infested and troubled by its enemies. Secondly

but will supply our necessities until our warfare is ended, and we are called to triumph: such being the nature of his kingdom, that he communicates to us whatever he received of his Father. Since then he arms and equips us by his power, adorns us with splendour and magnificence

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice, but in a world that changes more swiftly that we can perceive there is always the danger that our powers of selection will be mistaken and that the vision we serve will come to nothing.

I have come to love health and life and work, to think of each day as a gift, tomorrow a bounty, a land of unknown triumph and tragedy, and for all of it I am ready.

At the Oceana Apartments, he recollects leaving England in triumph, infused with a joy he has not felt in many years. England has reinvigorated them. England has given them hope. But hope is a candle. Hope burns, and then it is gone.

But there was a saying in Hebrew, "We survived Pharoah, we'll survive this too." In the words of the old joke, it was the theme of every Jewish holiday: they tried to kill us, they failed, so let's eat!

Parker had no pity for the two men, not after listening to them boast of what they'd done, but neither was he experiencing any sense of triumph, only a vague depression. It wasn't entirely due to the nature of the case, although that was part of it; mostly it was a consequence of exposure to the workings of the legal system. Anyone who spent time in a courtroom emerged with scars. The only variables were quantity and depth.

Don't waste effort on a thing that ends in a petty triumph unless you are happy with a life of petty success

That so all vapours of all disobedience to thee, being subdued under my feet, I may, in the power and triumph of thy Son, tread victoriously upon my grave, and trample upon the lion and dragon [182] that lie under it to devour me.

Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.

My life is basically a big chunk of greatness.

There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you're invincible.

Be gone, sorrow, sickness, wheelchairs, and cancer! Enough of you, screams of fear and nights of horror! Death, you die! Life, you reign!