Quotes About Triumph

He has lost his left arm, but I my right.

It's alright if you lose a few battles, but as long as you win the war, that's all that matters.

Conquer or be conquered.

So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

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.

Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.

I was wondering if the scene in the drawing-room had been a triumph or a disaster or merely a chaotic piece of bad taste verging on bathos, but I reflected that the only important question was whether I had communicated my message to my parents. I continued to smoke my cigarette and occasionally I shuddered. I wondered dimly how anyone ever survived their families.

I came through the crucible, and it did not reduce me to ashes. I survived.

I battled for my child and I prevailed.

The day will end jubilant. Jubilant.

She felt shy, like a precious gift being gloatingly unwrapped, but she didn't resent his moment of purely masculine triumph. The glory of the moment was also hers, this beautiful man hers. He was giving himself to her and asking nothing but what she was willing to give in return.

It's human nature to set a point in our minds when we feel triumphant and to measure everything that comes after it by how far we fall or rise from that point.

Once we started with the orchids, we've never looked back," he said. "I grew to be quite in love with them, you know. I like them because they're slightly evil and slightly mysterious, don't you think? In the early days I found it hard to make them flower, and when I did, it was a great, great triumph. They are a great, great challenge. They sulk, they pout, they ignore you. But it's onward with the orchids!

Well, as they said, it's not over until the mockingjay sings.

No wonder I won the Games. NO decent person ever does.

Yes, victors are our strongest. They're the ones who survived the arena and slipped the noose of poverty that strangles the rest of us. They, or should I say we, are the very embodiment of hope where there is no hope. And now twenty-three of us will be killed to show how even that hope was an illusion.

We're victors, remember? We're the ones who can survive anything they throw at us

In any scenario, it's preferable to have the upper hand, to be the victor rather than the defeated.

Yes, victors are our strongest. They're the ones who survived the arena and slipped the noose of poverty that strangles the rest of us. They,

Because whatever happened in the past is in the past. And no one in this arena was a victor by chance." He

We both know they have to have a victor.

happy little victor

Who can look past the radiant faces of two people for whom this day was once a virtual impossibility?