Quotes About Triumph

I believe in the power of DESIRE backed by FAITH, because I have seen this power lift men from lowly beginnings to places of power and wealth; I have seen it rob the grave of its victims; I have seen it serve as the medium by which men staged a comeback after having been defeated in a hundred different ways; I have seen it provide my own son with a normal, happy, successful life, despite Nature's having sent him into the world without ears.

their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.

East to the West, but he, too turned defeat into victory

All the world loves a winner, and has no time for a loser.

Abraham Lincoln was a failure at everything he tried, until he was well past the age of forty. He was a Mr Nobody from Nowhere, until a great experience came into his life, aroused the sleeping genius within his heart and brain, and gave the world one of its really great men.

Too much success is the enemy, too much failure is demoralizing.

from the reference point of the winner (and, who does not, and this is key, take the losers into account), a long string of wins will appear to be too extraordinary an occurrence to be explained by luck. Note

So what counts is the payoff from success.

The thing I want you to understand," Ayn was saying, "is that no matter how hard the battle, it can be won. You can break through.

If we look through all the heroic fortunes of mankind, we shall find [the] same entanglement of something mean and trivial with whatever is noblest in joy or sorrow. Life is made up of marble and mud.

I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.

I am a series of small victories and large defeats.

our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory

when Whitman wrote, "I sing the body electric" I know what he meant I know what he wanted: to be completely alive every moment in spite of the inevitable. we can't cheat death but we can make it work so hard that when it does take us it will have known a victory just as perfect as ours

But no, there weren't any maybes. Wealth meant victory and victory was the only reality.

Wealth meant victory and victory was the only reality. What

You are a bum, he told me, and you'll always be a bum! and I thought, if being a bum is to be the opposite of what this son-of-a-bitch is, then that's what I'm going to be. and it's too bad he's been dead so long for now he can't see how beautifully I've succeeded at that.

now, all there is to do is reset broken moments. when even to exist seems a victory

the generals and the doctors may kill us but we have won.

Eugene wins again because he's not even thinking about me.

of venereal soldiers along the way. A more effective

Greatness? I have tasted that cup within the last twelve months; do I not know that it is sweet in the mouth, but bitter in the belly?

It is so American, fire. So like us. Its desolation. And its eventual, brief triumph.

companies and leaned back smiling. He had the fort