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Quotes About Triumph

So you think that you're a failure, do ya? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you have any sense at all, we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail! But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.
~ Tom Robbins
It was 843 B.C.. The year the patriarchs won the pennant.
~ Tom Robbins
Bandaged in dirty clouds and seeping rabbit milk from a wound in its side, the sun rolls the stone from the tomb of night, to emerge—pale, blinking, but triumphant—into Easter's yard, somewhere between "Coca-Cola" and "IBMmmm.
~ Tom Robbins
The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.
~ Toni Morrison
They stopped me from getting us there, but they didn't stop you from getting here. Ha ha.
~ Toni Morrison
The fathers may soar, they may triumph, they may leave, but the children know who they are; they remember, half in glory and half in accusation.
~ Toni Morrison
God can take your most monstrous failures and turn them into triumphs such as you never could imagine.
~ Tony Evans
De hecho, una piedra no pudo retenerlo en la tumba ni después de su propia muerte.
~ Tony Evans
want to assure you that regardless of what you're facing today, God is a God of hope, and He will provide a way for you to experience victory in
~ Tony Evans
poems of experience bear the scars and wounds and scorch marks, even the imperfections that damage leaves on the soul, but a good poem also testifies to the triumph of still being able to speak.
~ Tony Hoagland
Oh meraviglia! Amor, ch'a pena è nato, già grande vola, e già trionfa armato.
~ Torquato Tasso
They say living well is the best revenge and we were already living well so we knew we'd already won.
~ Touré
Jahaan mein ahle-eemaan soorat-e-khursheed jeetay hain, Idhar doobey, udhar nikley; udhar doobey, idhar niklay. In this world men of faith and self-confidence are    like the sun, They go down on one side to come up on the other.
~ Khushwant Singh
It had been awful, but I hadn't quit. I had persisted. In battle I had won.
~ Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Victory,' she said, 'means peace.
~ Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Your courage, your cheerfulness, your resolution'—she was saying it wrong. I scowled—'will bring you victory, my dear.
~ Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
~ Little bruder,
You Struggle with your Demons an you Conquer them.
~ Kinky Friedman
Now, why did he have a hard time believing that?...Because it would be the first time in your life that you ever won an argument with Lord Thick and Knotty Pate. (Morgan)
~ Kinley MacGregor
Doors of heroes into the world are not easily opened but those that exit them are easily opened
~ KIZZA RONALD
I just didn't want to be a loser anymore... -Mitsuko Souma
~ Koushun Takami
I was the one who attacked Hiroki. At the very end, when Hiroki managed to achieve his goal.
~ Koushun Takami
Anyone who had died young after a happy childhood had won a great victory, since he would be forever spared the discovery of what sort of place the world really is. Others must look forward to death by defeat - their bodies gone, their world destroyed.
~ Carlos Baker
There's always that peculiar thing that rescues you, the thing that's so hard to name. If I were to locate and then identify all the hellish things we all have to go through in life in order to uncover one minute of happiness, it would take up a lot of space.
~ Carly Simon