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Quotes About Triumph

To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.
~ Studs Terkel
Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.
~ George Matthew Adams
Riding hard for glory.
~ Irving Layton
Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.
~ Pierre Corneille
Perfection does not exist. To understand this is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
~ Alfred de Musset
You know what they call the guy who finishes last in medical school? They call him Doctor!
~ Abe Lemons
For me, at least, there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until, by and by, out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
I never lost a game. I just ran out of time.
~ Bobby Layne
When praying for healing, ask great things of God and expect great things from God. But let us seek for that healing that really matters, the healing of the heart, enabling us to trust God simply, face God honestly, and live triumphantly.
~ Arlo F. Newell
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything it's value.
~ Thomas Paine
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
~ Samuel Johnson
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.
~ Booker T. Washington
Difficulties exist to be surmounted.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
~ Bertolt Brecht
It requires a strong constitution to withstand repeated attacks of prosperity.
~ J. L. Basford
We [Americans] cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.
~ Brooks Atkinson
The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
~ Euripides
It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed.
~ William Hazlitt
I survived. (J'ai vecu.)
~ Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes
I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I gained one.
~ Voltaire
My downfall raises me to infinite heights.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
~ Plautus