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Quotes About Triumph

Mes esame tiltas per amžinyb?, nusidriekiantis viršum j?ros: patrak?liškai ieškantys malonum?, smagiai tyrin?jantys paslaptis, pasirenkantys nelaimes, triumf?, išm?ginimus, ne?tik?tinus sutapimus, v?l ir v?l iš naujo išbandantys save ir besimokantys myl?ti, myl?ti, MYL?TI!
~ Richard Bach
I know that not all my readers like my digressions, but the research that has been done on Caenorhabditis elegans is such a ringing triumph of science that you aren't going to stop me.
~ Richard Dawkins
Richard Hough
~ preposterous
Still, it had been a triumphal six-week tour. The nervy, smooth-talking governor had dispossessed the natives of 20,000 square miles without firing a shot. In return, the Indians were given nine reservations totaling about 93 square miles and promised $300,000 in hardware over the next two decades and a few vocational services. The U.S. government was subject to no penalties if it welshed on any of its promises.
~ Richard Kluger
Before she knew what she was about, she was jumping about like a crazy woman, yelling, "Yes! Yes! I win!" "You don't win," Anthony snapped. "Oh, it feels like I've won," she reveled.
~ Julia Quinn
The self-doubt of the young is nothing compared to the self-doubt of the old. And this, perhaps, was their final triumph over him. Instead of killing him, they had allowed him to live, and by allowing him to live, they had killed him. This was the final, unanswerable irony to his life: that by allowing him to live, they had killed him.
~ Julian Barnes
You remembered your past in cheerful terms because this validated your existence. You didn't have to see your life as any kind of triumph – his own had hardly been that – but you did need to tell yourself that it had been interesting, enjoyable, purposeful.
~ Julian Barnes
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th time.
~ Julie Andrews
Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.
~ Julie Andrews Edwards
The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. …" OLD TESTAMENT, ECCLESLASTES, 4:2
~ Julie Garwood
There was never any question, not even in the darkest moment, that the hero would conquer both his enemies and his self-doubt.
~ Juliet Marillier
Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.
~ Junot Diaz
It was a fairy tale, Hovick style, in which drama trumped veracity and the women always won. On
~ Karen Abbott
we have come to depend on the instant rush of energy and delight we feel when we display our cleverness by making an unkind remark and the spurt of triumph when we vanquish an annoying colleague. Thus do we assert ourselves and tell the world who we are. It is difficult to break a habit upon which we depend for our sense of self.
~ Karen Armstrong
I have conquered them all, but I am standing amongst graves
~ Karen Blixen
I noticed the look of astonishment pass between Evelyn and Tamara and couldn't resist throwing them a triumphant look. The meek mouse they thought they were dealing with had grown sharp teeth. And she would use them if she had to
~ Karen King
May the Force spare me another victory like this.
~ Karen Miller
the luxury vacations had come as a personal affront to a woman who had survived the Great Depression, a world war, the death of a husband, the loss of two children, and countless other hardships. Claire
~ Karin Slaughter
El ejército cuyas tropas se pegan menos entre sí es el que triunfa sobre el otro.
~ Karl Marx
They had triumphed over death this night. Sylvie wondered when death would seek his revenge.
~ Kate Atkinson
A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.
~ James Ellis
Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Man's greatest victory is over oneself.
~ Plato
As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure
~ Orison Swett Marden