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Quotes About Triumph

To live with glory, or with glory die, This is the brave man's part.
~ Sophocles
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he
~ Stendhal
For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.
~ Thomas Paine
The Life Triumphant is that which places what a man gives to the world in creative expression far ahead of that which he takes from it of the creations of others.
~ Walter Russell
No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Victory passes back and forth between men.
~ Homer
No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire
~ Nicholas Evans
Great men have big failures.
~ Rudy Giuliani
The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.
~ Mary Catherwood
Knowledge and action combined can win over any adversity known to man.
~ Karen Hawkins
The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.
~ Seneca the Younger
Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.
~ Yip Harburg
Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
~ Andre Gide
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
~ Ben Jonson
Dead men always have the last laugh. They win. They're dead. You can't hurt their feelings anymore.
~ Cass McCombs
No matter how skillfully a man play the game of life, there is but one test of his ability--did he win?
~ Charles Lever
Your men are brave men, And you have won. I can live with that, Earl of Bronze a poor man would I be if I could not.
~ David Gemmell
Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
~ Edward Young
Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!
~ Friedrich Schiller
We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.
~ George W. Bush