Quotes About Triumph

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. —Vince Lombardi

If you look closer, if you go slowly, there can be story even without progress or plot, life in small change, like Dante and Beatrice, like fish swimming hard against the current just to stay where they are. They're not getting anywhere, neither Dante nor the fish, but that doesn't mean there isn't effort, growth, triumph, and beautiful poetry. Trust me, stasis is challenging. And challenge is story.

The bitch-goddess, Success, was trailed by thousands of gasping dogs with lolling tongues.

To a great extent, the superior transportation and agricultural technology of Europe and its efficient economic and logistic methods made possible its triumph over the primitive world, not its customary military techniques and advanced weapons. The

What happened? They had it! They had it in the palm of their hands! They grabbed defeat from the jaws of victory!

Tales of heroes end in bliss.

The satisfaction you get when you finally beat your dad is amazing, that rush of adrenaline.

Ballantyne made the Big Jump, he and the men with him. They did the biggest thin men have ever done. They reached out and touched the stars. And you tried to hide it, to cover it up, to rob them even of the glory they had coming.

This is the look Winners have constantly. They stand with assurance. They move with confidence. They smile softly with pride. No doubt about it! Good posture symbolizes you are a man or woman who is used to being on top.

Born to lose. Live to win.

Right, good temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

A great man once said that right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

So what do we do?... We keep reading, and it just might be our turn to triumph.

You should have given up a long time ago, orphans. I triumphed the moment you lost your family." "We didn't lose our family. Only our parents.

No matter how many slow and complicated mysteries I encounters in my life, I still hope that one day a slow and complicated mystery will be solved quickly and simply. An associate of mine calls this feeling "the triumph of hope over experience", which simply means that it's never going to happen, and that is what happened then.

It's Esmé Squalor!" an Elder cried. "She used to be the city's sixth most successful financial advisor, but now she works with Count Olaf!" "I heard the two of them are dating!" Mrs. Morrow said in horror. "We are dating!" Esmé cried in triumph. She climbed aboard Olaf's motorcycle and tossed her helmet to the ground, showing that she cared no more about motorcycle safety than she did about the welfare of crows.

A great man once said that right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Do you understand what that means?

It was kicking butt! What

He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished; he died.

tell us the events that took place in

She formed her life day by day, taking as its materials the emptiness and panic as well as the rushes, like fever, of contentment. I am beyond fear of solitude, she thought, I am past it. The idea thrilled her. I am beyond it and I will not sink. This submission, this triumph made her stronger. It was as if finally, after having passed through inferior stages, her life had found a form worthy of it.

There are men who seem to have seized the trunk of life, and he was one of them. It might not be for everyone, the great, scarring thing you could not get your arms around, but it was there for him.

All that's left for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.

The world is a good place, and so are most of the people who live in it. Evil people are a minority, and they're not supposed to win. When they go down, we have every right to pop a bottle of champagne and cheer.