Quotes About Triumph

Alas! she is nothing now but a soul, a soul which beams upon her son and me; the body no longer exists; she has conquered suffering. Think what a spectacle for a father!

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

The historical arc of black triumph followed by harsh white response was not only instructive in understanding the big issues, such as Reconstruction or the half century of mobilized white response to Brown v. Board of Education, but it also felt very much a part of a menacing present marked by the throaty and effusive rejection of history itself.

Sports is human life in microcosm.

An authoritative and highly readable history of atomism is Bernard Pullman's The Atom in the History of Human Thought, translated by Axel Reisinger (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997). Pullman traces the ups and downs of atomic theory through the centuries and shows how it finally triumphed only at the beginning of the twentieth century.

La vita è fatta di problemi irrisolti, vittorie ambigue e vaghe sconfitte, con qualche momento di autentica pace.

It is a victory of shit and our defeat. Call it a defeat, but of courage, value and dignity.

There cannot be any 'story' without a fall – all stories are ultimately about the fall – at least not for human minds as we know them and have them. Letter 131 To Milton Waldman

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer -- he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

Success is a collection of problems solved.

To Win, You have to accept defeat

To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.

Bottled water is a triumph of modern consumerism and marketing.

There is no failure, just the gradual process of success.

Colin Falconer

Colleen Thompson

One with great successes has had equally great hardships.

Over every obstacle I leap, over every trial I triumph, and over ever bridge I cross to see my vision come true.

You have succeeded even when you think you have failed.

The point of war is to win, Kachiun. It does not matter how we do it, or how long it takes.

The greatest joy a man can know is to conquer his enemies and drive them before him. To ride their horses and take away their possessions, to see the faces of those who were dear to them bedewed with tears, and to clasp their wives and daughters in his arms.

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All I do know is that the world has a Chief who was victorious when the powers of darkness struck at him with everything they had. He has the plans today. The darkness won't last forever. There's a splendour beyond.

In this sign shalt thou conquer.