Quotes About Triumph

This is God's victory: not mine.

Any triumph she has is halved if I am not there to see it. And anything that goes wrong for me, any slight or humiliation, she is quick to perceive and she would even be quick to revenge—oh!—but inside her heart is singing to know that I have taken a blow.

She knows, and I know, that she rode in the Tudor barge past my window when I was in sanctuary, and she enjoyed her moment of triumph then. And she knows, and I know, that I have the upper hand now. We don't forget that. We aren't men to clap each other on the back and say 'No hard feelings' after a battle. But we know also that the world has changed and we have to change too.

I didn't just come in on a load of turnips!

But Above all things truth beareth away the victory

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

From all these, then, they will be finally free, and they will live a happier life than that men count most happy, the life of victors at Olympia.

Menaklukan diri sendiri adalah kemenangan yang paling akbar.

Education certainly gives victory, although victory sometimes produces forgetfulness of education; for many have grown insolent from victory in war, and this insolence has engendered in them innumerable evils; and many a victory has been and will be suicidal to the victors; but education is never suicidal.

Tears were fated for Hekabe and Ilium's women from the day of their birth, but Dion, just when you triumphed with famous works, all your wandering hopes were cast down by the gods. Now dead in your spacious city, you are honored by patriots— But I was one who loved you, O Dion!

Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.

We love winners. We love winners. Winners are winners.

The triumph of human identity and worth over the pathology of human destruction glows virtually everywhere in Levi's writing.

Priscilla Cummings

Despite all the pain, all the wrenching loss, there is no greater glory than a complicated life.

We must speak plainly. Only honesty provides truth. Only truth delivers triumph.

Shane: Score, he said, and raised the crowbar in triumph. Who's your daddy? - Black Dawn

In bocca al lupo' 'Crepi il lupo

No point in playing if your goal is to lose.

The only way back from such a bleak despondency is to shape humiliation into humility, to strive always to triumph over the darkness while never forgetting that the honor and the beauty are more in the striving than in the winning. When triumph at last comes, our efforts alone could not have won the day without that grace which surpasses all understanding and which will, if we allow it, imbue our lives with meaning.

There's no tragedy in nature, only process -- and therefore no triumph, either.

Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.

Life is so fragile and uncertain that every daybreak is a miracle, almost a triumph. That first blush in the sky is all the hope of the world distilled into light. I watch the dark fade, and say to myself, "Okay, I'm still here," and the more sunrises I see, the more I feel as if I'll live to see another twenty thousand.