Quotes About Triumph

If I go to a club and marry a project, I go to win.

When everybody comes back and the task is accomplished, it is a success by every measure of the word.

joy costs pain.

All great stories are about survival—either physical, emotional, relational, or spiritual.

In stories, the external problem is often a physical, tangible problem the hero must overcome in order to save the day.

Tommy Boy saves his father's company. Rudy finally gets to play football for Notre Dame. Erin Brockovich wins the court case. The third part of your one-liner should release all the tension you created in the first section.

STORYBRAND PRINCIPLE SIX: EVERY HUMAN BEING IS TRYING TO AVOID A TRAGIC ENDING.

All great stories are about survival—either physical, emotional, relational, or spiritual. A story about anything else won't work to captivate an audience.

The only two motivations a hero has in a story are to escape something bad or experience something good.

the successful entrepreneur's unique ability to turn trying times into triumphs.

His voice had the petty, triumphant air of someone who enjoys catching the small and meaningless mistakes of others.

Or--to quote another paradoxical gem of my dad's: sometimes you have to lose to win.

another paradoxical gem of my dad's: sometimes you have to lose to win.

Marasaw palôh hâh lei bao chala, "Enga" reih khiah ma khizaw lia a sâhchai tlâ tah ei.

I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when things or people were complex or contradictory, I pretended otherwise. I turned every defeat into a disaster, every success into an epic triumph, and separated all people into heroes or villains. Unable to bear ambiguity, I built a barricade of delusions against it.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. B.C. FORBES Founder of Forbes magazine

When you think you can't, revisit a previous triumph.

Three Sips of Gin,

Remember, a fight isn't just about surviving, it's about prevailing.

Goodness is a triumph. And so it is / with love. Love is not the part / we are born with that flowers / a little and then wanes as we / grow up. We cobble love together / from this and those of our machinery / until there is suddenly an apparition / that never existed before.

Josy Barthel came first in the 1500m at the 1952 Olympic Games. This was a real triumph, as being from the tiny country of Luxembourg, no-one had expected him to have a chance - especially the band, who hadn't brought the music for Luxembourg's national anthem with them. They were forced to improvise, causing Barthel to put his head in his hands and weep.

celebrate your survival

He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.