Quotes About Triumph

Head up, back like a ramrod, Dotty faced her solicitor. Tears were coursing down her papery old cheeks and splashing unchecked upon the fur coat. But, through the tears, Dotty's expression was one of utter triumph.

FRANK HAYES IS THE only jockey to win a race after death. No, really! It was 1923, and poor Frank suffered a fatal heart attack in the middle of a race at Belmont Park in New York. However, his horse, Sweet Kiss, didn't know this and carried on to win the race with the lifeless jockey still on board.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

El candidato ya está seguro de su futuro político—: ¡Nada ni nadie podrá evitar el triunfo del pueblo el próximo domingo! —grita.

il n'est rien de si doux que de triompher de la résistance d'une belle personne.

Do not therefore pull yourself up with vain-glory about the trifling advantages of a poor victory.

Toute âme est libre à nommer son vainqueur.

Plus grand est l'obstacle, plus grande est la gloire de le surmonter.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

All of you chumps are gonna bow, when i whoop him. All of y'all! I know you got him, i know you got him picked....But the man's in trouble. I'mma show You how great i am

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great

In particular, we must examine the firm and growing conviction of the present author not only that libertarianism will triumph eventually and in the long run, but also that it will emerge victorious in a remarkably short period of time. For I am convinced that the dark night of tyranny is ending, and that a new dawn of liberty is now at hand.

God does not accept a challenge unless victory is already guaranteed.

Peace is only beautiful if you are on the winning side.

The more challenges you overcome, the better you become as a human being.

New creation itself has begun, they are saying, and will be completed. Jesus is ruling over that new creation and making it happen through the witness of his church. "The ruler of this world" has been overthrown; the powers of the world have been led behind Jesus's triumphal procession as a beaten, bedraggled rabble. And that is how God is becoming king on earth as in heaven. That is the truth the gospels are eager to tell us, the

We expect to suffer, but we know already that we are victorious.

But if there had been an earlier "victory," when did it take place? Matthew, Mark, and Luke all supply the answer: at the beginning of Jesus's public career, during his forty-day fast in the desert, when the satan tried to distract him, to persuade him to grasp the right goal by the wrong means, and so to bring him over to his side (Matt. 4:1–11; Mark 1:12–13; Luke 4:1–13).

The victory achieved by Jesus didn't stop Paul from being shipwrecked, but it did mean that when he got to Rome to announce God as king and Jesus as Lord, he would know that he came with the scent of victory already in his nostrils. The God who defeated death through Jesus and rescued Paul from the depths of the sea would enable him to look worldly emperors in the face without flinching.

That is what worship is all about. It is the glad shout of praise that arises to God the creator and God the rescuer from the creation that recognizes its maker, the creation that acknowledges the triumph of Jesus the Lamb. That is the worship that is going on in heaven, in God's dimension, all the time. The question we ought to be asking is how best we might join in.