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Quotes About Triumph

But everyone on the British side knew Nelson had arrived.
~ Unknown
With almost fifty guns already loaded and still working on the starboard side, the Spanish won.
~ Unknown
The enemy hauled our colours down and the slaughter ceased entirely after a while.
~ Unknown
It was a brilliant performance, a great triumph for Fulton.
~ Unknown
I have taken 60,000 prisoners, captured 120 pieces of cannon, more than ninety flags, and more than thirty generals.
~ Unknown
I have taken 60,000 prisoners, captured 120 pieces of cannon, more than ninety flags,
~ Unknown
To lose is to win, and he who wins shall lose.
~ Unknown
No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire
~ Nicholas Evans
Story of Success)
~ Unknown
in rock'n'roll it wasn't the winners but the losers who made for the most compelling stories.
~ Unknown
America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.
~ Nick Rahall
Breguswith blazed with triumph. She shrugged with it. Her eyes flashed brighter than the blue-glazed loom weights, brighter than the lapis on her veil band, brighter than the hilt inlay on her edgeless Kentish sword, thrust through her belt, which she used as a weft beater.
~ Nicola Griffith
Ethical rules vary; honour does not change. A man is noble if he prefers to fail rather than to debase the tools of his triumph.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The progressive's cardinal syllogism is simply beautiful: the best always triumphs, because what triumphs is called the best.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The day she clips her way out of her cocoon, the only sound she plans to hear is a deafening cheer.
~ Nikki Grimes
April 43rd 2000 Today is the day of great triumph. There is a king of Spain. He has been found at last. That king is me. I only discovered this today. Frankly, it all came to me in a flash.
~ Nikolai Gogol
But our God is good for a great story—funny stories that are often birthed in tragedy and hardship!
~ Unknown
He who keeps his cool best wins.
~ Norman Cousins
Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.
~ Norman Ralph Augustine
I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
A masterful retreat is itself a victory.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Entonces triunfará María, Madre de Dios (a la que Nostradamus indica como una curiosa perífrasis, siendo «maría» el plural del nombre latino «mare»), de la cual se ha dicho que «las puertas del Infierno no prevalecerán contra ella».
~ Nostradamus
I lost an arm on my last trip home.
~ Octavia E. Butler
We are a harvest of survivors.
~ Octavia E. Butler