Quotes About Triumph

he was often heard to say, 'I won the only duel I ever lost.

Like Jean Genet, Robert was a terrible thief. Genet was caught and imprisoned for stealing rare volumes of Proust and rolls of silk from a shirt maker. Aesthetic thieves. I imagined his sense of horror and triumph as bits of Blake swirled into the sewers of New York City.

We all have a song. A song comes spontaneously, expressing joy, loneliness, to dispel fear or exhibit a small triumph. We hardly notice we are forming them, as we sing them, often alone, half to ourselves. It is finding the words within that leads us to sing. It might be a hymn, a shard of rebellion, or a teenage prayer.

There it was: a full confession. Sherlock Holmes had done it again, and as I marveled at my devastating powers of deduction, I wished there had been two of me so I could have patted myself on the back. I know it sounds arrogant, but how often does one achieve a mental triumph of that magnitude? After listening to her speak just two words, I had nailed the whole bloody thing. If Watson had been there, he would have been shaking his head and muttering under his breath.

one meets with failure too often to exult in the occasional success.

There is no defeat in the cross. Only triumph is to be found there.

So your trials are not a sign that God has forgotten you or is being unfaithful to his promises. Rather, they stand as a reminder that he is committed to his grace and will not forsake it—it will complete its work.

Paul L. Maier

All life is three-to-one against, boychik, but you beat the odds.

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm...you will triumph." Paul Valery via Miriam Toews

In 1896 she became the first woman to

Llorad de gozo, pues ella se ha hecho dueña del Horizonte! Había una nota triunfal en su cántico, y también un pesar más profundo que el que podían experimentar los demás. Cuando los otros respondieron: «¡Vive; ella vive para siempre!», Hatshepsut rompió a llorar. Sintió entonces que el inmenso puño de su

Les victoires et les défaites font grandir et rayonner les gens. — Utau

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

The more difficult the VICTORY, The Greater the Happiness in WINING

shared witness against injustice could marshal triumphs that wars never could.

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At times there is a crushing before a crowning.

Often your greatest battles come before your greatest blessings.

I learned that if the battle is great, the blessing will be greater!

Great things can rise from fetid pits of wanton death and sorrow.

We didn't need light & shade, irony or humor. An iconic Daltrey bellow could convey an extrodinary range of human emotion; withering sadness, self pity, loneliness, abandonment, spiritual desperation, the loss of childhood, as well as the more obvious rage & frustration, joy & triumph.