Quotes About Triumph

In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be foreordained, a series of brilliant actions and decisions that may in fact have been lucky or inadvertent, whereas failures illuminate paths and pitfalls to be avoided.

Richard Hough

As Rilke put it, "When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.

Say I told you so. They're the four most satisfying words in the English language. You could rupture something trying to keep them inside you.

Rick Mofina

No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero. - Poseidon

Dude. Jason gave Percy a bear hug. Back from Tartarus! Leo whooped. That's my peeps!

YEAH! WHO DIED? WHO CAME BACK? WHO'S YOUR FREAKIN' SUPERSIZED McSHIZZLE NOW, BABY? WOOOOOOOO!

Conquer or die.

They know they've won," Carter guessed. "They're making a show of it." "Yes," Amos said. "Well, let's blow up the boats or something!" I said. Amos looked at me. "Is that your strategy, honestly?

I was a fight to the death, and I felt great.

Leo whooped so loudly they probably heard him in China. "YEAH! WHO DIED? WHO CAME BACK? WHO'S YOUR FREAKIN' SUPERSIZED McSHIZZLE NOW, BABY? Woooooooo!

Leo tried to remember what had happened. He was pretty sure he had defeated Gaia…

SWEEP!' THe Titan grinned with delight and did a victory dance.'Sweep, sweep, sweep!

Time was a thief and Jackson felt he gained a small triumph by stealing back some of the early hours

I know that human triumph is never fully redemptive.

the story of an unlikely hero

But perhaps you do not understand. I was crippled, crippled by an elephant that came through the roof - Madam LaVaughn

He had done it. He had taken hold

Above all else, do not fear to climb the victory tower.

Fairy tales ... give us hope that we can somehow be saved, rescued, healed. Transformed in some way for the better. As we travel with the fairy tale protagonist through the dark and dangerous forest, as we suffer with them and triumph with them, we follow them back into the brightness of a world renewed. Fairy tales are an instruction manual for psychological healing.

Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.

We've found it!

Hail to St. Aegolius Our Alma Mater. Hail, our song we raise in praise of thee Long in the memory of every loyal owl Thy splendid banner emblazoned be. Now to thy golden talons Homage we're bringing. Guiding symbol of our hopes and fears Hark to the cries of eternal praises ringing Long may we triumph in the coming years. - The Owls of St. Aegolius