Quotes About Triumph

When the inhabitants of a free city have overcome the enemy in the field, it is not easy to express the pleasure which they feel in putting their opponents to flight, as well as in pursuing and making havoc of them.

Dost ve dü?man herkes bilsin ki kazanaca??z. Mutlaka kazanaca??z!

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

The time was ordinary, 24 seconds, but the victory was historic. From that crowded little red house in Clarksville, out of an extended family of twenty-two kids, from a childhood of illness and leg braces, out of a small historically black college that had no scholarships, from a country where she could be hailed as a heroine and yet denied lunch at a counter, Skeeter had become golden, sweeping the sprints in Rome.

The speaker points out the nature of the triumphal procession in 2 Corinthians 2:16-17. He shows that to the victors the aroma of the triumphal procession was sweet but that to the captured prisoners it represented an impending death. 5000 prisoners were necessary for a triumphal procession, and, by contrast, God drew 5000 to Himself in Acts 2.

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.

It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.

Carnegie survived and triumphed in an environment rife with cronyism and corruption. Much of the capital invested in his iron and steel companies was derived from business activities that might be today, but were not at the time, regarded as immoral

Rejoice, heavenly powers! Sing, choirs of angels! Exalt, all creation around God's throne! Jesus Christ, our King, is risen! Sound the trumpet of salvation! Rejoice, O Earth, in shining splendor, Radiant in the brightness of your King! Christ has conquered! Glory fills you! Darkness vanishes for ever! Amen. —EXSULTET (6TH C.)

You get nothing for coming second, son. Because if you are second, you are nothing. You are nowhere – First is first. Second is nowhere.

One day they won. The next day they lost.

Our agony was the government's triumph.

In a series of rulings known as the Marshall Trilogy, the court affirmed the rights of the Cherokee and ruled the removal of Indians unlawful. Andrew Jackson did it anyway.

David Foster Wallace believed that 'high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty.' They are also, it is sad to say, an arena for the darker aspects of human nature.

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

It turns out that dying in a blaze of glory is surprisingly easy, but living on, after your moment of triumph, is the hardest thing in the world.

Ali, of course, hasn't whipped every obstacle in his life. Only enough of them that we remember him as having done so.

Many men have triumphantly exploited a minuscule talent through life only to ruin themselves by muffing their deaths. Missing their proper exit cues they have hung around like dreary guests at a party, repeating themselves until it is made clear to all how little they ever had to say.

O'Captain, My Captain.

Evil triumphs when good men refuse to call it evil

And if we succeed... If we somehow accomplish this thing that seems so impossible, it will be the most glorious victory imaginable. The Fourth of July will no longer be known only as an American holiday, but as the day when all the nations of the earth stood shoulder to shoulder and shouted: 'We will not lay down and die. We will live on! We will survive!' Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!

There will be much darkness ahead—but, in the end, there will be light.

I already won.

One day the people that didn't believe in you, will tell everyone how they met you.