Quotes About Triumph

Eventually, all of us will be called upon to do the thing that cannot be done.

Maximus turned to the house, thinking. He had no idea how he would do it yet, but he meant to best her. He'd show her that he was the master, and when she'd admitted his victory… well, then he'd have her. And he'd hold her, by God. His huntress. His goddess.

Did Appomattox signify the triumph of right over wrong or of might over right?

It cannot be right to be the slave of one's household gods, and I protest that if my furniture ever annoyed me by wanting to be dusted when I wanted to be doing something else, and there was no one to do the dusting for me, I would cast it all into the nearest bonfire and sit and warm my toes at the flames with great contentment, triumphantly selling my dusters to the very next pedlar who was weak enough to buy them. Parsons

If you don't fight, you can't win.

They looked up against the darkening sky and saw the fog curling over the edge of the ridges, perhaps 2,000 feet above them—and they felt that special kind of pride of a person who in a foolish moment accepts an impossible dare—then pulls it off to perfection.

Fortitudine vincimus—"By endurance we conquer.

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Here now in his triumph where all things falter, Stretched out on the spoils that his own hand spread, As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.

One, who adopts patience, will never be deprived of success though it may take a long time to reach him.

So fair a victor, how can I help but be conquered.

Bliss is a beautiful destination, but you can often only reach its shores after a turning point. It's as if the universe is testing you to be sure you are strong enough to make it through the murky waters, not just the serene ones, so that you can move to a new and unknown place in yourself.

Or perhaps one's foes always seemed smaller once they had been defeated.

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.

the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could be the bottom of the valley, the beginning of the long climb up the far slope, and when a man had once begun that climb he never looked back to that other side.

Daughter of the rock and the gray sea you fill all hearts with triumph, tortoise shell of the sea.

Yall have to show me the fool who says dreams don't come true cause they do I LOVE YOU PHILIDELPHIA

It would be some joke to win through all these perils, only to drop dead of exhaustion within sight of Haven.

If we always take the path of least resistance, if we embrace inertia, if we never leap, if we never accept accountability for our choices, how can we find any triumph in our victories or any remorse in our losses?

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke winning it twice proves you are the best.

O Lord! If you give us victory, I shall see that no enemy warrior is left alive until their river runs with their blood!

A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.