Quotes About Triumph

One cultivates one's life, one's friends, one's means, one's hopes. One goes from place to place, from triumph to triumph, in search of ambition and ambition's remedy as though in flight across some imagined map, the subject of a conversation in a comfortable English room.

History is full of lessons about the redemption of Lost Causes.

If people bring so much courage to the world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them

He took all his pain and what was left of his strength and his long gone pride and he put it against the fish's agony and the fish came over onto his side and swam gently on his side, his bill almost touching the planking of the skiff and started to pass the boat, long, deep, wide, silver and barred with purple and interminable in the water.

I had hoped for something. Defeat? No. Something more. There isn't anything more. Except victory. It may be worse.

El hombre no está hecho para la derrota. Al hombre se le puede destruir, pero no derrotar.

The man isn't born for defeats.He can fall from grace,but he cannot be defeated.

We, in games, are not fascinated by death, its nearness and its avoidance. We are fascinated by victory and we replace the avoidance of death by the avoidance of defeat.

Con ng??i sinh ra không ph?i ?? th?t b?i. Con ng??i có th? b? h?y di?t ch? không th? b? khu?t ph?c.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

Difficulties are just things to overcome.

That's war: very high in the morning and very low in the evening: from triumph to failure is only one step.

True heroism consists of being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge to the combat.' Napoleon on board HMS Northumberland, 1815

Napoleon's crowning of himself was the ultimate triumph of the self-made man, and in one way a defining moment of the Enlightenment. It was also fundamentally honest: he had indeed got there through his own efforts. It is possible that he later regretted doing it, however, because of the vaulting egoism it suggested.

Winning is not enough if one doesn't take advantage of success.

The Jabberwocky': 'Calloo! Callay! O frabjous day! And so he chortled in his joy.

I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired.

He accepted it, walked over to the monster, and stabbed it a dozen times. "Dead," he pronounced, and walked back over.

The sunrise, however, represents another victory in the fight for life, a new day, the continuation of existence.

O bem e o justo devem triunfar, o mal, recebeu um castigo exemplar e o amor, unir os amantes até a morte.

He refers to a defeat as if it came from God, but a victory as if it came from himself.

The victim is always morally superior to the master; that is the victim's ambivalent triumph. That is why there have been so few notoriously wicked women in comparison to the number of notoriously wicked men; our victim status ensures that we rarely have the opportunity.

The triumph of the will recreates, as its Utopia, the world of early childhood, and that is a world of nightmare, impotence and fear, in which the child fantasises, out of its own powerlessness, an absolute supremacy.

I could see that one of them had a bloody scratch down his cheek. Good for Kestrel!