Quotes About Triumph

When you stand on the victory stand, you must be able to ask yourself: 'Did I win this medal?'

I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.

Let's win one for the Gipper.

Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle.

In terms of history and sports, I don't think people will forget.

I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.

From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.

Winning is a great deodorant.

When youre on top, youre on top.

I am going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.

We had a lot of adversity, but we found a way.

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

Glory, glory, hallelujah! His soul is marching on!

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

The triumph of humanism is the defeat of humanity.

This is, perhaps, the most difficult of all mortifications to achieve a 'holy indifference' to the temporal success or failure of the cause to which one has devoted one's best energies. If it triumphs, well and good; and if it meets defeat, that also is well and good, if only in ways that, to a limited and timebound mind, are here and now entirely incomprehensible.

la alambrada seguía ininterrumpidamente la línea recta, el símbolo geométrico del propósito humano triunfante.

A War Memorial was, in its very nature, a work dedicated to God. It was a token of thankfulness that the first stage in the culminating world–war had been crowned by the triumph of righteousness; it was at the same time a visibly embodied supplication that God might not long delay the Advent which alone could bring the final peace.

No cree usted que el dolor es cien veces más intolerable cuando nos rodea el amor y el triunfo, cuando la sangre es joven, y todo a nuestro alrededor se viste de rosas?

Hubiérase dicho que un dolor supremo lo hacía superior a los temores ordinarios.

Man does not steal, he conquers

At some stage, of course, you're going to discover that good does not always triumph and that evil can very easily win the battle; I hope, though, that when that truth dawns you will be old enough and strong enough to make the deliberate effort not to believe it. Because only if we pretend that it is not true can we steel ourselves to fight against it—like those young men in the Spitfires who did not stop to consider the impossible, daunting odds and went up nonetheless.