Quotes About Triumph

Fern Michaels

No hay mayor fatuidad que creerse inmortal en la memoria frágil de los hombres. Gloria al olvido, que siempre triunfa.

I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.

In modern life the world belongs to the stupid, the insensitive and the disturbed. The right to live and triumph is today earned with the same qualifications one requires to be interned in a madhouse: amorality, hypomania and an incapacity for thought.

Na vida de hoje, o mundo só pertence aos estúpidos, aos insensíveis e aos agitados. O direito a viver e a triunfar conquista-se hoje quase pelos mesmos processos por que se conquista o internamento num manicómio: a incapacidade de pensar, a amoralidade e a hiperexcitação.

3. (…) En la vida de hoy, el mundo sólo pertenece a los estúpidos, a los insensibles y a los agitados. El derecho a vivir y a triunfar se conquista hoy con los mismos procedimientos con que se conquista el internamiento en un manicomio: la incapacidad de pensar, la amoralidad y la hiperexcitación. —Libro del Desasosiego, Fernando Pessoa—

Nella vita odierna il mondo appartiene agli stolti, agli indifferenti e agli attivisti. Oggi il diritto di vivere e di trionfare si ottiene praticamente con gli stessi requisiti con cui si ottiene il ricovero in un manicomio: l'incapacità di pensare, l'amoralità e l'eccessiva agitazione.

Compra-se a glória com desgraça.

Death is Life's triumph!

The right to live and triumph is today earned with the same qualifications one requires to be interned in a madhouse: amorality, hypomania and an incapacity for thought.

I prefer to fail having known the beauty of flowers than to triumph in a wilderness, for triumph is the blindness of the soul left alone with its own worthlessness.

En la vida actual, el mundo sólo pertenece a los estúpidos, los insensibles y los agitados. El derecho a vivir y triunfar se conquista hoy casi a través de los mismos procedimientos con los que se conquista el internamiento en un manicomio: la incapacidad de pensar, la amoralidad y la hiperexcitación.

Today the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. Today the right to live and triumph is awarded on virtually the same basis as admission into an insane asylum: an inability to think, amorality, and nervous excitability. 176

To conform is to submit and to win is to conform, to be beaten. That is why all victories are essentially vulgar.

I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.

I'm not a big fan of fame; I'm a big fan of success.

I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.

I love being the favourite of every competition.

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.

Whenever there's something you've done that everybody and their mother said you couldn't do, and it was like an impossible feat, of course, it's awesome.

For me, to be part of 'Maximum' is another feather in my cap.

If we win, everybody will feel good. If we lose, all the other things just don't really matter. Winning is what matters to me.

It feels great to have a #1 album.

The first championship in 2005 will always be the most special but winning this fifth one was by far my best performance because of the strength of the field.