Quotes About Triumphs

To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.

Both our triumphs and our tragedies are defined as much by how we perceive as by what we do.

To survive or to perish in denial, were equal triumphs, were two fronts in a long battle.

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

Heroism doesn't always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history. Sometimes a chicken can save a man's life.

Great victories are always preceded by great tests.

I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. - Earl Warren

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

Many more Nazi battlefield triumphs lay ahead, but some generals privy to their Führer's intentions already understood the Third Reich's fundamental difficulty: anything less than hemispheric domination threatened disaster; yet Germany's military and economic capability to achieve this remained questionable.

This self-image is our own conception of the "sort of person I am." It has been built up from our own beliefs about ourselves. But most of these beliefs about ourselves have unconsciously been formed from our past experiences, our successes and failures, our humiliations, our triumphs, and the way other people have reacted to us, especially in early childhood.

Great passions may either bring great victories or great sorrows! In both cases, it is always a great privilege to have great passions!

Para comprender el estado de la humanidad puede que baste con saber que la mayoría de los grandes triunfos y grandes catástrofes de la historia no se deben a que las personas son buenas en esencia o malas en esencia, sino a que las personas son en esencia personas.

The progressive's cardinal syllogism is simply beautiful: the best always triumphs, because what triumphs is called the best.

The proper perspective to maintain is that we are here for only one purpose—to be captives marching in the procession of Christ's triumphs.

The proper perspective to maintain is that we are here for only one purpose—to be captives marching in the procession of Christ's triumphs. We are not on display in God's showcase—we are here to exhibit only one thing—the "captivity [of our lives] to the obedience of Christ" (2 Corinthians 10:5). How small all the other perspectives are!