Triumph Quotes

Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in such a way, as if we in Western Europe are also going to have that help.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

‘Triumph over tragedy‘ – how pathetic! I think people are generally freaked out that I’m multifaceted. You don’t hear people saying, ‘Gwyneth Paltrow won an Oscar – and she’s blonde!’

We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.

The Washingtonian said it shouldn’t be built. The gallery‘s East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.

I think you have to take everything that looks like a blow and turn it into a triumph. This is where my energy comes from: I just won’t be licked.

In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ.

If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when actually we are choking on spite. We are cordial and attentive to crashing bores.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

My favourite Heineken Cup memory as a player was undoubtedly sharing in Wasps‘ final triumph in 2007.

If a man has talent and can’t use it, he’s failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

The great gift of Easter is hope – Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

Even if there are people around to help you, you don’t suffer with an audience; you don’t triumph with an audience.

The image of Stephen Hawking – who has died aged 76 – in his motorised wheelchair, with head contorted slightly to one side and hands crossed over to work the controls, caught the public imagination as a true symbol of the triumph of mind over matter.

Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That’s one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.

When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate.

If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.

The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

My parents always swore that in my childhood they had to let me win at board games. If, by the lucky stroke of the plastic wheel, my father would accidentally beat me at Candy Land, I would fly into fits of bawling that I’m told would last for hours. If I couldn’t triumph, I didn’t want to play.

For generations, the Jewish and African-American communities have stood together, helping each other overcome their greatest challenges and triumph in the face of sweeping discrimination, all while securing a brighter future for all of our children.

Never mess with other people’s kids. You will never win. It’s the child’s word against yours and they have parental reinforcements as back-up. You just can’t triumph.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

All reality TV shows are a triumph of voyeurism. They choose contestants who are ill-suited and slightly freakish.

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

The world is yet in its infancy; the gracious designs of God are yet hardly developed. Glorious things are spoken of Zion, the city of our God. She is yet to triumph and become the joy and glory of the whole earth.

If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth, I for one should only rejoice in such a divine triumph of the sacrificial idea in history; for it would mean the humanization of mankind.

People are really suffering these days. There’s a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.