Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juvenal

Wisdom triumphs over chance.

Jamaica Kincaid

It was hollow, my triumph, I could feel that, but I held on to it just the same.

Iris Murdoch

There is no triumph of good, and if there were it would not be a triumph of good.

George Eliot

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

Kathie Lee Gifford

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

Michel Houellebecq

The triumph of vegetation is total.

Patricia McCormick

Simply to endure is to triumph.

Publilius Syrus

He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of triumph.

Gunter Grass

When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?

Marcel Proust

Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.

John Keble

Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain.

Lisa Gansky

Access to goods, services & talent triumphs over ownership

Hugo Chavez

Your triumph is the triumph of all of Venezuela,

Steve Hockensmith

Failure is but the longer road to triumph.

Tony Evans

God can take your most monstrous failures and turn them into triumphs such as you never could imagine.

T. D. Jakes

Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Triumph cannot help being cruel.

Emma Goldman

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

Gabrielle Roy

Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.

John Dryden

The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted.

Joanna Baillie

This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life, and have never yet overtaken.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.

Clive James

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

Abraham Cowley

Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

Ameen Rihani

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

Rudyard Kipling

Both triumph and disaster are impostors.

Robertson Davies

Our forebears are deserving of tribute for one indisputable reason, if for no other: without them we should not be here. Let us recognize that we are not the ultimate triumph but rather we are beads on a string. Let us behave with decency to the beads that were strung before us and hope modestly that the beads that come after us will not hold us of no account simply because we are dead.

David Byrne

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

Virgil

Persistent work triumphs.

Voltaire

It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

Winston Churchill

The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.