Triumph Quotations

But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault

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

It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.

Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.

The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age

The first bike that I bought was a Triumph 650. I really like the Triumph 650. I mean, of course, I've driven Harleys, and I think in 'Savage Seven' I drove an Indian, but - I really love Triumph.

The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.

A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.

However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.

Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high.

Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.

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.

Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves!

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.

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

Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

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

Our trials and our times of pain get the most recognition, but 'Straight Outta Compton' speaks to triumph. When it's doubtful, when nobody is on your side, when your back is against the wall, you triumph and make it through. Showing growth through movies promotes growth.

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

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

'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms.

My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.

Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.

It's so reassuring to have a woman heroine who triumphs with more than just what she has on the outside who has more to offer the world than just a pretty picture.

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. You did it just the way you had to do it, and that is what makes us us.

On Dec. 1, 1948, after the triumph of the revolution, which insured the final victory of the will of the people expressed through elections, President Jose Figueres abolished the army in my country.

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

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

We had the courage to face the superpowers that wanted a military triumph for each side they supported in Central America. We told them, 'No,' and presented a peace plan.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

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.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

If Republicans triumph in 2014, it will undoubtedly be as a result of Obamacare. In 2010, Republicans soared to historic victory because the much-maligned Tea Party spearheaded mass resistance to Obama's takeover of the healthcare industry.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them

Another foreign-policy triumph for Reagan was his 1984 visit to China, where he met for more than three hours with Mao Zedong before realizing that Mao was dead.

My feelings tried to control me on my run. I had to concentrate fully on forthcoming running and success. I wanted to triumph.

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.

We have scaled the heights of Mount Everest, dominated the Southeast Asian games, we have won international beauty titles, and of course punched our way to triumph in the boxing world. Our people compete and win every day in every imaginable job throughout the world.

There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train.

Joyful, all ye nations, rise. Join the triumph of the skies. With angelic hosts proclaim "Christ is born in Bethlehem!

The only difference between 'try' and 'triumph' is varying degrees of 'umph'

I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.

In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.

It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism.

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

Wisdom triumphs over chance.

And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.

[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.

Love is a fragile, corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond any comprehension Love is a weakness that once in a great while triumphs over strength.

To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.

We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.

We're here to proclaim a victory. We're here, not to wallow in tragedy, but to celebrate a triumph of the human spirit.

It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of indefinite combination, and binding it in the chains of number, to exalt it to rank amongst the exact. Triumphs like these are necessarily 'few and far between.'

If the United States doesn't lead then evil triumphs

We ought not to be in too much of a hurry here to speak piously of God’s will and guidance. It is obvious, and it should not be ignored, that it is your own very human wills that are at work here, celebrating their triumph; the course that you are taking at the outset is one that you have chosen for yourselves…

Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all barriers, a love that aboundeth in charity, a large-heartedness, tolerance, forgiveness and noble striving, a love that triumphs over all obstacles.

She doesn't do the investigative, breaking news stories. What Jane does best are the stories where she can really connect with people, real triumph over tragedy.

My teammates did their best to help but our plans were blown up in the final kilometers by escape attempts by cyclist of rival teams. Filippo is a good cyclist and deserved victory. I'm sorry for missing a second straight triumph here. I just lacked a bit of good luck.

I was so happy to finally meet the children and see the results of Toby's energy and vision. Their triumph through adversity is inspiring.

I wouldn't talk about a great triumph for democracy as a way to describe this.

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail

I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

I get enthusiastic when groups with widely different perspectives can work together and advance a policy that we think will add certainty and environmental protection. It maximizes treatment. It's a triumph of treatment over dilution and collaboration over confrontation.

had the respect of the hard-boiled editors and investigative reporters, but he managed to thrive and triumph in the more corporate environment of today.

It is not those innocent of evil who are fullest of the life of God, but those who in their own case have experienced the triumph over evil

It is a triumph for collaborative science, ... This is a landmark achievement.

On winter afternoons, from my office, there were sunsets across Manhattan when the smog itself shimmered and glowed. . . . Despite its difficulties, which become more obvious all the time, one was constantly put to the test by this city, which finally came down to its people; no other place in America had quite such people and they would not allow you to go stale; in the end they were its triumph and its reward.

Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right. I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. Things refuse to be mismanaged long.

I still have the Triumph Palm Beach I was given for Christmas when I was 11. By today's standards, it is heavy and slow, but was my pride and joy at the time.

There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.

For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most – it can seem as if the whole impulse of fashion has been to look maximally ridiculous. If one could be maximally uncomfortable as well, the triumph was all the greater.

The ads are compelling and make a statement about how valiant these human beings are. These stories are ones of hope and triumph over potential tragedy.

Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.

We are looking for a leader on and off the field of play. We are looking toward the 2007 World Cup and trying to find a man who can take on the challenge of leading the West Indies to a World Cup triumph at home.

This story lives in a very specific world - and yet the underlying scene of the triumph of the human spirit against all odds connects to any culture.

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

Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

When you meet triumph or disaster, treat these imposters alike.

(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.

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

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.