Triumph Quotes
It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be.
And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades.
The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.
We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.
To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.
One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.
It's a real triumph taking a painting out from a pit-hole with a loose and open approach. Some aspects in its favour are those strange accidents that can produce amazing results.
Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit.
Survival is not so much about the body, but rather it is about the triumph of the human spirit.
The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for thinking.
Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.
In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.
In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing.
The triumph of economic globalization has inspired a wave of techno-savvy investigative activists who are as globally minded as the corporations they track.
I'm proud of my triumphs. I've dreamed of being world champion, I've had some difficult times and they've made me value the good times.
...love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day.
Life is not all about profundity. Life is about little things that piss you off, little triumphs, little defeats. So, you can't spend all your time being profound.
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.
He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.
We're starting to look at a new way of being, and I know ultimately that it will triumph. I think it's coming soon, too.
Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.
Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.
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.
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
As a parent, I want my kids to have an optimistic outlook, and one that has hope, and that makes sense, where good does triumph over evil and it's not cynical, and it's not snarky.
I declare today for the world to hear that the West will never, ever be broken. Our values will prevail. Our people will thrive. And our civilization will triumph.
Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.
Other countries may triumph at global conferences where world representatives vote with their hands. But America seems to win whenever the world's people have an opportunity to vote with their feet.
The true hero is flawed. The true test of a champion is not whether he can triumph, but whether he can overcome obstacles - preferably of his own making - in order to triumph.
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?
For ever so our thoughtful hearts repeatOn fields of triumph dirges of defeat;And still we turn on gala-days to treadAmong the rustling memories of the dead.
Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who they are and they will offer you a wallet or a child.