Triumph quotes

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

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

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

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life – I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

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.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

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

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

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

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

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

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

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.