Triumph Quotes - Page 27

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

  Clive James

  Habit

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.54, Pan Macmillan

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Genius, Common, Novel

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be. The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph, conspire to register the facts in his memory in a way that no mere information heard from a teacher, or read in a schoolbook, can be registered.

  Herbert Spencer

  Teacher, Memories, Learning

  Herbert Spencer (1861). “Education: intellectual, moral, and physical”, p.100

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• In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.

  Rupert Holmes

  Years, Aggravation, Careers

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• I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and dun, Steals, like a star, my Baby's face. .... I will take up my work once more, As if I had never laid it down. Who will dream that I ever wore, In triumph, motherhood's sacred crown? .... Nevertheless, the way is long, And tears leap up in the light of the sun. I'd give my world for a cradle-song, And a kiss from Baby?only one.

  Mary C. Ames

  Dream, Song, Baby

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• To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.

  James Joyce

  Fall

  James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.199, Collector's Library

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• Get a notebook, my young folks, a journal that will last through all time, and maybe the angels may quote from it for eternity. Begin today and write in it your goings and comings, your deepest thoughts, your achievements and your failures, your associations and your triumphs, your impressions and your testimonies.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Notebook, Writing, Angel

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• The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth - that billions of consumers in India & China will one day enjoy the lifestyles of Europeans and Americans - is as absurd & dangerous a fantasy as anything dreamt up by Al-Qaeda. It condemns the global environment to early destruction & looks set to create reservoirs of nihilistic rage & disappointment among hundreds of millions of have-nots - the bitter outcome of the universal triumph of Western Modernity, which turns the revenge of the East into something darkly ambiguous, and all its victories truly Pyrrhic.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Disappointment, Revenge, Growth

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• I'm a champion, so I turn tragedy to triumph.

  Kanye West

  Champion, Tragedy, Turns

  Song: Through the Wire

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• What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?

  Elie Wiesel

  Fall, Men, Allies

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.97, Schocken

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• Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Successful, Alliances, Found

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1920). “The wisdom of Disraeli: or, A great policy for a great party”

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• Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur?

  Henri Desgrange

  Cycling, Muscles, Artifice

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• You are never too young to lead and you should never doubt your capacity to triumph where others have not.

  Kofi Annan

  Doubt, Should, Capacity

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• We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack dogs. Beaten down, sickly, virtue has now been allowed to enter in all its tatters and sit in the corner, as long as it doesn't raise its voice.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Dog, Voice, Long

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• If our Lord ascends up to Heaven, ascend with Him. Be one of those angels who escort Him, or one of those who receive Him. Bid the gates be lifted up (cf. Ps. 24:7, 10), or be made higher, that they may receive Him, exalted after His Passion. Answer to those who are in doubt because He bears up with Him His body and the tokens of His Passion, which He had not when He came down, and who therefore inquire, 'Who is this King of Glory?' that it is the Lord strong and mighty, as in all things that He has done from time to time and does, so now in His battle and triumph for the sake of Mankind.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Strong, Kings

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• We are not to be alarmed when Satan hinders us, for it is proof that we are on the Lord's side and are doing the Lord's work. In His strength, we will win the victory and triumph over our adversary.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Winning, Victory, Sides

  "Morning & Evening".

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• Don't let your fear of failing triumph over the joy of participating.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Joy, Failing, Participating

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• Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Men, Imagination, Earth

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1941). “Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture: selected writings 1894-1940”

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• The true Church has never sounded out public expectations before launching her mission. Her leaders heard from God, they knew their Lord's will and did it. Their people followed them - sometimes to triumph, oftener to insults and public persecution - and their sufficient reward was the satisfaction of being right in a wrong world!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  People, Expectations, Leader

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• Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs in our time are not to bring human history to an abrupt, unpleasant and discreditable end.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Children, Father, Science

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• Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the same time identifies himself with the executor of the order-who, as such, enjoys also the triumph over obstacles, but thinks within himself that it was really his own will that overcame them. In this way the person exercising volition adds the feelings of delight of his successful executive instruments, the useful underwills or under-souls-indeed, our body is but a social structure composed of many souls-to his feelings of delight as commander.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Successful, Exercise, Thinking

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• I know who I am, and the thing about power for me is that it's connected to a source that's obviously greater than myself. Any time you can connect to the source and understand that that's where all of your energy, your creativity, your joy and your triumph come from, I consider that to be authentic power.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Creativity, Who I Am, Joy

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• Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

  William Shakespeare

  Yield, Mind, Yoke

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.504

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• Whatever your pleasure, belief, sorrow or triumph... we are all human and we are all constantly facing some sort of brokenness. Of the heart, of finances, of family, of dreams... it is real pain and it can’t be ignored.

  Hayley Williams

  Dream, Pain, Real

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• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Understanding, Way, Bliss

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