Triumphant Quotes

• Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.

  Phillips Brooks

  Easter, Strong, Dark

  Phillips Brooks, “An Easter Carol”

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• Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

  Og Mandino

  Wisdom, Adversity, Triumph

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• God is gone up on high with a triumphant noise.

  Charles Wesley

  Gone, Noise

  Charles Wesley, John Wesley, Samuel Wesley (1855). “The Wesleyan Psalter: a poetical version of nearly the whole Book of Psalms”, p.120

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• I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

  Walt Whitman

  Exercise, Past, America

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Complete Prose Works”, p.515, Walt Whitman

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• Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Success, Yesterday, Causes

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you.

  Jon Krakauer

  Memories, Real, Joy

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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  The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Thomas Paine (1817). “The Political Works of Thomas Paine: In Two Volumes”

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• O come all ye faithful, Joyful and triumphant,
  O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem.

  Frederick Oakeley

  Christmas, Faithful, Joyful

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• The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

  Mason Cooley

  Laughter, Literature, Sometimes

  "City Aphorisms: Sixth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1989.

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• I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Being Strong, Peace

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Ideas, Atheism, Watches

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• There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1845). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices, &c. &c”, p.92

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• It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive!

  Christopher McCandless

  Real, Joy, Alive

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• Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Truth

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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

  George Eliot

  Nature, Literature, Privacy

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2264, ShandonPress

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• Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically -- while simulating a triumphant march forward -- than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?

  Alexander Herzen

  Two, House, Done

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• Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!

  William Arthur Ward

  4th Of July, Generosity, Losing Yourself

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• Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Truth, Unconditional Love

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.84, Beacon Press

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• Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

  John Berger

  Death, Time, Character

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.751, Vintage

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• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  S. J. Perelman

  Love, Anniversary, Valentines Day

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• Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Funny, Marriage

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• I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

  Eugenio Montale

  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

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• The greater the struggle the more glorious the triumph

  Nick Vujicic

  Struggle, Triumph, Acumen

  Nick Vujicic (2012). “Unstoppable: The Incredible Power of Faith in Action”, p.62, WaterBrook

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  The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Witty

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• Art is the triumph over chaos.

  John Cheever

  Art, Triumph, Chaos

  John Cheever (1961). “Some Peoples, Places, and Things that Will Not Appear in My Next Novel”, New York : Harper

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