Triumphant Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Funny, Marriage

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Each day will be triumphant only when your smiles bring forth smiles from others.

  Og Mandino

  Your Smile, Each Day

  "The Greatest Salesman in the World". Book by Og Mandino. Chapter 14: "The Scroll Marked VII," p. 86, 1986.

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• No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Facts, He Man

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.22, RosettaBooks

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• While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is "different," what is "not itself"; and this No is its creative deed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Creative, Different, Noble

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.472, Modern Library

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• As we are now engaged in this contest, all my wishes, all my desires and all the energies of my hand and heart will be given to the cause of my state. Whether we have the right of secession or revolution, I want to see my state triumphant.

  Jubal Early

  War, Heart, Hands

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• It's triumphant for someone to wake up to life. I feel a tremendous sense of liberation. You want to be able to use both your intuitive side and your go-get-'em side with no blame.

  Meg Ryan

  Intuition, Wake Up, Ems

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• In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe as we move through a mildly good cocktail party, picking up the good bits of food or conversation, bearing with the rest, going home when it comes to seem the reasonable thing to do. Art, at those moments when it feels most like art -- when we feel most alive, most alert, most triumphant -- is less like a cocktail party than a tank full of sharks.

  John Gardner

  Art, Moving, Home

  John Gardner (2010). “The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers”, p.35, Vintage

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• It's the struggle that makes you triumphant.

  Michelle Akers

  Struggle

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• Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Purpose, Use

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.264, Random House

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• You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.

  Roger Kahn

  Falling In Love, Team, May

  Roger Kahn (1973). “The Boys of Summer”, Signet

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• [Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego's immolation. How beautiful it all seemed at the time of the Enlightenment, that man triumphant would bring to pass that earthly paradise whose groves of academe would ensure the realization forever of peace, plenty, and beatitude in practice. But what a nightmare of wars, famines, and folly was to result therefrom.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Beautiful, War, Men

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• We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb.

  Shane Claiborne

  Eagles, Rome, Faithful

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.149, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Sorry, World, Unjust

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.703, Oxford University Press

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