“All hail the underdog; the triumph is your crown. Blessed are the meek and the egoless, for they inherit the divine power. [14]” — Unathi Magubeni Copy Share Image
The traits in career politicians the public detests most are produced when ego triumphs over principle. — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance. — Robert Haugen Copy Share Image
'The Taking' is the closest thing to a 'concept' record that I have ever been involved with. Pain, loss, triumph, and redemption.… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
You are never too young to lead and you should never doubt your capacity to triumph where others have not. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
As the sun fell below the horizon, Sir Luckless emerged from the waters with the glory of his triumph upon him, and… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
There is a certain sort of man whose doom in the world is disappointment, who excels in it, and whose luckless triumphs… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Many people say they're looking for love, yet they're actually committed to never finding it. Many people would really rather not know… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
My parents always swore that in my childhood they had to let me win at board games. If, by the lucky stroke… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It's a new day! Let go of old issues, relationships, or apprehensions that are holding you back. Decide to move forward using… — Les Brown Copy Share Image
We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always… — William E. Burrows Copy Share Image
God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs. — Joseph Stowell Copy Share Image
Animals are unpredictable things, and so our life is unpredictable. It's a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you've got… — James Herriot Copy Share Image
I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior… — John Piper Copy Share Image
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
It is necessary to be strong, in order to become great: that is our duty. Life is a struggle, which we cannot… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
You wouldn't want to see a movie where the bad guys triumph over the good guys all the time. You'd get bummed… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
Don't be concerned who is watching you. The triumphs and merits of others belong to them - as do yours to you.… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Question: Why does life have to feel like such a struggle at times? Answer: Because without the struggle, the triumphs wouldn't taste… — Connor Franta Copy Share Image
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Love is a fragile, corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond any comprehension Love… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
“No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive.… — John Connolly Copy Share Image