Triumph Quotes
917 quotes by 704 authors
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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
— Oscar Wilde
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If abuses are destroyed, we must destroy them. If slaves are freed, we must free them. If new truths are discovered, we must discover them.…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most – it can seem…
— Bill Bryson
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Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph,…
— Thomas Cahill
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I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
— Max Beerbohm
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That is what worship is all about. It is the glad shout of praise that arises to God the creator and God the rescuer from…
— N. T. Wright
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Shane: "Score," he said, and raised the crowbar in triumph. "Who's your daddy?" - Black Dawn
— Rachel Caine
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Tomorrow's trials concerned her more than yesterday's triumphs.
— George R. R. Martin
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In between your failure-tree And your triumph-tree, The tree that is growing Is known as your patience-tree.
— Sri Chinmoy
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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth…
— John Stuart Mill
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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness…
— Albert Pike
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I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from the God whom…
— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in…
— Eric Ambler
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Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters triumphs challenges impossible…
— Richard Bach
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Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.
— Smith Wigglesworth
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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.
— Truman Capote
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My God", he whispered. What have I done to her? He thought, humbled. The spell was broken, but it wasn't sealed, and her soul was…
— Kim Harrison
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