Triumphs Quotes

232 quotes by 210 authors

It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all… — Glenn Close
Somebody asked me earlier if I thought it was really important to tell stories about women's struggles. And I said yes, but at the same… — Diablo Cody
Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain,… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding. — James Rachels
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling… — Laozi
Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive and introspective. It… — P.G. Wodehouse
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. — Thomas Jefferson
Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures… — Anne Lamott
Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its rights. It considers… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons. — Marcel Proust
We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We… — Rose Macaulay
Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or excitement must be… — Charles Spurgeon
When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and… — Charles Caleb Colton
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.... — Lord Acton
Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions. — Milton Friedman
[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it… — G. H. Hardy
It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of indefinite combination, and… — Charles Babbage
And I realized that sometimes the greatest triumphs in your life come in on little cat feet and sit on silent haunches and it's up… — Sally Field

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