Triumphs Quotes
232 quotes by 210 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.
— James Rachels
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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
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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
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Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
— Thomas Jefferson
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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
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Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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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
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Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.
— Marcel Proust
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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
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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
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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
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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities....
— Lord Acton
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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
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[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
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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
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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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