Triumphs Quotes
232 Triumphs quotes by 207 unique authors
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So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense…
— Tom Robbins
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It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people…
— Neil Gaiman
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Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may…
— Arthur Golden
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There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble…
— Victor Hugo
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It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.
— John Steinbeck
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Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf,…
— Virginia Woolf
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Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False…
— Paulo Coelho
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The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily…
— Francis Bacon
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Love is a fragile, corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond any comprehension Love is a weakness…
— Brent Weeks
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I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician on the radio…
— Aravind Adiga
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I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and…
— Charles Dickens
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Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment,…
— Jodi Picoult
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...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within,…
— James A. Baldwin
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Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally…
— Terry Pratchett
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She loved Bram in a clear-eyed way she’d never loved her ex-husband, no rose-colored glasses or mindless giddiness, no Cinderella fantasies or false certainty that…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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It is what we see when we imagine what the afterlife must be like: our happiest triumphs, our most sincere moments, stolen from the seam…
— Joe Meno
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The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.
— Nelson Mandela
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Life is still life. It’s still tough, complicated, and more than a little messy, with lessons to be learned, mistakes to be made, triumphs and…
— Alyson Noel
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A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.
— May Sarton
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The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and…
— Stephen King
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You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you…
— Connie Willis
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She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and…
— James M. Cain
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