Triumphs Quotes
232 Triumphs quotes by 207 unique authors
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[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.
— Jared Diamond
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This business I'm in is different. It's special. The people around me feel like brothers and sisters. We hardly know each other, but we're that…
— Johnny Cash
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Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many…
— Neil Gaiman
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The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to…
— Oscar Wilde
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Whoever submits himself to a super-discipline can expect great triumphs.
— Samael Aun Weor
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This had been real: real in its flaws and uncertainties, real in its small triumphs, real in its compromises and understanding.
— Juliet Marillier
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Once there had been joy, but now there was only sadness, and it was not, he knew, alone the sadness of an empty house; it…
— Clifford D. Simak
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There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the…
— Oscar Wilde
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Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives…
— John Steinbeck
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When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?
— Gunter Grass
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No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert…
— Charles Spurgeon
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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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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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Tomorrow's trials concerned her more than yesterday's triumphs.
— George R. R. Martin
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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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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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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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We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up…
— Alain Badiou
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Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must…
— Orson Welles
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I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It…
— Billy Graham
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Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time.
— Eustace Haydon
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Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change…
— Karl Barth
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Love always triumphs over what we call death. That's why there's no need to grieve for our loved ones, because they continue to be loved…
— Paulo Coelho
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