Disaster Quote by Rudyard Kipling

When you meet triumph or disaster, treat these imposters alike.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Both triumph and disaster are impostors.

— Rudyard Kipling

Triumph cannot help being cruel.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

I love victory, but I love not triumph.

— Sophie Swetchine

I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.

— Woodrow Wilson

All triumph is offensive. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

— Edwin Mamerto

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

— B. C. Forbes

IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.

— Ambrose Bierce

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.

— Frank Herbert

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

— Thomas Paine

In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.

— Shepard Smith