Prevail Quotes

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
Walter Bagehot

Best, Others, State

That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar.
Robert Shea

Focus, Rather, Goes

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.
Clay Aiken

Acceptance, Different, Child

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.
Mary Astell

Truth, Strong, Sometime

As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.
Adam Clarke

God, Truth, Enemy

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.
Stefan Zweig

Work, Time, Power

But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.
Gerry Adams

Peace, Else, Process

We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.
King Hussein I

Respect, Opinion, Majority

The enemies of freedom will not prevail.
Bill Frist

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
Algernon Sidney

Power, Corruption, Liberty

By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.
Natan Sharansky

Peace, Society, Doubt

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.
Jose Marti

Together, Cannot, Achieve

Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.
John Thorn

Great, History, Game

I am confident that in the end freedom and democracy will prevail over terror and tyranny. We will win this war on terror - and when we do Americans, the British, Iraqis, and people around the world will be more secure.
Doc Hastings

War, Freedom, End

There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.
J. William Fulbright

Long, Through, Problems

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.
Stefan Zweig

History, Short, Reason

Shooting a television show can be very difficult and at times can really wear on you. If you keep reminding yourself that it is a job and you show up together as a team and as a whole, you can prevail.
David Boreanaz

Yourself, Job, Together

We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.
Theodore C. Sorensen

War, Long, Same

But I thought love would more than prevail.
David Gest

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
Guy Debord

Life, Everything, Away

I do see women voters shifting to the Republican Party and doing so significantly. And the issue that's doing this is the fear the federal government will prevail in making the Affordable Health Care Act permanent law and how that will hurt small businesses.
Cathy McMorris

Health, Women, Government

Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.
Robert Shea

Design, Another, Succeed

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.
Joseph Lancaster

Education, Children, May

Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.
Zach Wamp

Money, God, Legal

Our values and way of life will prevail - terrorism will not.
John Linder

Life, Values, Terrorism

It's a bummer sometimes but I always believe that great bands and great music always prevail.
Steve Brown

Music, Great, Sometimes

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.
Whittaker Chambers

Faith, Society, Sick

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.
Mercy Otis Warren

Revolution, American, Progress

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.
James S. Coleman

Teacher, Students, Striving

Over a period of time, I think the popular will in Iran will prevail.
Frank Carlucci

Time, Popular, Period

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