Triumph Quotes

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
Vladimir Nabokov

Power, Art, Play

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!
Stevie Wonder

Life, Struggle, Defeat

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.
Marquis de Sade

Philosophy, Light, Achieve

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
Irving Babbitt

Sunday, Lazy, Perfect

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When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
Pierre Corneille

Fight, Glory, Peril

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary.
David Byrne

Become, Place, Afraid

Television is the triumph of machine over people.
Fred Allen

Television, Machine

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
Pat Robertson

Great, God, Evil

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.
Wilma Rudolph

The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.
Thomas Frank

Great, Business, Death

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.
Kathie Lee Gifford

Find, Same, Learn

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck

Truth, Die, Light

I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
Wendell L. Wilkie

Rather, Lose, Fail

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.
Robert Browning

Forward, Sleep, Fight

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Love, Truth, Endure

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
Pierre Corneille

Conquer, Danger, Glory

When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.
Pierre Corneille

Conquer, Danger, Glory

To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille

Glory, Peril, Vanquish

Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?
Christopher Marlowe

Through, Brave, King

If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.
Brian Moore

Company, Misery, Audience

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
Herbert Hoover

Today, America, Poverty

And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike.
James Wolcott

Book, Team, Comedy

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
Robert Browning

Why, Temptation, Meet

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
Mao Zedong

History, Struggle, Others

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.
Tony Snow

Love, Music, Politics

Conquer, but don't triumph.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.
Henry Anatole Grunwald

Greatest, Speak, While

Now I am near to the getting of my crown, which shall be sure; for I bless the Lord, and desire all of you to bless Him that He hath brought me here, and makes me triumph over devils, and men, and sin: they shall wound me no more.
Donald Cargill

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
Maggie Kuhn

Age, Strength, Old

The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.
Jack White

Music, Struggle, Black

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