Triumph Quotes
Sad Quotes about Triumph

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid,
but he who conquers that fear.
- Nelson Mandela

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Samuel Johnson [also attributed to Oscar Wilde]

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
- Thomas Paine

The great gift of Easter is hope -
Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God,
in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love,
which nothing can shake.
- Basil C. Hume

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle
than the courage of a final moment;
but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
- John F. Kennedy

My mother was the influence in my life.
She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate
triumph of justice and hard work.
She believed passionately in education.
- John H. Johnson

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful,
kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
- Amos Bronson Alcott

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church.
He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
- Billy Sunday

But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta,
lest we aggravate our own condemnation.
- Thomas Day

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to
get along with those who do not possess it.
- Voltaire

In all my years of performing, no audience member has
ever actually assaulted me.
I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.
- Rupert Holmes

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind,
and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
- Karel Capek

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel,
the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was
the domestication of the human male.
- Max Lerner

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is
for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

The human spirit needs to accomplish,
to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
- Ben Stein

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism,
a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what
the country needed to hear during times of crisis,
tragedy and triumph.
- Tom Brokaw

A dream will always triumph over reality,
once it is given the chance.
- Stanislaw Lem

For me, the vast marvel is to be alive.
For man, or for flowers or beast or bird,
the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.
- Al Purdy

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts,
choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it,
we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.
- Frank Moore Colby

The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism
alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
- Frederica Montseny

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
- Og Mandino

Children love and want to be loved and they very much
prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure.
Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
- Erik Erikson

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil,
and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
- Margaret Thatcher

Survival is triumph enough.
- Harry Crews

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

I know in my heart that man is good.
That what is right will always eventually triumph.
And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
- Ronald Reagan

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator.
The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
- Henri Bergson

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

What happens when good people are put into an evil
place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate
their past history and morality?
- Philip Zimbardo

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does
not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler
than the forces which destroy him.
- George Orwell

The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy.
- Mark Spitz

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.
- Mark Skousen

For man, as for flower and beast and bird,
the supreme triumph is to be most vividly,
most perfectly alive.
- David Herbert Lawrence

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

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief,
and constructed at the brink of despair,
contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph
over the powers of darkness.
- Isaac Mayer Wise

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

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status;
it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over
chaos and convert it to order.
- Rowan D. Williams

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty,
many souls must be trampled.
- Hunter S. Thompson

Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high.
- Cynthia Weil

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

While trying to protect the republic,
the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph.
In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things,
the more they go wrong.
- Edward Hall

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

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method,
and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
- Hilaire Belloc

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph.
Self-realization demands very great struggle.
- Swami Sivananda

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

The first phase of American political history was characterized
by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans,
and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.
- Herbert Croly

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

One likes people much better when they're battered
down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
- Virginia Woolf

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

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

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

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

People are really suffering these days.
There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal
despair as they wonder what are they working for.
- Laurie Anderson

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even,
the greatest business triumph would be dull,
routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
- J. Paul Getty

Not in the clamor of the crowded street,
not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Art is the triumph over chaos.
- John Cheever

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

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles,
which knows triumph.
- William Butler Yeats

It has been said that Poland is dead,
exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.
- Henryk Sienkiewicz

It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil,
it's that the point spread is too small.
- Bob Thaves

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

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat.
It is zero-sum.
- Bruce Jackson

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

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.
- Pierre de Coubertin