Triumph Quotes - Page 37

• When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Frustration, Power, Grace

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

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Bliss, Disaster, Treats

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• Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fear, Today, Cry

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• At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.

  Lord Acton

  Liberty, Minorities, Sincere

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.28, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

  Honore de Balzac

  Liberty, Able, Anarchy

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• The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

  Max Eastman

  Real, Equality, Liberty

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• [Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar astronomy and atomic physics are the only sciences which stand higher in popular estimation.

  G. H. Hardy

  May, Study, Physics

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• It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of indefinite combination, and binding it in the chains of number, to exalt it to rank amongst the exact. Triumphs like these are necessarily 'few and far between.'

  Charles Babbage

  Science, Discovery, Numbers

  Charles Babbage (1970). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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• It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The winds, the water, electricity, all aliens that in their wild form were dangerous, are now controlled by human will, and are made useful servants.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Science, Wind, Law

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• Justice has often been forged from fires of indignities and prejudices suffered. Our triumphs that celebrate the freedom of choice are hallowed. We have arrived upon another moment in history when 'We the People' becomes more inclusive, and our freedom more perfect.

  Arenda L. Wright Allen

  Gay, Fire, People

  "Read the Incredibly Moving Opinion From the Judge Who Just Struck Down Virginia’s Gay-Marriage Ban" by Mariah Blake, www.motherjones.com. February 14, 2014.

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• We all support the idea of a strong marriage, we all clearly like a good party. Call us hopeless romantics, call it the triumph of hope over experience - most of us think when people love each other and want to make that long-term commitment, that is a wonderful thing. So why would we stop a loving couple getting married just because they are gay?

  Yvette Cooper

  Strong, Couple, Party

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• Our greatest prejudice is against death. It spans age, gender and race. We spend immeasurable amounts of energy fighting an event that will eventually triumph. Though it is noble not to give in easily, the most alive people I've ever met are those who embrace their death. They love, laugh and live more fully.

  Andy Webster

  Death, Fighting, Acceptance

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• The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness!

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Joy, Delight, Madness

  Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery (1973). “Dante Gabriel Rossetti, painter and poet”

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• Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper.

  Arthur M. Wellington

  Science, Engineering, Bridges

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• We all have inner demons to fight, we call these demons, fear and hatred and anger. If you do not conquer them then a life of one hundred years is a tragedy. If you do, then a life of a single day can be a triumph.

  Yip Man

  Fighting, Years, Hatred

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• Since the hour when Christ despoiled Hades, men have danced in triumph over death.

  Gregory Thaumaturgus

  Men, Christianity, Hours

  Gregory Thaumaturgus (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Gregory Thaumaturgus (Annotated Edition)”, p.131, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If it were not for the Eucharist, if it were not for this marvelous manifestation of God's love, if it were not for this opportunity to place ourselves in the very real presence of God, if it were not for the sacrament that reminds us of His love, His suffering and His triumph, which indeed perpetuates for us His saving sacrifice on the cross, I am sure that I could never face the challenges of my life, my own weakness and sinfulness and my own need to reach out to the Living God.

  Theodore Edgar McCarrick

  Real, Sacrifice, Opportunity

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• There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be.

  J. B. Priestley

  Lonely, Science, Typewriters

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• Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.

  Tim McCanlies

  Love, Dream, Believe

  "Secondhand Lions". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.

  Will Durant

  Strong, War, Mean

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1944). “The Story of Civilization: Caesar and Christ, a history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325”

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• Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Death, Pain, Heart

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• Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's because in a country that prides itself on being egalitarian, sport is intellectually and socio-economically an equal playing field. In fact, the more humble your background, the better, the underdog-turned champion is a narrative that resonates powerfully. We're far less interested in the stories of our best doctors, writers, lawyers, engineers, teachers or social workers. Their triumphs do not capture our collective imaginations.

  Mia Freedman

  Sports, Country, Teacher

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• For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of success is increased by the obstacles which are to be surmounted. Let me triumph as a man or not at all.

  James A. Garfield

  Inspirational Life, Men, Honor

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• Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Military, War, Inspirational Life

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• I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Distance, Thinking, Sky

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.6, Open Road Media

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