Triumph Quotes - Page 39

• In all I wish, how happy should I be,
  Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee?
  So weak thou art that fools thy power despise;
  And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

  Jonathan Swift

  Life, Wise, Art

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The works of Jonathan Swift, containing papers not hitherto publ. With memoir of the author by T. Roscoe”, p.682

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• The triumph of economic globalization has inspired a wave of techno-savvy investigative activists who are as globally minded as the corporations they track.

  Naomi Klein

  Track, Economic Globalization, Politics

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• One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Modern, Mathematics

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.46, 谷月社

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• An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being...that is the true glory of sport.

  Aimee Mullins

  Success, Sports, Teamwork

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• For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who, descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished dogs-as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers up bloody sacrifices, practices infanticide without remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions.

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Sacrifice, Order

  The Descent of Man ch. 21 (1871)

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• The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to hold back the wheel of history, eventually revolution will take place and will inevitably triumph.

  Mao Zedong

  Independent, Men, Law

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.19, Lulu.com

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• The People's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted, most selfless and most thoroughly revolutionary. The entire history of revolution proves that without the leadership of the working class revolution fails and that with the leadership of the working class revolution triumphs.

  Mao Zedong

  Class, People, Selfless

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century Florence. Goethe stands serenely above the politics of Germany, and I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over cities, we too will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.

  John F. Kennedy

  Plato, Ambition, Carpe Diem

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• It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.

  Alfred Adler

  Humility, Science, Order

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• Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Attitude, Real

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.78, Beacon Press

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• Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Pain, Struggle, Hero

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• Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.

  Rebecca West

  Mom, Mother, Humanity

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• We are all the sons or daughters of immigrants - some more recent than others - but all dedicated to the triumph of an idea that serves as the touchstone of what it means to be an American. This America is the only America that we have hitherto known - if being conservative has anything to do with conserving the principles of our past, then no conservative has any business bashing legal immigration.

  Jack Kemp

  Daughter, Mean, Son

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• You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Success, War, Suffering

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• Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!

  Walter Scott

  War, Hail, Chiefs

  "The Complete Poetry of Sir Walter Scott".

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• You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will unite, not to destroy, but to build, and that the future will belong to those who will have done most for suffering humanity.

  Louis Pasteur

  War, Ignorance, Science

  Speech at celebration honoring his seventieth birthday, the Sorbonne, Paris, France (December 27, 1892); "The life of Pasteur" by René Vallery-Radot, translated by Mrs. R. L. Devonshire, Vol. 2, (p. 297), 1902.

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• The Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road with a personality, a distinctive work of which the Americans of future generations can point with pride - an economic but also artistic triumph. (1914)

  Carl G. Fisher

  Future, Hard Work, Pride

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• I have walked this south stream when to believe in spring was an act of faith. It was spitting snow and
  blowing, and within two days of being May ... But as if to assert the triumph of climate over weather,
  one ancient willow managed a few gray pussy willows, soft and barely visible against the snow-blurred
  gray background.

  Ann Zwinger

  Spring, Believe, Journey

  Ann Zwinger (1970). “Beyond the Aspen Grove”, p.92, Big Earth Publishing

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• Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Sports, Business, Children

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• The triumph can't be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Motivational, Sports, Dream

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• Set out on pilgrimage and triumph gloriously over the infidels in the East.

  Orderic Vitalis

  War, East, Pilgrimage

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• The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England and from the days when Robert Morrison landed in China to the martyrdom of John and Betty Stam, prayer has been the source of power and the secret of spiritual triumph.

  Samuel Marinus Zwemer

  Spiritual, Prayer, Secret

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• If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all types. The twentieth century was a century of greatness, but we face the very real prospect that the next century will see very few enduring great institutions.

  James C. Collins

  Stars, Real, Greatness

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• It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one way; by assuring the triumph of justice, that is, the complete liberty of everyone in the most perfect equality for all. Inequality of conditions and rights, and the resulting lack of liberty for all, is the great collective iniquity begetting all individual iniquities.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Rights, Perfect

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• We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.

  Andrew Young

  White, America, Justice

  Andrew Young (1996). “An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America”, Harpercollins

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