Triumphant Quotes

• Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.

  Phillips Brooks

  Easter, Strong, Dark

  Phillips Brooks, “An Easter Carol”

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• Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Success, Yesterday, Causes

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Each new epoch in life seems an encounter. There is a tussle and a cloud of dust, and we come out of it triumphant or crest-fallen, according as we have borne ourselves.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Clouds, Dust

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

  Og Mandino

  Wisdom, Adversity, Triumph

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  The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Thomas Paine (1817). “The Political Works of Thomas Paine: In Two Volumes”

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• God is gone up on high with a triumphant noise.

  Charles Wesley

  Gone, Noise

  Charles Wesley, John Wesley, Samuel Wesley (1855). “The Wesleyan Psalter: a poetical version of nearly the whole Book of Psalms”, p.120

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• I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

  Walt Whitman

  Exercise, Past, America

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Complete Prose Works”, p.515, Walt Whitman

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  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

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Confidence, Mother, Son

  "A Childhood Recollection from Dichtung und Wahrheit" (1917)

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• Death, the final, triumphant lover.

  Bela Lugosi

  Finals, Lovers

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• The greater the struggle the more glorious the triumph

  Nick Vujicic

  Struggle, Triumph, Acumen

  Nick Vujicic (2012). “Unstoppable: The Incredible Power of Faith in Action”, p.62, WaterBrook

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• Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.

  Cordell Hull

  Military, Technology, Men

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

  Sivananda

  Inspiring, Stay Strong, Struggle

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• We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Love, Evil, Balance

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”

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• The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Hero, Men, Land

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.

  Fred Rogers

  Love, Powerful, Hate

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.94, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Freedom, Believe

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.117, Beacon Press

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• To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

  Pierre Corneille

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Evil was necessary because without it free will was impossible, and without free will there could be no growth—no forward movement, no chance for us to become what God longed for us to be. Horrible and all-powerful as evil sometimes seemed to be in a world like ours, in the larger picture love was overwhelmingly dominant, and it would ultimately be triumphant.

  Eben Alexander

  Powerful, Love Picture, Evil

  Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you.

  Jon Krakauer

  Memories, Real, Joy

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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• Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song.

  Rumi

  Song, Heart, Silence

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• O come all ye faithful, Joyful and triumphant,
  O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem.

  Frederick Oakeley

  Christmas, Faithful, Joyful

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• I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Being Strong, Peace

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• Art is the triumph over chaos.

  John Cheever

  Art, Triumph, Chaos

  John Cheever (1961). “Some Peoples, Places, and Things that Will Not Appear in My Next Novel”, New York : Harper

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

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Witty

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