Quotes about Triumph

Napoleon Bonaparte

Politician, Leader, Military Commander

In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.

Triumph - War

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Writer

The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.

Man - Marking - Spelling - Triumph

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

Death - Gentleman - Marriage - Triumph - Unhappy

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader, Civil rights activist

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

Music - Speaking - Triumph

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Nelson Mandela

Revolutionary, Former President of South Africa

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.

Bravery - Conquering - Emotions - Feelings - Independence - Inspiration - Man - Overcome - Triumph

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Richard Dawkins

Producer, Scientist, Ethologist

A triumph of consciousness-raising has been the homosexual hijacking of the word 'gay.'

Gay - Homosexual - Triumph

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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

Persevere in thy quest and thou shalt find what thou seekest. Pursue thy aim unswervingly and thou shalt gain victory. Struggle earnestly and thou shalt triumph.

Aiming - Bravery - Gains - Leadership - Perseverance - Pursuit - Quest - Struggle - Triumph - Victory

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Alain de Botton

Philosopher, Author

Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is in ourselves, all the cowardice, weakness, laziness, dishonesty, compromise, and stupidity. We throw a cordon of love around the chosen one and decide that everything within it will somehow be free of our faults. We locate inside another a perfection that eludes us within ourselves, and through our union with the beloved hope to maintain (against the evidence of all self-knowledge) a precarious faith in our species.

Compromise - Cowardice - Dishonesty - Elude - Fall - Fault - Laziness - Oneself - Perfection - Stupid - Triumph - Unions - Weakness

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Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Cosmologist, Astrophysicist, Astrobiologist

.. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot'

Empires - Glory - Mastering - Thinking - Triumph

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H. L. Mencken

Journalist, Cultural Critic

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Cynicism - Sarcasm - Triumph

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader, Civil rights activist

Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

Belief - Defeat - Peace - Racism - Reality - Refuse - Triumph - Truth

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Ray Bradbury

Actor, Writer, Writer

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

Danger - Disaster - Repetition - Triumph

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Joseph Campbell

Public Servant, Author, Writer

Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former-the youngest or despised child who becomes the master of extraordinary powers-prevails over his personal oppressors, the latter brings back from his adventure the means for the regeneration of his society as a whole.

Achievement - Adventure - Children - Extraordinary - Heroism - Mastering - Meaning - Mythology - Oppression - Triumph - Whole - World

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Robert Kennedy

Actor, Politician, Former U.S. Senator

Nothing is more false than the notion that the triumph of Communism is inevitable or that the Communists are steadily pushing the free world into a corner.

Communism - Freedom - Nothing - Notions - Triumph - World

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Jack Canfield

Activist, Author, Author

When you think you can't, revisit a previous triumph.

Motivation - Thinking - Triumph

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Politician, Leader, Military Commander

The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.

Enough - Fate - Mornings - Triumph - War

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader, Civil rights activist

I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction... I believe that even amid today's mortar bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow... I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed.

Accept - Belief - Cynicism - Mankind - Nations - Notions - Peace - Refuse - Someday - Triumph - War

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James Madison

Former President of the United States

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Gains - Triumph

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Actor, Writer, Author

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.

Future - Past - Philosophy - Triumph

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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Gains - Triumph

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