#triumph

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

#crowded #defeat #ourselves #shouts #street

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it. ↗

— Ralph Marston

#chance #difficult #get #now #pick

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#more #some #than #triumphant #victories

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant? ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#been #egoism #future #god #hidden

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#art #brute #i #magic #only

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

— Bob Thaves

#good #over #point #small #spread

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#bring #communism #did #down #evil

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#aristocratic #atheism #being #crime #great

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. ↗

— George Will

#experience #hope #know #marriage #over

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

#courage #dramatic #final #less #magnificent