(54 quotes found)
“You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I will not be triumphed over.”
Cleopatra
“The triumph of hope over experience”
Samuel Johnson
“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”
James Madison
“Conquer, but don't triumph.”
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
“We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.”
Bruce Barton
“Evil often triumphs, but never conquers”
Joseph Roux
“Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring”
S. J. Perelman
“President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness to act on that belief, helped end the Cold War and usher in a new and brighter phase of history.”
Colin Powell
“I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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