#triumph

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. ↗

— George Eliot

#dullness #nature #private #quarrels #reason

Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent. ↗

— Alejo Carpentier

#always #continent #cuban #daily #european

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#be true #compassion #despair #faith #generals

To win without risk is to triumph without glory. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#risk #triumph #win #without

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#glory #peril #triumph

To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#peril #triumph #vanquish #without

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#important #important thing #life #thing #triumph

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air. ↗

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

#claims #echoes #fault #greatest #horror

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake. ↗

— Basil Hume

#confidence #easter #gift #god #goodness

I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#came #chosen #constitutional #country #distinction