#triumph

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? ↗

— Robert Browning

#comes #crouch #foot #his #make

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality? ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#dominate #evil #good #good people #happens

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

#become #before #defeats #demonstrated #discouraged

I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail. ↗

— Wendell L. Wilkie

#day #fail #i #know #lose

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#act #attain #beauty #chaos #convert

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#failed #few #few men #half #know

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle! ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#defeat #gods #hands #let us #life

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#classes #eliminated #history #others #some

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss. ↗

— Kathie Lee Gifford

#could #disaster #find #i #if i could

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#chained #greatest #hounded #imprisoned #nevertheless