#triumphs

Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure. ↗

— Greg Bear

#beautiful #because #buried #childhood #childhood memories

To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#defeats #endure #faith #fashion #heretic

It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways. ↗

— Glenn Close

#amazes #every #full #house #many

The road of life is filled with sunshine and clouds, black and white, triumphs and tragedies. As we continue down the road, we decide which things we bring with us, and which we leave in the rear-view mirror. ↗

— Julie-Anne

#road #sunshine #tragedies #triumphs #life

To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#life #trials #triumphs #courage

I am so grateful for my troubles. As I reflect back on my life, I have come to realize that my greatest triumphs have been born of my greatest troubles. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #motivation #success #triumphs #troubles

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

— Thomas Jefferson

#error #gained #humanity #indebted #oppression

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#century #domain #eighteenth #eighteenth century #great

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#give #giving #nature #nature-of-things #triumph

But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace? ↗

— Thomas Day

#boast #distinguish #graces #inhabitants #inventions