Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clive James

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

Abraham Cowley

Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

Ameen Rihani

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

David Byrne

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary

Juvenal

Wisdom triumphs over chance.

George Eliot

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

Hugo Chavez

Your triumph is the triumph of all of Venezuela,

Iris Murdoch

There is no triumph of good, and if there were it would not be a triumph of good.

Gunter Grass

When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?

Max Winkler

If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

Joe Girardi

I'm a pretty upbeat guy. I tend to throw a lot of praise around.

L. Estrange

Tis better that a man's own works, than that another man's words should praise him

Ben Jonson

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

William Shakespeare

Good things should be praised.

William Shakespeare

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

Jane Austen

that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

Charles Fillmore

We increase whatever we praise.

Charles Fillmore

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.