Top 100 Prevail Quotes
#1. Flatterers are always to blame for the vices which prevail among mankind
Moliere
#2. What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.
Henry David Thoreau
#3. You can make many plans, but the Lord's purpose will prevail.
Francine Rivers
#4. It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
Lech Walesa
#5. The resurrection is the promise that death will not prevail, that nothingness does not have the last word. God promises to overcome it with life ... We can trust that God will overcome death because Jesus is the resurrection, because on the third day Jesus rose again, as the first of many.
Andrew Root
#6. Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.
Matthew Arnold
#7. I knew from day one, the truth would prevail, but I was so scared I didn't know what to do
Susan Smith
#8. When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.
Barbara Kingsolver
#9. When, from the top of any high hill, one looks round the country, and sees the multitude of regularly distributed spires, one not only ceases to wonder that order and religion are maintained, but one is astonished that any such thing as disaffection or irreligion should prevail.
William Cobbett
#10. Applaud us when we prevail, correct us when we fail; but, above all, do not let this indispensable, irreplaceable institution wither, languish or perish as a result of Member States' indifference, inattention or financial starvation.
Kofi Annan
#11. In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the worst enemy, the worst peril, is indifference.
Elie Wiesel
#12. God works for man through man and seldom, if at all, in any other way. He asks for our voices to speak His truth, for our hands to do His work here below, sweet voices and clean hands to make liberty and love prevail over injustice and hate.
Joseph Fort Newton
#13. Evil had to manifest itself and fulfill its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. [ ... ] Evil needs to manifest itself, for them to understand the value of Good.
Paulo Coelho
#14. You move forward through knowledge. You prevail through knowledge. I love the word 'prevail.' Prevail!
James D. Watson
#15. The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.
George Washington
#16. It's a bummer sometimes but I always believe that great bands and great music always prevail.
Steve Brown
#17. There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.
J. William Fulbright
#18. How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause. Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?
Sophie Scholl
#19. We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.
Helen Thomas
#20. Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.
Francis Quarles
#21. This small little thing, which was started to give people a way of life, with love and dedication, shall prevail in the coming change of the Age.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#22. As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority.
Ayn Rand
#23. Jesus Christ promised that the gates of Hell would not prevail against His church, but He did not promise that Hell would not prevail against His church in the West. That depends on us, and the choices we make right here, right now.
Rod Dreher
#24. Yes, in the commercial world there's room for both McDonald's and Whole Foods, but in the realm of politics, we're told, it's either Filet-o-Fish or line-caught salmon: only one can prevail - and which is up to you.
Walter Kirn
#25. Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.
Dean Ornish
#26. At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.
Jean Cocteau
#27. Faithfulness works itself out in the context of complex social, political, economic, and cultural forces that prevail at a particular time and place.
James Davison Hunter
#28. Much as we don't condone impunity, if pursuit for justice was in conflict with pursuit for peace, peace must prevail.
Bernard Membe
#29. When honor and truth are at odds, let truth prevail.
Jose Bernardo
#30. The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail.
Christian Dior
#31. We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.
William Hazlitt
#33. Where words prevail not, violence prevails.
Thomas Kyd
#34. Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.
Ernst Haeckel
#35. Because with joy, we overcome the terror. With love, strength, and hope, we prevail.
Sarah Darer Littman
#36. FACTS
Fact #1 Mean people suck.
Fact #2 Bad things happen to good people.
Fact #3 Good doesn't always prevail over evil.
Susane Colasanti
#37. No matter how much he loved her ... his need to fulfill his promise to Nathaniel would always prevail.
Aleatha Romig
#38. Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail.
Robert Lloyd
#39. The light of truth will cover the world, and eliminate the darkness that, for at the moment, blinds so many from the way. The faith of the faithful will prevail, and those faithful will be united with the Lord Jesus forever.
Calvin W. Allison
#40. Believe in Lord Arthur. Believe in your Carp. We shall prevail.
Garth Nix
#43. Apple chief executive Tim Cook is such a respected figure that it's easy to overlook the basic problem with his argument about encryption: Cook is asserting that a private company and the interests of its customers should prevail over the public's interest as expressed by our courts.
David Ignatius
#44. Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.
James S. Coleman
#46. If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
Algernon Sidney
#47. The major problem for America is we're losing two wars. We're losing in Afghanistan, we're losing in Iraq. And there seems very little likelihood that we're going to increase the number of troops we have in either place to the point that we can prevail.
Michael Scheuer
#48. The prayer of faith is a prayer willing to believe and prevail for God's answer in a situation that is utterly impossible. Regardless of the difficulty of the situation, you require no external confirmation but believe God in spite of appearance. Your eyes are on God, not on the situation.
Wesley L. Duewel
#49. He had the sense that the gods was just another name for time, but he felt that it would be as stupid to say such a thing as it would be to suggest that against the gods we can never prevail.
Richard Flanagan
#50. CAPITALISM: If everything worked without need of repair, upgrade or replacement, then peaceful minds and prosperity would prevail among the masses rather than just the few who control markets.
T.F. Hodge
#51. Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.
Gore Vidal
#52. When you're in the midst of a storm, it's hard to remember that God is always good and glorious, and that God's plans will always prevail, even when yours don't.
Louie Giglio
#53. Never will this prevail, that the things that are not are - bar your thought from this road of inquiry.
Parmenides
#54. These were no-man's-lands, limbos of a sort, places where language did not prevail and the only protection was flight, if you could run fast enough; or submission if you couldn't.
Joyce Carol Oates
#55. If the West believed in something, it would prevail overnight. The problem is you can't beat bad faith with no faith.
Dennis Prager
#56. We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.
Theodore C. Sorensen
#57. Just as the power of the feudal aristocracy had to be broken in order for capitalism to emerge fully, so must imperialism and capitalism in Third World nations be overcome if a new system is to prevail.
Michael Parenti
#58. The sense of duality, which is a barrier to true love, must prevail so long as the apperception of Truth has not occurred. Once individuality is surrendered, there is only total Love.
Ramesh S Balsekar
#59. So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence, they will prevail against your soul.
John Owen
#61. In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!
Napoleon Bonaparte
#62. The key decision for a statesman is whether to commit his nation or not. There is no middle course. Once a great nation commits itself, it must prevail. It will acquire no kudos for translating its inner doubts into hesitation.
Henry A. Kissinger
#64. It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail.
Neville Chamberlain
#65. To lead, one must anticipate those that would attempt to stand in your way. By planning smarter, anticipating, and leaving nothing to chance, you can prevail.
Kelly Walker
#66. In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.
Joseph Cannon
#67. We are all members of the same great family ... On social occasions the formality of strictly military occasions should be relaxed, and a spirit of friendliness and goodwill should prevail.
John A. Lejeune
#68. Gospel optimism leads to kingdom prayer. This psalm should move us to pray - and to pray with great hope and expectation - that the kingdom of Christ will prevail against the powers of evil and that all His elect will be brought in and made holy.
Joel R. Beeke
#69. We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions ...
Llewellyn Rockwell
#70. In two novels written forty years apart, a man and a woman tell stories of their love ... Taken together they provide an unusually touching story of young love unable to prevail against an opposition whose strength was tragically buttressed by the uncertainties of a cultural divide.
Isabel Colegate
#71. It will be difficult, even painful, but democracy will prevail in Russia. There will be no dictatorship, although relapses into authoritarianism are possible.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#72. I don't feel as strong today as I do on other days, but I know Your strength will prevail in my weakness. The enemy is always trying to fill me with fear and doubt and make me abandon this mission. Help me ignore the lies and have courage to go on each day
Molly Evangeline
#73. I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will prevail, that the dream of our founders will live on in our time.
Barack Obama
#74. It was the mob that swept him into office. However, it's unlikely that when more sober elements prevail they'll want to support a cripple and demagogue who depends on inflaming the mass with his lies and spellbinding.
Philip K. Dick
#75. Qi constantly ebbs and flows through the world in cycles of creation and destruction so that an energetic equilibrium will prevail.
Ronald H Davis
#76. Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.
Blaise Pascal
#77. 1SA17.9 If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us. 1SA17.10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
Anonymous
#78. If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Francis Quarles
#79. Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens.
Simon Sinek
#80. It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.
Bob Marley
#81. The politics of our society are a conversation in which past, present and future each has a voice; and though one or other of them may on occasion properly prevail none permanently dominates, and on this account we are free.
Michael Joseph Oakeshott
#82. Of course, man is also a weak creature with many bad qualities. And it depends on which of his qualities will in a certain social situation and in a certain climate prevail, which qualities will awaken. The totalitarian system was masterful in how it managed to mobilize all the bad qualities.
Judy Woodruff
#83. Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable.
Thomas Jefferson
#85. If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.
Narendra Modi
#86. But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.
Virginia Woolf
#87. This man did not deal in fairy tales. You could see that as soon as you walked into his office. Schevitz was somebody who liked to be proved right, somebody whose wish to prevail was his vocation.
Philip Roth
#88. Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.
Thomas Carlyle
#89. Until that moment, he hadn't been sure he would prevail. Any woman brave enough to thrust a blade at him was unpredictable at best, and dangerous at worst.
Sabrina Jeffries
#90. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
George Washington
#91. In a fight between a strong technique and a strong body, technique will prevail. In a fight between a strong mind and a strong technique, mind will prevail, because it will find the weak point.
Taisen Deshimaru
#92. He did not know, but presently he would know. Great is information, and she shall prevail.
E. M. Forster
#93. Awareness (of the Self) prevails in matters where one becomes attachment-free (vitrag), and where one has attachment-abhorrence, there his awareness will not prevail.
Dada Bhagwan
#94. In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.
Stefan Zweig
#95. The main difference lies in wage levels, which is because our workers are not yet as well trained as in other countries. We are a poor country. This is why we must accept the conditions that prevail in international markets. But our trade unions do represent the rights of workers.
Nguyen Minh Triet
#96. When a world of men
Could not prevail with all their oratory,
Yet hath a woman's kindness overrul'd;
William Shakespeare
#97. I have my loyalty to the team of my youth. Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. The team that I grew up with was constantly the underdog but managed to prevail.
Bill De Blasio
#98. It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.
Lord John Russell
#99. Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.
John Owen
#100. Beauty might prevail in the very short term, but in the medium and longer terms, cultural norms - primarily those values and norms influenced by family - were more important.
Nicholas Sparks
