Quotes About Small Triumphs

#1. We like it the way it is. We're enjoying the oscillating balances, the ongoing war between good and evil, the wonderful small triumphs of the soul. Perhaps it's too soon to end all that. Perhaps we need some more time to think things out.

Mark Helprin

#2. This had been real: real in its flaws and uncertainties, real in its small triumphs, real in its compromises and understanding.

Juliet Marillier

#3. Heroism doesn't always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history. Sometimes a chicken can save a man's life.

Mary Roach

#4. The night was a typewriter key that got stuck and kept punching all the letters on top of the others until all that was left was a black blob. No word, no letter, no message in the night for me.

Heather O'Neill

#5. Dashed if I didn't receive a letter from him this morning! Yes, and what's more, I had to pay sixpence for it, which I'd as lief not have done. It ain't that I grudge sixpence, but what I mean is, why the deuce should I have to give sixpence for a thing I'd as soon not have?

Georgette Heyer

#6. I have no idea what the U.S. intends to do further there and what would be the reaction of the Iraqi people. I only know that the sole option is to leave Iraq to the Iraqi people.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#7. Bad guys have more fun.

David Gallagher

#8. It's such fun to take a lot of people and create something silly.

Eric Idle

#9. I believe whatever smart, ambitious people are working on will be the trend of the future. I do think that it's worth thinking critically about what the future will be.

Sam Altman

#10. It's kind of a shock to your skin, changing climates. It's new water, and new air quality.

Shay Mitchell

#11. Janie walked back over with a bouquet of nine white, long stem roses and one white.

Michelle Hughes

#12. We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.

Malcolm Wallop

#13. Too many talented people string and unstring their instruments without ever playing their music.

Ken Standley

#14. There are none so low but they have their triumphs. Small successes suffice for small souls.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#15. Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it.

Erik Erikson

#16. How could any woman's skin be so soft? It was as if the world had never touched her.

Meredith Duran

#17. I don't mind [being ugly], do you?

George Eliot

#18. Concerning PDA: Anything that can be described as 'cute' is okay. Anything that can be described as 'mating' is not okay.

Ryan Hansen

#19. It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.

Alfred Adler

#20. You. I've spent my life waiting for you.' -Keenan

Melissa Marr

#21. The secret of pleasure in life, as distinct from its great triumphs of transcendent joy, is to live in a series of small, legitimate successes. By legitimate I mean such as are not accompanied by self-condemnation.

Sydney Thompson Dobell

#22. Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

John Steinbeck