Exultation Quotes

To be a good sportsman, one must be a stoic and never show rancor in defeat, or triumph in victory, or irritation, no matter what annoyance is encountered. One who can not help sulking, or explaining, or protesting when the loser, or exulting when the winner, has no right to take part in games or contests.

Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one's mistakes.

I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.

Who can be born black and not exult!

He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.

We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope.

The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it! We're up, above you. We were dependant on you just now, prisoners fawning on you for favors, for wind and light. But now, we are free. We are up! We are off! Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring- a sustained note of power and joy.

Sometimes a pinch of sadism is the ingredient that makes victory taste that little bit sweeter.

God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation.

While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.

Yes!” said Fang, punching the air. “Freaks rule.

The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.

He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.

Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Exuberance is beauty.

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

Play is the exultation of the possible.

There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.

Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for creative activity as that it provides spiritual values. It puts man in touch with the highest aspirations and lofiest goals. It offers intellectual delight and the exultation of resolving the mysteries of the universe.

All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice!

I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain.

One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.