Welcome to Prevail Quotes, a curated collection of inspiring and thought-provoking quotes designed to uplift and motivate. In a world where challenges often seem insurmountable, these words serve as beacons of hope, reminding us of the resilience of the human spirit and the power of perseverance. Whether you’re seeking encouragement during tough times or simply a dose of inspiration for your daily life, you’ll find a wealth of wisdom within these pages.
Throughout history, individuals from all walks of life have faced adversity head-on and emerged victorious, their experiences encapsulated in memorable phrases that resonate across generations. From renowned leaders and philosophers to artists and activists, each quote carries with it a unique perspective on the triumph of the human will. At Prevail Quotes, we believe in the profound impact that these words can have on our outlook and mindset, serving as catalysts for personal growth and transformation.
Below, you’ll discover a curated selection of quotes on the theme of prevailing against all odds. Feel free to use these quotes in your own projects whether it’s adding them to an image, incorporating them into a presentation, or simply sharing them with friends and loved ones. Let these words serve as a reminder of your own strength and resilience as you navigate life’s challenges. Together, let us draw inspiration from the wisdom of those who have prevailed before us.
The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We’ve learned certain skills, we’ve learned to prevail somewhat, but we’ve not made it over the mountain. Olympia Dukakis
Yes, we’ve seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling – baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail. John Thorn
I think I have made an impact in the workplace and I do believe that will prevail over any of the other things in the end. Paula Jones
The spirit of forgiveness should prevail, and there should be tolerance and understanding among all political parties for us to move forward. Roy Bennett
Halfway through primary school, I realised that I was not as physically strong or fearless as many kids. So, in situations of conflict, I quickly learned that it worked better for me to get out of situations or maybe kind of, you know, prevail in a conflict situation by using humour than by trying to punch somebody out. Morris Gleitzman
The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail… the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation. Jeff Cooper
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail. Pearl S. Buck
May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks. Joseph Lancaster
Good will always prevail over evil. I see that in me versus Klitschko. Tyson Fury
I am disgusted and worn out with the system that seems to prevail. John Buford
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
The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre. Helen Hayes
World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century. Neil Sheehan
The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it. Hjalmar Branting
I haven’t given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail. John Bolton
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
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
Life is fragile: it thrives only in a narrow range of temperatures between freezing and boiling. How lucky that our planet is just the right distance from the sun: a little farther, and the death of the perpetual Antarctic winter – or worse – would prevail; a little closer, and the surface would truly fry anything that touched it. Leonard Susskind
While I am in this world, I am resolved that no vexation shall put me out of temper if I can possibly command myself. Even old age, which is making strides towards me, shall not prevail to make me peevish. Samuel Adams
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. Algernon Sidney
The enemies of freedom will not prevail. Bill Frist
When you look at a guy like a Jay-Z or look at a guy like a Nas, you don’t necessarily qualify them as conscious rap purely, although they are extremely conscious of the social inequities that prevail. Michael Eric Dyson
I knew from day one, the truth would prevail, but I was so scared I didn’t know what to do. Susan Smith
You move forward through knowledge. You prevail through knowledge. I love the word ‘prevail.’ Prevail! James D. Watson
My beliefs are that good people who work hard get their rewards. There will be struggle at times and hurdles along the way – life throws up all sorts – but in the end, you will prevail if you stick to the right path. Moeen Ali
It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation. Lord John Russell
Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral. Stefan Zweig
In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting. Stefan Zweig
In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and plastic. Inferior standards can prevail due to smart marketing or industry collusion. Evgeny Morozov
I’m a relentlessly optimistic person, and I think ‘The Waterhole’ is a story of hope and that even though nature goes through cycles, we prevail in the end. Graeme Base
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
I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors. King George V
Dream, struggle, create, prevail. Be daring. Be brave. Be loving. Be compassionate. Be strong. Be brilliant. Be beautiful. Caterina Fake
Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo. Zach Wamp
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
But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda – no-one else is going to do that. Gerry Adams
Truth is mighty and will prevail. Thomas Brooks
We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail. George W. Bush
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
I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn’t been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail. Alija Izetbegovic
I am confident that in the end freedom and democracy will prevail over terror and tyranny. We will win this war on terror – and when we do Americans, the British, Iraqis, and people around the world will be more secure. Doc Hastings
If you don’t create a sense of order and stability, if people do not feel secure, then progressive politics is dead. That is a fact of history. The right has always emerged supreme when destabilisation and insecurity prevail. David Blunkett
Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail. Mary Astell
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
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. Guy Debord
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
I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I’m an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after. Cat Stevens
As an American, I want our forces to prevail. George McGovern
The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done. Charles Williams
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever. Jimmy Carter
It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail. Bob Marley
‘Growing Stronger’ emerged from a need to relate my life experiences as well as my constant struggle to prevail each day, and as a reminder to myself of the importance of never giving up. Thalia
We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority. Hussein of Jordan
Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators. Harold Prince
All countries in my part of the world, we want democracy to prevail. I told the people, ‘If you want American policies to stop, we need to take action.’ We need to make the U.S. understand that its meddling is inappropriate. Hassan Rouhani
I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense. Wayne Brady
The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated. Mercy Otis Warren
Long live Grameen Bank. Let the power of poor women prevail. Muhammad Yunus
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so. Mark Twain
I do think the Tea Party position will prevail, and I am often asked: ‘What has the Tea Party done and is it even still alive?’ People think because there have been no demonstrations with the ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ flag it’s gone, but it hasn’t. Richard Mourdock
The trial by jury is a trial by ‘the country,’ in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn by lot from the mass of the people, for the very purpose of having all classes of minds and feelings, that prevail among the people at large, represented in the jury. Lysander Spooner
When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or when sickness is not healed, the enemy of our souls can send his evil message that there is no God or that if He exists He does not care about us. Henry B. Eyring
It’s a bummer sometimes but I always believe that great bands and great music always prevail. Steve Brown
In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people. Clay Aiken
As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail. Adam Clarke
Everything doesn’t happen for a reason, if by this we mean evil is a part of God’s plan. But God does ensure that evil will not prevail and that light will always, ultimately, overcome the darkness. If we follow God’s lead, our work is to push back the darkness. Adam Hamilton
Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony. Sadie Jones
But I thought love would more than prevail. David Gest
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. Charles Caleb Colton
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Thomas Jefferson
What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy’s doubts is invincible. Cao Cao
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere. Sophocles
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders. Maya Angelou
I do see women voters shifting to the Republican Party and doing so significantly. And the issue that’s doing this is the fear the federal government will prevail in making the Affordable Health Care Act permanent law and how that will hurt small businesses. Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. George Washington
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. George Washington
The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail. Jonathan Kozol
Over a period of time, I think the popular will in Iran will prevail. Frank Carlucci
Truth will prevail. Gordon B. Hinckley
Individually, we’ve taken the world on and won; together, we must take on the challenge of creating a new, peaceful, humane and competitive nation and prevail. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
My wife determined that my genius should prevail, and that my final success as an ornithologist should be triumphant. John James Audubon
No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that always prevails: rich nations will find ways to protect themselves and make themselves comfortable, while the poor nations and the poor people of the planet will suffer. Joel Sternfeld
For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Our values and way of life will prevail – terrorism will not. John Linder
By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail. Natan Sharansky
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. Walter Scott
A ruler of men faces two possible misfortunes: if he employs the worthy, the ministers will use worthiness as a pretext to rob their ruler of his power, but if he promotes men recklessly, his affairs will be neglected, and he will not prevail. Han Fei
Together we are stronger, our voices louder, and the synergy of our actions more powerful. Together we can prevail on the Navy to put commonsense safeguards in place, like requiring its ships to avoid the most sensitive marine mammal habitats and to stop their training exercises during peak migrations. Pierce Brosnan
They’ve listed my name in the dictionary – ‘Imeldific’ is used to mean ostentatious extravagance… But the truth will prevail. Imelda Marcos
These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge, and steadfast belief that we will pull through. There will be challenges and setbacks, as there have already been, but we will continue, and we the citizens of New Orleans will prevail in bringing our city back. Cedric Richmond
The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail. Christian Dior
I have way more bravery than common sense, but you always assume things are going to be so difficult, and then when you’re actually faced with them, you prevail. It’s human nature. Annabelle Wallis
I think my legacy will be in what most people don’t like about me: my style – the separation between judge and lawyers, judge and politics, the real independence of the judiciary from the executive, from the legislative, from money. I’m criticized in Brazil because of that. In the end, I hope to prevail. Joaquim Barbosa
Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it. Eckhart Tolle
I’m one of those firm believers that good music will prevail. Pras Michel
That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar. Robert Shea
If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail. David O. Selznick
The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that. Rush Limbaugh
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ. Jimmy Carter
The biggest lesson I’ve learned is that hurt people hurt people, and kindness is just as contagious. So if you can focus your efforts on engineering kindness, it will prevail. Whitney Wolfe Herd