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Quotes About Winning

After that I met that lawyer in the street, and was ashamed to look him in the face. I'm blessed if he didn't come up and shake hands with me, and tell me that he knew all along that his client hadn't a leg to stand on. Now I call that beautiful. Beautiful! said Kenneby. Yes, I do. He fought that battle just as if he was sure of winning, though he knew he was going to lose. Give me the man that can fight a losing battle. Anybody can play whist with four by honours in his own hands.
~ Anthony Trollope
And a man captivated by wiles was only captivated for a time, whereas a man won by simplicity would be won for ever, — if he himself were worth the winning.
~ Anthony Trollope
Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
In a con game, you use his greed. You make the first move, and
~ Sidney Sheldon
You didn't beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!
~ Simon Cowell
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.
~ Taylor Hicks
Essentially, I am a dreamer. I've dreamed all my life. When I started, I dreamed I'd be Champion because it is a sport that is all about the people who win the most, and I have a fear of not winning.
~ Tony McCoy
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
~ Pythagoras
I am not designed to come secondor third, I am designedto win.
~ Ayrton Senna
You can't achieve your way to happiness. You can't win your way out of depression. This does not prevent smart people from thinking that way.
~ John Moe
He came home quite gloomy, though, because the pointers were winning all down the line, ' ' Ell-ooping all over the country like a lot of gray'ounds,' is what he told me. 'Don't they find birds?' I asked, and I gathered from what he said that when a pointer stumbled over a bevy, he stopped in astonishment.
~ John Taintor Foote
when competition is seen as essential to a good life, when winning against one's neighbors is put at the heart of society, business thrives. To win, others have to lose: the more losers, the better winning feels.
~ John Taylor Gatto
For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning.
~ John Thorn
Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
~ John Wooden
I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.
~ John Wooden
Hi Sandy, I won!
~ Ellen Raskin
Anyone who acknowledges that winners never quit and quitters never win cannot be beaten for life. I mean, he or she will hardly give up on his or her faith until he or she wins or succeeds. Thus, never ever quit until you win or succeed. Because, surely winners never quit and quitters never win. And quitters cannot and will never win or succeed for life.
~ Emeasoba George
Aduni,cuceresti,castigi si lupti pentru a fugi de tine,pentru a-ti invinge intristarea de a nu exista,in mod real,decat tu insuti.
~ Emil Cioran
Saintliness is a special kind of madness. While the madness of mortals exhausts itself in useless and fantastic actions, holy madness is a conscious effort towards winning everything.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Sooner or later, all games become serious.
~ ballard j g v
Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.
~ Barack Obama
The one of you who bids nearest to the actual retail price of your own showcase without going over will win it. But if you're the winner and are $250 or less away from the price of your showcase, we'll have the pleasure of giving you *both* showcases!
~ barker bob ii