Winning Quotes - page 3

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir and there are many victories worse than a defeat. (George Eliot)
There is something strangely winning to most women in that offer of the firm arm the help is not wanted physically at that moment, but the sense of help, the presence of strength that is outside them and yet theirs, meets a continual want of the imagination. View quote
George Eliot
The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end. View quote
Sylvia Plath
Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; He left one book, penned by ordinary people. Deliverers speak of winning through might and conquest; He spoke of a place in the heart. View quote
Ravi Zacharias
It's never just a game when you're winning. View quote
George Carlin
I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude. View quote
Colin Powell
If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning! View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!! View quote
Bruce Lee
This old aristocracy and Church-ridden, and tradition-ridden country will never grow wiser. Whilst we are fighting for supremacy in Europe, the [United] States are working, and not fighting for it, but winning it all over the world. View quote
John Bright
I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game, I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player's hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that's what I'm in this for. View quote
Larry Bird
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. (Barbara Bush)
Damn it, when will you learn that refusing to admit you've lost isn't the same as winning? View quote
Scott Lynch
Winning the Nobel Prize does not automatically qualify you to be commander in chief. I think George Bush has proved definitively that to be president, you don't need to care about science, literature or peace. View quote
Stephen Colbert
Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next. View quote
George Steinbrenner
Many a crown shines spotless now That yet was deeply sullied in the winning. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun. View quote
Suzanne Collins
It's incredible. Nine? Wow. I just remember winning my first one, getting the medal and the plate, the pin with the diamond for first place. My ninth title, I have no answer for that because I never thought it would be possible. View quote
Michelle Kwan
People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning. View quote
Kobe Bryant
At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage. View quote
Paolo Bacigalupi
Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning. (Charlie Brooker)
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. View quote
Abbie Hoffman
The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
You can surrender Without a prayer But never really pray Pray without surrender You can fight Without ever winning But never ever win Without a fight -- Resist (1996) View quote
Neil Peart
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. View quote
Ross Perot