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Jan

Quotations. On Winning


Winning.
The 49th in a series of collections of useable quotations to make you look really smart in your next presentation or report.  

 

 

 

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
Winston Churchill

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi

Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.
Vince Lombardi

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
Vince Lombardi

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
John Wooden

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
John Wooden

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

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.
Barack Obama

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
Lao Tzu

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.
George W. Bush

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
George Orwell

Winning starts with beginning.
Robert H. Schuller

I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that.
Mike Ditka

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Richard Dawkins

 

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
Lance Armstrong

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Francis Bacon

The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.
Bear Bryant

The problem with winning the rat race is you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
Jackie Robinson

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
Fran Lebowitz

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
Fran Lebowitz

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.
Ross Perot

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.
Richard M. Nixon

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
Alfred Hitchcock

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
Erwin Rommel

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Pythagoras

We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.
Eric Cantona

I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
Rahm Emanuel

The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
Tom Landry

We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.
Knute Rockne

Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.
Knute Rockne

The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.
Mia Hamm

 

 

 

 
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