If you can accept losing you can’t win. If you can walk you can run. No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in your mind.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr. (1913–70) American Football Player, Coach
Winner expects to win in advance. Life is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
—Indian Proverb
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
—Bert Williams (1876–1922) American Entertainer, Actor
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
—Harriett Woods (1927–2007) American Activist, Politician
They who lose today may win tomorrow.
—Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist
Nothing can seem foul to those who win.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
The winner persistently programs his pluses; the loser mournfully magnifies his minuses.
—William Arthur Ward (1921–94) American Author
There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American Head of State, Military Leader
Remember that the horse that finishes a neck ahead wins the race.
—Unknown
Winners make it happen – losers let it happen.
Winners make choices – losers take chances.
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
—Vince Lombardi (1913–70) American Football Coach
Therefore the skilful leader subdues the enemy’s troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.
—Sun Tzu (fl.c.544–496 BCE) Chinese General, Military Theorist
Don’t fight a battle if you don’t gain anything by winning.
—George S. Patton (1885–1945) American Military Leader
You will never win if you never begin.
—Robert H. Schuller (1926–2015) American Christian Televangelist, Author
You will never win if you never begin.
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950) American Journalist, Humorist
If you can’t win, make the guy ahead of you break the record.
—Anonymous
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
—George Meredith (1828–1909) British Novelist, Poet, Critic
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
—Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878–1969) American Baptist Minister
One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.
—Denis Waitley (b.1933) American Motivational Speaker, Author
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
—Brian Tracy (b.1944) American Author, Motivational Speaker
The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth; for all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of a face; and true proportions the beauty of architecture; as true measures that of harmony and music. In poetry, which is all fable, truth still is the perfection.
—Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (1621–83) English Statesman
A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.
—Unknown
The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain—he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem—he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.
—William Arthur Ward (1921–94) American Author
I don’t know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win.
—Tiger Woods (b.1975) American Sportsperson
When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.
—Paul Brown (1908–91) American Sportsperson
Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.
—Bum Phillips (1923–2013) American Football Coach
From quiet homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There’s nothing worth the winning,
But laughter and the love of friends.
—Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) British Historian, Poet, Critic
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
—Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809) American Nationalist, Author, Pamphleteer, Inventor
Remember that the only time you really lose is when you’re not giving it 100 percent.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (b.1940) American Self-Help Author
The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
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