Winning Quotes

• The greatest thing anyone can do for God and for man is to pray. You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Prayer is striking the winning blow ... service is gathering up the results.

  

  S. D Gordon
  • Up
  • God
  • Service

• Award shows are really silly. I'm very happy for the people that win the awards, and I can say they're really silly, but I would love to get one. So I also know wasting time on that is pointless.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • People
  • Winning
  • Silly

• A woman . . . always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem.

  

  Abel Stevens
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Feels

• If Democrats want to start winning elections in this country, they're going to have to start connecting with voters as well as I connect with my fans.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Country
  • Winning
  • Fans

• Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Dream

• There are all these awards that you've never heard of, and you get nominated, and suddenly you're at these awards shows, so you really don't care if you win. You really don't. You're going there, you're getting dressed up. And then you get to the awards show, and you sit down. You walk the red carpet. Everybody loves you. It's great. You sit down, and all of a sudden your category comes up, and you get nervous. And it's a complicated emotion, because it's not like you absolutely want to win, but then you don't want to lose.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Care
  • Emotion
  • Nervous

• My whole thing is I like to hang around winners, I like winning spirits, I have zero tolerance for jealousy.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Spirit
  • Tolerance
  • Winner

• As long as we win games while I'm on the mound, I feel good.

  

  CC Sabathia
  • Long
  • Feels
  • Games

• They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.

  

  Red Auerbach
  • Together
  • Player
  • Basketball

• If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Victory

• If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Universe
  • Stage
  • Circumstances

• Winning does something to you. It releases something in you, it's confidence and you get that nasty taste of losing out of your mouth. You get that losing mentality out of your system. That first game is going to be critical. Once we get that first game, hopefully it will be this week, we can start doing what we need to do for the rest of the season.

  

  Brian Dawkins
  • Game
  • System
  • Mentality

• Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Culture
  • Winning

• There really is no pressure on me because the team was basically set and they were winning Super Bowls without me

  

  Corey Dillon
  • Team
  • Pressure
  • Set

• Powerful, quick and agile, Serena Williams thrives on winning.

  

  Don Yaeger
  • Powerful
  • Winning

• Acknowledging that we lose is the overarching theme in everything in Stars. To me, that's what punk means. Stars is a punk band because we acknowledge loss. We're not trying to win. We're not trying to project victory. You win alone. I'm not interested in singing for the one winner in the room; I'm interested in singing for all of the losers in the room.

  

  Torquil Campbell Broken Social Scene
  • Mean
  • Singing
  • Victory

• 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
  • Great
  • Eyes
  • Winning

• I hate to lose more than I love winning, and I'm coming to Dallas to win a Super Bowl.

  

  Ezekiel Elliott
  • Love
  • Lose
  • I Hate

• I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving. It's not about speed. And gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped. you might find that one particular direction proves difficult, but there are many directions on a compass. Infinite, in fact. As long as you keep searching, you'll find your winning way.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Long
  • Running
  • Moving

• If you win power, remember why you wanted it.

  

  John Marston
  • Remember
  • Winning
  • Wanted

• Somebody is going to win & somebody is not, and that's fine... But we will never refuse to participate because we're scared to fail.

  

  Chael Sonnen
  • Failing
  • Scared
  • Fine

• The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

  

  William Ruckelshaus
  • Way
  • Wisdom
  • Argument

• In the United States 95% of the people who win elections have the most money. That's it. So, money is a big part of elections. But that happens all the time.

  

  George Clooney
  • People
  • Bigs
  • Election

• You are mine-you know you're mine!" he cried wildly...the moonlight twisted in through the vines and listened...the fireflies hung upon their whispers as if to win his glance from the glory of their eyes.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Eyes
  • Eye
  • Firefly

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