Winning

“Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.”
–Tom Chappel

"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them – every day begin the task anew." – Saint Francis de Sales

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self." Aristotle

"Winning is everything, to win is all there is. Only those poor souls buried beneath the battlefield understand this." SEAL Team Saving

"All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means… you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else." Vince Lombardi

"Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is." -- Zig Ziglar

"The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them."
-- Denis Waitley


"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." -- Bertie C. Forbes

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." -- Roger Bannister

"You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose." -- Charles Lynch

"Those that know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories." -- Polybius

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." -- Thomas Paine

"Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top." -- D.A. Benton

"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even." -- Muhammad Ali

"The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell." -- Andrew Carnegie

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong." -- Abraham Lincoln

"Never let defeat have the last word." -- Tibetan Proverb

"There is no victory at bargain basement prices." -- Dwight David Eisenhower

"There are many victories worse than a defeat." -- George Eliot

"Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser." -- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"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 a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." -- Vince Lombardi

"The man who wins may have been counted out several times, but he didn't hear the referee." -- H. E. Jansen

"Nobody remembers who came in second." -- Charles Schulz

"That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning." -- Richard David Bach

"If any thing goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you." -- Paul "Bear" Bryant

"If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are." -- Paul "Bear" Bryant

"If winning isn't important, why do we spend all that money on scoreboards?" -- Chuck Coonradt

"If winning isn't important, why keep score?" -- Star Trek: The Next Generation

"Everybody is born with an equal chance to become just as unequal as he or she possibly can." -- Anonymous

"Winners dwell on and hold the self-image of that person they would most like to become. They get a vivid, clear, emotional, sensory picture of themselves as if they had already achieved their new role in life." -- Anonymous

"Ever notice that people never say "It's only a game" when they're winning?" -- Ivern Ball



"The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work." -- William Feather

"There is no relief at it being over. There is the joy of winning it." -- Stefi Graf

"There's 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

"The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously." -- Albert Green Hubbard

"I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning." -- Robert Francis Kennedy

"And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride." -- Vince Lombardi

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

"Winners are naturally bullish." -- Merrill Lynch

"If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record." -- Jan McKeithen

"Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe." -- John Milton

"When you win, nothing hurts." -- Joe Namath

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

"My serve was there, everything was just clicking. Those are the days you dream about, especially in a final." -- Pete Sampras

"There are only two places in this league: first place and no place." -- Tom Seaver

"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat." -- Queen Victoria

"You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win." -- Vince Lombardi

"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." -- Vince Lombardi

"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you'll be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives." -- Vince Lombardi

"It's not whether you get knocked down: it's whether you get up." -- Vince Lombardi

"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." -- Vince Lombardi

"Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again." -- Vince Lombardi

"Winning is not everything - but making an effort to win is." -- Vince Lombardi

"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged by only one thing - the result." -- Vince Lombardi

"It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're No. 1. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner." -- Vince Lombardi

"Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, the temporary failures." -- Vince Lombardi

"Success demands singleness of purpose." -- Vince Lombardi

"If winning isn't important, why keep score?" -- Star Trek: The Next Generation

"Everybody is born with an equal chance to become just as unequal as he or she possibly can." -- Anonymous

"Winners dwell on and hold the self-image of that person they would most like to become. They get a vivid, clear, emotional, sensory picture of themselves as if they had already achieved their new role in life." -- Anonymous

"That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning." -- Richard Bach

"Ever notice that people never say "It's only a game" when they're winning?" -- Ivern Ball

"If any thing goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you." -- Paul Bryant

"If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are." -- Paul Bryant

"The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work." -- William Feather

"There is no relief at it being over. There is the joy of winning it." -- Steffi Graf

"There's 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

"The art of winning in business is in working hard — not taking things too seriously." -- Elbert Hubbard

"I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning." -- Robert Kennedy

"And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride." -- Vince Lombardi

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

"Winners are naturally bullish." -- Merrill Lynch

"If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record." -- Jan McKeithen

"Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe." -- John Milton

"When you win, nothing hurts." -- Joe Namath

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

"My serve was there, everything was just clicking. Those are the days you dream about, especially in a final." -- Pete Sampras

"There are only two places in this league: first place and no place." -- Tom Seaver

"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat." -- Queen Victoria

"The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers." -- Brian Tracy

"There are 100 men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune." -- J. Paul Getty

"To win without risk is to triumph without glory." -- Pierre Corneille

"You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be." -- Robert Collier

"Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results." -- Brian Tracy

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." -- Anonymous

"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." -- Napoleon Hill