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Winning Quotes (page 55)

The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush. William Ellery Channing
It's not about winning, Haven. I'm not a prize to be won. I'm not the princess that needs rescuing from the dragon. I'm the prince and I kill my own monsters. You need to be ok with that. -Anita Blake Laurell K. Hamilton
Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it." - Seth Godin
Did you win your sword fight?"Of course I won the fucking sword fight," Hiro says. "I'm the greatest sword fighter in the world."And you wrote the software."Yeah. That, too," Hiro says. Neal Stephenson
I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually thought neither of us knew it at the time, chess games... Come from the South, blow from the wind -- poom!-- North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen. Amy Tan
Sun Tzu quote: "Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in..."
Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting. Sun Tzu
Red Auerbach quote: "If you're keeping score, win."
If you're keeping score, win. Red Auerbach
So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh. At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues. Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too--Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out--And take upon 's the mystery of things. As if we were God's spies... William Shakespeare
John Madden quote: "at the end of the game the team with the most points on the..."
at the end of the game the team with the most points on the board is going to win. John Madden
Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they're exhausted. From enjoyment comes the will to win. Arthur Lydiard
This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?"And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins. John Steinbeck
Voodoo GirlHer skin is white cloth, and she's all sewn apartand she has many colored pinssticking out of her heart. She has many different zombieswho are deeply in her trance. She even has a zombiewho was originally from France. But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone getstoo close to her, the pins stick farther in. Tim Burton
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of effort, labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not the the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. Theodore Roosevelt
Doug Coupland quote: "Always keep your mouth shut with a drunk. You can never win..."
Always keep your mouth shut with a drunk. You can never win with piss tanks. The most you can hope for is to break even. Doug Coupland
You've turned to wood, he observed, "you've not only renounced life, your own interests and society's, your duty as a citizen and a human being, your friends (all the same you did have them), you've not only renounced any goal whatsoever apart from winning, but you've even renounced your memories. I remember you in an ardent and strong moment of your life; but I'm sure you've forgotten all your best impressions then; your dreams, your most essential desires at present don't go beyond pair... Fyodor Dostoevsky

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