A Quotes
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“A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.”
“A winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my goal and dreams I gave my best.”
“A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.”
“A winner is someone who sets their goals, commits themselves to those goals and then pursues their goals with all the ability that is given to them. That requires someone who beleives in themselves, who will make self sacrifices, work hard, and maintain the determination to perform at the best of their ability.”
“A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.”
“A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.”
Source: Leaving the Surface
“A winner listens, a loser just waits until it is their turn to talk.”
“A winner makes mistakes. A loser blames others for them.”
“A winner must first know what losing's like.”
“A winner never stops trying.”
“A winner never whines.”
“A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.”
“A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.”
Source: Leaving the Surface
“A winner’s mentality always works towards victory”
“A winner smiles and a looser cries. The God looks at them and says,'Sorry, guys!”
“A winner's attitude: it may be difficult, but it's possible. A loser's attitude: It may be possible, but it's too difficult.”
“A Winner's Blueprint for Achievement BELIEVE while others are doubting. PLAN while others are playing. STUDY while others are sleeping. DECIDE while others are delaying. PREPARE while others are daydreaming. BEGIN while others are procrastinating. WORK while others are wishing. SAVE while others are wasting. LISTEN while others are talking. SMILE while others are frowning. COMMEND while others are criticizing. PERSIST while others are quitting.”
“A winner, a champion, will accept his fate. He will continue with his wheels in the dirt. He will do his best to maintain his line and gradually get himself back on the track when it is safe to do so. Yes, he loses a few places in the race. Yes, he is at a disadvantage. But he i A winner, a champion, will accept his fate. He will continue with his wheels in the dirt. He will do his best to maintain his line and gradually get himself back on the track when it is safe to do so. Yes, he loses a few places in the race. Yes, he is at a disadvantage. But he is still racing. He is still alive”
“A winning attitude allows you to work on the things you can control.”
“A winning effort begins with preparation.”
“A winning SEO strategy is useless without a team that can deploy it daily”
Source: Scaling Your Digital Marketing Team: Business Is A Team Sport: Build smarter, scale faster, and lead your team to success in the AI-driven marketing landscape
“A winning strategy must include losing.”
“A winning team feels good and keeps winning. A team that hasn't won in a while gets demotivated and keeps losing.”
“A winning wave, (deserving note.)
In the tempestuous petticote,
A careless shoe-string, in whose tye
I see a wilde civility,--
Doe more bewitch me than when art
Is too precise in every part.”
“A winter storm. dramatic weather of any season often precipitates intimacy: two startled bodies seeking shelter in each other. On her livingroom couch Mrs. Moreno's bunched kimono rises & falls like a silken sea above her drowning Hispanic student.”
Source: Thirteen: Stories
“A winter without snow seems depressing, lacking.”
“A Winterian wielding an Autumnian weapon, using Cordellan allegiance to bring Spring crumbling down.”
Source: Snow Like Ashes
“A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.”
“A Wisdom almost never marries. Nynaeve has been teaching me, you know. She says I have a talent, that I can learn to listen to the wind. Nynaeve says not all Wisdoms can, even if they say they do.”
Source: The Eye of the World
“A wisdom as constant as the North Star shines within all of us. It is always present. waiting to be tapped, waiting to guide us, to advise us. We need only use it to prevent its atrophy. No matter what our background, profession, color, or religion, employing this universal compass, this innate sense of what we know to be true, will help us establish a lifelong foundation - a place we go to recover our sanity and to regain our balance.”
Source: In Lieu of Flowers: A Conversation for the Living
“A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.”
“A wise American has said that noise is the ultimate insult. It belittles us. It gives us nothing at which to strike back. It kills what is left of many things that we have loved - music, beauty, friendship, hope and excitement - and the reassurance of nature. Traditionally, noise is used to ridicule, embarrass, denigrate and curse, while silence is used for worship, respect, anticipation and love.”
Source: Journey through love
“A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called computer age.”
“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.”
Source: Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way
“A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.”
“A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to study the ways in which scientists have tried to analyze the world... THE BEST INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL HISTORY THAT HAS YET BEEN WRITTEN.”
“A wise answer is even more pleasing when it is a response to a foolish question.”
“A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.”
“A wise beautiful lake never desires to be famous, because fame dirty it! To remain pure, distance yourself from the reputation!”
“A wise bird does not lend even the smallest of its feathers to a hunter.”
“A wise board accumulates rational wisdom, embraces unconventional wisdom and sharpens system wisdom.”
Source: Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
“A wise business practice is to become a prolific note-taker if you aren’t already. When you’ve had a great conversation or interaction with someone—whether it is on a conference call, Skype, in a meeting, or even in passing—jot down a note or two about your time together. Then you can reference it the next time you see each other or speak again. Since most of us don’t have as extraordinary a memory as my friend Teresa Palm, taking notes is a smart and easy way to show that you are interested and care.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“A wise choice is surrounded by wisdom.”
Source: The Quote-DAH.: A Wise Choice was Surrounded by Wisdom.
“A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.”
“A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.”
“A wise fox will rule over an intelligent wolf.”
“A wise friend once told me, 'Don't wear what fashion designers tell you to wear. Wear what they wear.'”
Source: Bossypants
“A wise friend told me that we all could use more than one set of parents—our relations with the original set are too intense, and need dissipating.”
Source: Beautiful Girl: Stories
“A wise general makes a point of foraging of the enemy.”
Source: The Art of War
“A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”