Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.”
“You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.”
“You win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone whos just going to be a little different than the person in there. If youre going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk with what may be the Etch A Sketch candidate of the future.”
“You win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do a lot.”
“You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.”
“You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.”
“You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.”
“You win,” he panted. His fingers tightened on her hips as he shoved her back into the wall and kept her there. “I’m yours. Be gentle.”
Source: Betraying Innocence
“You win in life when you are able to convert all your disappearing time or the disappearing life into products.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“You win more friends by granting a favor than by asking for one.”
Source: Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“You win one and then you win another. You feel more comfortable and more confident, and it snowballs. You can't wait to get to the next hole and play better.”
“You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.”
“You win over people just like you win over a dog. You see a dog passing down the street with an old bone in his mouth. You don't grab the bone from him and tell him it's not good for him. He'll growl at you. It's the only thing he has. But you throw a big fat lamb chop in front of him, and he's going to drop that bone and pick up the lamb chop, his tail wagging to beat the band. And you've got a friend. Instead of going around grabbing bones from people... I'm going to throw them some lamb chops. Something with real meat and life in it. I'm going to tell them about New Beginnings.”
“You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.”
“You win people's hearts by helping them grow personally.”
Source: Developing the Leader Within You
“You win some and you lose some. Unless you're Virgil, then you lose them all.”
“You win some, you lose most. But you do win some.”
Source: Bonesland
“You win some, you lose some, but no matter what, you keep playing the game.”
Source: The Problem with Players
“You win some, you lose some, let Karma takes its course… - Cocoy McCoy -”
“You win some, you lose some. You try and sometimes fail. You grind, grin, and win. You love and remember loss. Everyday is a new day. Every moment another chance. Every road a new sight. All that matters is that you keep going. Stay as present as you can. Spend your time well. Choose your emotions as much as you can. But above all, choose love as much as you can. Forgive sincerely. Laugh fully. Hug closely. Kiss deeply. Leave nothing unsaid. Look straight into stars and sunsets and tears. Hold on. Hold each other. Hold close to all that matters to your heart. To dreams and smiles and people. The rodeo is life. You’re the rider. Saddle up, ride hard, and hold on tight. But whatever you do. Just keep on riding.”
“You win some, you lose some, you wreck some.”
“You win some, lose some, and wreck some.”
“You win some, you learn some.”
“You win some, you lose some, and you keep it to yourself.”
“You win some, you lose some, and your losses are never made up to you. She will simply have to do without; like it or not, she must face her losses and her helplessness to undo them.”
Source: IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS
“You win the fight by fighting.”
“You win the fight in the training camp, not on the day of the fight.”
“You win the lasting laurels with your laughter.”
“You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above all, by keeping at it, day after day, year after fiscal year, until stealing is legal again.”
“You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.”
“You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.”
“You win the victory when you yield to friends.”
Source: Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers
“You win them to what you win them with.”
“You win what you can win when you can win it, and keep pushing - all the time. And that's how this game is played. And I'll play it till I can't play it anymore.”
“You win when no one finds you, even if they're not looking.”
Source: The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On
“You win when you are able to convert that time into an investment, into seeds or fruits or products of cultivating your own land or products in other people’s lives.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“You win. You have always won.
All I can do is not go away.
Not go away is my name.”
Source: Not Go Away Is My Name
“You win your people or you lose your throne.”
Source: The Queen of the Tearling
“You win, you win. You lose, you still win.”
“You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.”
“You wind up listening to one song that you really like 30 times on YouTube and then you're done with it. That's the way it is.”
“You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.”
“You wish for what's called wooing. This customary game, where the man shows the woman that resistance is impractical, strikes me as quite pointless.”
Source: Divine and Dateless
“You wish someone to change for you even when you want someone who can let you be you.”
“You wish that you could move more rapidly and you have setbacks. You know, the AIDS epidemic was a huge setback for Africa, and it's only through generosity that we've avoided that just completely crippling an entire generation there.”
“You wish that you were able to flow beneath it, to become fluid, whether seawater, oil, or lava, and shuck off these rigid, impermeable outlines, which encase you like a coffin. Only that way might you find some form of release.”
Source: Human Acts
“You wish they understood, as you do, that there is no escape and never was, that from the moment two cells combined to become one they were doomed. You wish they understood that there is joy in this fact, greater joy and love in just this one last moment than they experienced in the entirety of their lives. Because even in this last moment there is still Everything, whole galaxies and eons, the sum total of every experience across time, shrunk to the head of a pin, theirs for the asking, right here, right now. And so anything, anything, anything is possible.”
“You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.”
“You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.”
Source: The Magus
“You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.”