Home / Topics / Winning Quotes

Winning Quotes

Browse 9700 quotes about Winning.

Winning Quotes

“The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.”

Way Mind Art Self Body Artist Fighting Winning Emotion Situation Health Buddhism Art Is Martial Arts Combat Mastery Self Mastery Athletics Mind Body Martial Artist

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.”

People Needs Art Book Self Might Choices Winning Energy Social Easy Views Media Social Media Self Worth Likes Followers Venture

Author:Neil Strauss

“But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning.”

Self Winning Successful Patient Crowds Guilty Destructive Investors Be Patient Self Destructive

Author:Andrew Tobias

“Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ."”

Self Christian Winning Lost Christ Believer Christian Inspirational

Author:Vance Havner

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

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.”

Ifs Self Winning Perfect Masters Victory Discipline Triumph Mastery You Can Win

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.”

Self Success Winning Effort Self Esteem Fit Favors Esteem Hopeful Superiority Precise Mediocre Cliche Solace Physically Fit

Author:Bobby Knight

“The biggest thing for me is the self-satisfaction of winning the race. I don't care about who gets the most attention. I've achieved something that's very special to me.”

Self Care Winning Race Attention Special Satisfaction Don't Care I Don't Care Self-satisfaction Special To Me Winning The Race

Author:Dan Wheldon

“In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results. And better results help us increase our credibility and self-confidence, which leads to more positive self-expectancy, and more winning - and the upward cycle continues. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

Source: The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

“Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability can flourish.”

Self Together Winning Individual Environment Team Elements Structure Agreement Accountability Stewardship Glue Win Win

Book:First Things First

Source: First Things First

“Losing ... really does say something about who you are. Among other things it measures are: do you blame others, or do you own the loss? Do you analyze your failure, or just complain about bad luck? If you're willing to examine failure, and to look not just at your outward physical performance, but your internal workings, too, losing can be valuable. How you behave in those moments can perhaps be more self-defining than winning could ever be. Sometimes losing shows you for who you really are.”

Ifs Looks Doe Self Sometimes Moments Shows Winning Loss Willing Losing Performances Blame Luck Who You Are Valuable Complaining Behave Internals Defining Bad Luck

Author:Lance Armstrong

“The reputation of a Don Juan gives to a man the most dangerous power. Wise virgins resist it, but foolish virgins frequently yield to the desire to take a celebrated lover from a rival - even from a friend. This emotion is a complex one, mad up of vanity, respect for another woman's taste, and the need to establish self-assurance by winning a difficult victory. Don Juan chose his first mistresses; later he was chosen.”

“Those enjoying winning streaks thus win twofold. They win not only the game but also the right to greater self-determination. They become masters of their own fate. That feeling of efficacy, of being in charge of circumstances, is the essence of confidence. Winning once or twice is encouraging, but winning continuously is empowering.”

Self Feelings Games Winning Enjoy Greater Fate Masters Confidence Circumstances Determination Essence Empowering Self Determination Streaks Efficacy

Book:Confidence

Source: Confidence

“Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive in their image; this philistine romanticism established the bourgeois hero-prototype the penniless office-boy who works his way to economic fortune and this wins his way into the mercantile plutocracy.”

Men Way Self Helping Found Winning Boys Economic Self Help Hero Office Fortune Strive Portraits Gallery Bourgeois Vigorous Romanticism Prototype Philistines Utilitarianism Plutocracy

Author:John Carroll

“By the Revolution the Germans have made themselves pariahs among the nations, incapable of winning allies, helots in the service of foreigners and foreign capital, and deprived of all self-respect. In twenty years' time, the German people will curse the parties who now boast of having made the Revolution.”

People Years Made Self Winning Nations Party Revolution Twenties Curse Self Respect Allies Incapable Boast Deprived Foreigners Pariahs

Author:Erich Ludendorff

“Faith in the continuance and enhancement of the intrinsic values--faith in truth, in beauty, in friendship, in love and harmony of life--in short, faith in reason and the worth of spiritual life--such faith is only another name for faith in the persistence of spiritual individuality. For, I repeat, these values are real only as functions of personal experience and deed. To have faith in the permanence of intrinsic values is to assume the enduring reality of selves who know truth, feel beauty, who love and win spiritual harmony.”

“For me, life is about continuously being hungry. It's meaning is not simply to just exist or to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. We all have great power. That power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.”

Want Doe Self Moving Life Is Winning Attitude Struggle Achieve Surrender Hungry Conquer Hardship Great Power Moving Ahead Great Bodybuilding

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“If you get in a battle with someone, you don't get their power if you win. Power is something that you have to acquire yourself, through self-inquiry and the practice of meditation.”

Ifs Self Winning Practice Meditation Buddhism Battle Acquire Inquiry

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think if my eight-year-old self could see me at the Royal Albert Hall winning a prize for playing the Doctor on telly, he would need a stiff shot of Irn-Bru.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Years Self Winning Shots Doctors Eight Prize Halls Royal Old Self

Author:David Tennant

“Self-esteem can’t win you a race if you’re not in shape.”

Ifs Self Winning Race Self Esteem Shapes Esteem Can't Win

Author:Louis Zamperini

“To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.”

Book Self Character Order Winning Duty Battle Behavior Provinces Tranquillity

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“To become a token woman - whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters - is to become something less than a man... since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.”

Men World Self Law Winning Interest Views Cost Prize Brotherhood Loyal Self Interest Nobel Nobel Prize Tokens World View Tenure

Author:Adrienne Rich

“If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What is this self-love? Where does this come from? It got worse, because after the war we thought we'd won it. That's the first myth. Frankly, Russia won it. The Soviet Union sacrificed far greater form than anyone else to win that war. Secondly, we had the atomic bomb. We should not have dropped it on Japan. We did as an example to the Soviets, not to defeat Japan and to save American lives. These are myths that we explode with a lot of research early on.”

“I think that sometimes the difference between winning and losing, success and failure, is this gray line between will, passion and self-belief that says, 'I'm going to do this'.”

Thinking Self Sometimes Passion Winning Belief Differences Lines Losing Gray Success And Failure Winning And Losing Belief In Self

Author:Howard Schultz

“Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.”

War Self Winning Fashion Revolution Mouths Revolutionary

Author:Toni Cade Bambara

“It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

Ifs Thinking Self Seems Turns Winning Fulfilling Prophecy Self Fulfilling Prophecy

Author:Sam Walton

“Winning the men's confidence requires much of a commander. He must exercise care and caution, look after his men, live under the same hardships, and-above all- apply self discipline. But once he has their confidence, his men will follow him through hell and high water.”

Men Looks Self Care Winning Water Hell He Man Discipline Exercise Hardship Self Discipline Caution Commanders

Author:Erwin Rommel

“Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else.”

Self Philosophy Political Next Politics Winning Term Election Governing Self Centered Term Limits

Book:Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

Source: Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders