Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nora Roberts

Winning can be addictive

Nora Roberts

What’s the point of playing if winning isn’t the goal?

Nikos Kazantzakis

Cursed be all those on land and sea who eat their fill, cursed be all those who starve yet raise no hand in protest, cursed be all the bread, the wine, the meat which day by day descends deep in the entrails of the exploited man and turns not into freedom's cry, the murderer's ruthless knife!

Nicole Kidman

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

Nasser Hussain

Australia played some good cricket, but they have forgotten how to win.

Nas

I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You never win an argument until they attack your person.

Miranda Kerr

We all have wings, but it is up to each one of us to have the courage to fly

Miles Teller

So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was 'Rabbit Hole' and I got to work with incredible people, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, John Cameron Mitchell, and all the actors involved. So it's tough, man, because you want to have credibility.

Johnny Manziel

The Heisman attention has definitely been a little bit of a surprise. It's been out of my hands. It's something I'm not focused on. I'm focused on the season and trying to win as many games as possible.

John Woolman

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

John Wooden

My bench never heard me mention winning. My whole emphasis was for each one of my players to try to learn to execute the fundamentals to the best of their ability. Not to try to be better than somebody else, but to learn from others, and never cease trying to be the best they could be; that's what I emphasized more than anything else.

John Wooden

Winning games, titles and championships isn't all it's cracked up to be, but getting there, the journey, is a lot more than it's cracked up to be.

John Wooden

Winning breeds winning.

John Wooden

Too many people look on outscoring someone as winning, I never tried to get that across to my players.

John Wooden

If there's anything you could point out where I was a little different, it was the fact that I never mentioned winning.

John Wooden

We don’t have to be superstars or win championships…. All we have to do is learn to rise to every occasion, give our best effort, and make those around us better as we do it.

John Wooden

You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game, and you can win when you're outscored.

You were going to win when I wrote it anyway,

Pat Riley

You've got to have some wins like that.

All we've got to do is win games.

This has nothing to do with the Fed. This is all end-of-quarter window dressing.

Elizabeth Smart

How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I am indeed and mortally pierced with the seeds of love.

Paulo Freire

The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over.

Philip Roth

I’m interested in what people do with the chaos in their lives and how they respond to it, and simultaneously what they do with what they feel like are limitations. If they push against these limitations, will they wind up in the realm of chaos, or will they push against limitations and wind up in the world of freedom?

Philip James Bailey

The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.

Peter Agre

The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.

Penelope Mitchell

I uprooted my life from Australia and came over to America with the idea of pursuing my acting career. I wasn't really sure where I would end up. I threw caution to the wind.

Penn Jillette

If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.

Pee Wee Reese

Being Captain of the Dodgers meant representing an organization committed to winning and trying to keep it going. We could have won every year if the breaks had gone right.

Paulo Coelho

Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honor of losing and the joy of winning.

Paulo Coelho

Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.