Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Peguy

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Dick Van Dyke

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

Diane Lane

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.

Eduardo Galeano

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

Ben Jonson

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.

Bas Rutten

I am there for the best interests of the fighters, I want them to win. If they don’t accept that, bye bye.

Eddie Vedder

If 'little George Dubya Bush' wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship.

Ed McBain

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

Eliot Spitzer

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.

Deepak Chopra

On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you. Evolution is win-win…life is self-correcting.

Dirk Nowitzki

Obviously, (winning the division) is big. To be No. 1 is always important..

Dizzy Dean

Me and Paul (Dean) will probably win forty games (they won forty-nine).

Dizzy Gillespie

Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.

Didier Drogba

When you don't win games, yeah, you lose confidence. That's normal.

Didier Drogba

I think finals are there to be won, you know the feeling of losing a final is really bad. I prefer to lose a semi-final, quarter-final because I know I will forget... But the feeling of losing a final stays here forever. Even if you win two, three, four, five it stays. You know, I’m too scared to lose, so I give everything to win.

Dave Ramsey

Investing is important, but get debt-free first. That's what frees up your income so you can win.

Dave Ramsey

We live in a culture full of hares; but the tortoise always wins.

Dave Ramsey

You can't be in debt and win. It doesn't work.

Dave Ramsey

Knock out a small debt first so you get a quick win. Momentum is key.

Dave Ramsey

Debt gives you the ability to look like you’re winning when you’re not.

Dave Ramsey

Winning at money is 80 percent behavior and 20 percent head knowledge. What to do isn’t the problem; doing it is. Most of us know what to do, but we just don’t do it. If I can control the guy in the mirror, I can be skinny and rich.

David Niven

Ultra competitive people who always need to win end up enjoying things less.

Abdul Kalam

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

Shaquille O'Neal

It matters in a fatherly way.

Ludwig von Mises

The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent on the will of the people as consumers. Thus, whenever there is a conflict between the consumers' views and those of the business managers, market pressures assure that the views of the consumers win out eventually.

Alexander the Great

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Dennis Johnson

We didn't have any expectations. I wasn't worried about winning or losing.

Aberjhani

Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.

Aaron Levie

In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.

Aaron Levie

The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.

Aaron Levie

Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.

Aaron Rodgers

If we can string together some wins this year, maybe I'll be a close second-or third behind Bart Starr-on their favorite quarterback list.