Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aesop

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

Jan Brewer

I have a pretty good record of winning in court.

Jamie Redknapp

You want to win things and I am at a club where we have the players to do that.

Jamie Redknapp

We need to win something for the fans because they have been patient and very understanding and we owe them.

Jamie Redknapp

As I say, you get labeled. To stop all that, I've got to win things - that's the only way you make your mark.

Richard G. Scott

Stay on the Lord's side, and you will win every time.

Brent Weeks

Durzo pulled out a gold Gunder from his pouch. Crowns Roth wins, Castles I lose. He flipped the coin. It bounced on the table and, impossibly, landed on edge. There´s always another choice, Kylar said.

Branch Rickey

First of all, a man, whether seeking achievement on the athletic field or in business, must want to win. He must feel that the thing he is doing is worthwhile; so worthwhile that he is willing to pay the price of success to attain distinction.

Boris Becker

Winning is a way of expressing yourself.

Boris Becker

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

Boris Johnson

I want to win and I want to be in office.

Bobby Sherman

If you've got talent, stick with it... because talent wins out, without a doubt.

Bob Cousy

I once heard that Paul Seymour said as much as winning an NBA Championship, he'd like to see the Celtics lose a game after Auerbach brought out the cigar so he could go up to Arnold and stuff the cigar in his face.

Bob Dylan

For the loser now Will be later to win

Bob Dylan

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile and the rest of us are f--ed until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. We owe that to ourselves and our crippled self-image as something better than a nation of panicked sheep.

Bob Dylan

Advertising signs: they con you into thinking you're the one That can do what's never been done That can win what's never been won Meantime life outside goes on all around you

Billy Connolly

For me, it's about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.

Billy Corgan

As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.

Bode Miller

Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.

Bode Miller

There's so many guys skiing so fast right now that you really have to be willing to take a lot of risks if you want to give yourself a chance to win. I'm prepared to do it; it's just a matter of if I can make it work.

Bode Miller

That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths. Obviously, it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's awesome either way.

Bode Miller

Despite all the pressure and the caliber of accomplishment, I still can honestly say that it's not all about winning.

Bode Miller

The way I judge myself is not on how many World Cups I can win in a row.

Bode Miller

Sometimes it's all about the win, sometimes it's about the skiing.

Bobby Fischer

If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.

Bobby Fischer

The Russians have held my title for ten years and they're going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They're going to have to wait and play under my conditions.

Bobby Fischer

If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

Bobby Fischer

The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.

Bruce Feiler

You don't need a grand plan, you don't need to go back to the ancestors and rewrite the rules. You just need to take small steps and accumulate small wins.

Brendon Burchard

Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.

I think a lot of us are looking for the same thing. I feel very lucky to have a definitive moment where I know everything shifted in me, and it was the moment I read that quote. Because I thought, A. That's everything I know about vulnerability. It's not winning, it's not losing, it's showing up and being seen. B. That's who I want to be.

Vulnerability is not about winning, and it's not about losing. It's about having the courage to show up and be seen.

Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don't matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends.