Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Allen

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Who longest wait of all surely wins.

John Milton

Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be free? more just it is, doubtless, if it come to force, that a less number compel a greater to retain, which can be no wrong to them, their liberty, than that a greater number, for the pleasure of their baseness, compel a less most injuriously to be their fellow-slaves. They who seek nothing but their own just liberty, have always right to win it and to keep it, whenever they have power, be the voices never so numerous that oppose it.

Norman Jewison

I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.

Norman Jewison

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

Norman Cousins

He who keeps his cool best wins.

Norm MacDonald

Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.

Nina Garcia

She who dies with the most stilettos wins.

Mitch Albom

In business people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.

Mike Weir

You can be six behind on the back nine and still win the tournament.

Mike Tyson

I just did what I did in my era, basically because of my admiration for the guys who came before me. That's how I've always looked at it. I never thought of boxing like, I'm going to be the greatest fighter ever and make a lot of money. Instead, I thought I was going to win because I learned from the best. I carefully studied the videotapes of all the fighters from the past, dissected their styles, and entered the ring with their spirit.

Mike Tyson

Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.

Mike Tyson

Every punch I threw with bad intentions to a vital area...I aimed for his ear...I wanted to bust his eardrum...Every punch had bad intentions...My record will last for immortality, It'll never be broken...I want to live forever...I refuse to lose...I would have to be carried out dead to lose...I was coming to destroy and win the Heavyweight Championship of the World, which I done.

Mike Tyson

They say I can't lose. I say you can't win!

Miguel de Cervantes

Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.

Miguel de Cervantes

They who lose today may win tomorrow.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

This past year, we received our second Emmy nomination for Outstanding Informational Series. While we'd all like to win, I can say with utmost sincerity that it mattered more to me that we got noticed than whether or not we win.

John Waters

If you can make someone laugh who's dead set against you, that's the first step to winning them over to your side.

John Thorn

Life is more about losing than winning.

John Perry Barlow

New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.

John Pilger

I love irony in pictures. There's one photograph from Vietnam by Philip Jones Griffiths that shows a very large GI having his pocket picked by a tiny Vietnamese woman. It told the whole story of the clash of two cultures and how the invader could never win.

John Podhoretz

The 2004 presidential election that saw George W. Bush win with 51 percent of the vote was the last one Republicans will ever win with the overwhelmingly white and male coalition they have now.

John Podhoretz

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

John Podhoretz

You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three.

Lester B. Pearson

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

Friedrich Schiller

Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.

Friedrich Schiller

He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I pledge you, pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and of courage. This is more than a political campaign; it is a call to arms. Give me your help, not to win votes alone, but to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The American People in their Righteous Might will win through to Absolute Victory.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

George Foreman

I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Jojo Moyes

There is a whole lot more to life than winning.