Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Paulo Coelho

Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood.

Martin Scorsese

It’s also true that I might have never made Taxi Driver [1976] were it not for the success of Alice [Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, 1974]. The question of commercialism is a source of worry. Must one make a choice, must it be a matter of either setting your sights on winning an Academy Award and becoming a millionaire, or making only the movies you want to make and starving to death?

Marlee Matlin

I'm not really deaf; I just faked it to win the Oscar KIDDING.

Mariska Hargitay

I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I win.

Maria Sharapova

There's not many firsts in my career, as I have been a part of many tournaments and fortunate enough to win many.

Maria Sharapova

I'm 17 years old and there are many great things ahead. If I don't win the U.S. Open this year, it's not going to be a disaster in my life.

Maria Sharapova

Tennis has never been the most important thing in my life. My family, my health, my happiness...they are more important to me. On court, I want to win. Off court, I want to be a better person. Tennis is a path to my future.

Maria Sharapova

I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy being settled and working my butt off and trying to win grand slams.

Maria Sharapova

I'm not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!

Maria Sharapova

When you start from nothing, when you come from nothing, it makes you hungry. I am proud of where I came from and I know what I want. I want to win.

Maria Sharapova

People always ask about young people like me being forced into things. I play tennis because I love it. I think Russians might be tougher than other people. When I arrived in America I was young, but I already knew what I wanted. I think that when you start from nothing, when you come from nothing, it makes you hungry. I am proud of where I came from and I know what I want. I want to win.

Maria Sharapova

Whether you win a match or lose a match, in terms of your emotions, it's important to be pretty levelheaded.

Megan Fox

Women hold the power because we have the vaginas. If you're in a heterosexual relationship and you're a female, you win.

Megan Fox

I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

Max Lucado

No matter who wins, God is still sovereign regardless if my preferred candidate wins or not.

Maurice Saatchi

The Tories win elections when they lead on economic competence.

Maurice Saatchi

I don’t have to win. I just have to make you lose.

Maurice Ashley

Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that we have to learn to be able to do

Maureen McCormick

But to win, I was overwhelmed - it felt great! I was really excited. I didn't expect it, but I'm also really competitive. As soon as I hear the word "competition" I get serious and start doing everything that I can do.

Maureen Johnson

This pool is a triumph of imagination. That's how you win at life, Gin. You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done. There's always a solution, even if it's weird.

Matt Millen

I can't root for Jimmie Johnson to win the Nextel Cup b/c of all of his Super Bowl wins.

John Quincy Adams

Whoever tells the best story wins.

John Paul Jones

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

John Paul Jones

He who will not risk cannot win.

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.