Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Gray

From toil he wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.

Tim Tebow

If you do base your life on how many touchdowns you score, how many championships you win, then when you have a setback, then when you have an injury, you're not playing, or something goes wrong, your self-worth goes down.

Tim Tebow

You and I were created by God to be so much more than normal…Following the crowd is not a winning approach to life. In the end it’s a loser’s game, because we never become who God created us to be by trying to be like everybody else.

Tim Bishop

Transportation spending is a win-win proposition.

Tim Burton

But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick further in.

Thomas Kyd

Fear shall force what friendship cannot win.

Thomas Friedman

You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.

Thomas Friedman

American young people have got to understand from an early age that the world pays off on results, not on effort. Not everyone should win a prize no matter where he or she finishes.

Rebecca Lobo

Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.

Vin Scully

That is the way this game is -- you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer.

Vin Diesel

IT don't matter if you win by an inch or a milewinning is winning!!

Vijay Singh

I'm going to go out and play really hard. If I have another win, it will be icing on the cake. But I don't take anything for granted.

Vijay Singh

The way you play, you need to talk about winning. Don't talk about keeping your card - talk about winning.

Vijay Singh

It never really crossed my mind that I was ever going to win a major. I always said that if you win a major, that's fine. If you don't, you tried your best.

Vijay Singh

Whenever you're in a position to win, you don't want to let it go.

Vijay Singh

You win one and then you win another. You feel more comfortable and more confident, and it snowballs. You can't wait to get to the next hole and play better.

Viggo Mortensen

A lot of times, movies that are in the top 10 lists or maybe even win Baftas or Oscars, you then watch them a year later and you go, 'Maybe it wasn't so great.'

Victoria Azarenka

Awkward gestures, clumsy gestures, fist pumps. I just do whatever I feel like is right in the moment. If I need to be hyped, I'm hyped. If I need to talk to myself, I talk to myself. Whatever it takes to win, I'm going to do it.

Victor Cruz

I want to win championships.

Victor Hugo

Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.

Richard Bach

In order to win, you must expect to win.

Richard Bach

Life's battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.

Robert Foster Bennett

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win - win situation.

Robert Fulghum

About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!

Rick Mears

You've got to learn a pace that's fast enough to win, but slow enough to finish.

Richard Trumka

And, you know, money is - the money edge is really dangerous to democracy. Because what you have right now - people have said to me that, look, you'll always be outspent, so how can you ever win?

Richard Marcinko

For the past weeks I'd been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You instigate the action. You make the opponent react to you.

Richard Dreyfuss

Tabouli is the best salad, but still, you don't win friends with salad

Thucydides

The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.

Thomas S. Monson

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Thomas Sowell

Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.

Thomas Sowell

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Robert Mitchum

Sure I was glad to see John Wayne win the Oscar I'm always glad to see the fat lady win the Cadillac on TV, too.