Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tacitus

Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.

Tacitus

Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.

Sylvia Plath

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

Swami Vivekananda

"If you die, you get to heaven; and if you win, you enjoy the earth" (Gita). Even if you die in this attempt, well and good, many will take up the work, following your example. And if you succeed, you will live a life of great opulence.

Ron Dennis

As I've always said, McLaren exists to win, and win we will.

Ron Howard

Death can be experienced once, winning maybe more, but losing can happen all the time.

Ron Fournier

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most influential woman in Washington - for what she has accomplished and for what she may yet do: win the presidency.

Tom Robbins

I'll bet I'm as old as you are." "I'm older than Sanskrit." "Well, I was waitress at the Last Supper." "I'm so old I remember when McDonald's had only sold a hundred burgers." "You win.

Tom Lehman

I think its easy to enjoy anywhere that you play where you feel like you got a chance to win a lot.

Tom Kristensen

Le Mans takes the best out of everyone. Winning is important but it's not everything. It's such a big and great event in motorsport. You do more kilometres in that one race than Formula One do in a season, and probably a higher average speed. We average about 220km/h including pit stops and cover nearly 5000km.

Tom Kristensen

Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.

Tom Landry

...even after you've just won the Super Bowl -- especially after you've just won the Super Bowl -- there's always next year. If Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing, then the only thing is nothing -- emptiness, the nightmare of life without ultimate meaning.

Tom Krause

How a person wins and loses is much more important than how much a person wins and loses.

Todd Helton

The reason we are at the ballpark is to win that day's game, and we don't need to be concerned with anything else during the time we are in uniform. It makes things a lot simpler, a lot easier.

Todd Gitlin

To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.

Todd Haynes

I hope it's water under the bridge, but Richard Carpenter is a complicated individual, and he's also entitled to his own opinion on how his sister is depicted. The film has lived on and survived, and to me is ultimately is an affectionate celebration of Karen Carpenter. I hope that wins out in the end.

Tony Fernandes

Winning is an amazing feeling. You dont get that in business; you dont get that in many things.

Tony Gonzalez

I'd rather just stay quiet and play the game. Winning is hard enough as it is.

Tony Gonzalez

I don't like second place; I'm out there trying to win everything.

Tony Gonzalez

If I can drop two touchdowns a game and win, I'll take it every time.

Steve Prefontaine

If you can't win your race, make sure the guy ahead of you breaks the record.

Steve Goodman

If the Cubs were to win (The World Series) it would be a coronary event for me.

Sterling Marlin

The guys have a lot of good cars built up. We're going to do some more testing before we go back to Las Vegas and try to win at Vegas again. We need to get off to a quick start.

Steve Backley

It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.

Stephen Covey

I win the private victory when I have made my mind up and commit to live by correct principles and to serve worthy purposes.

Stephen Covey

Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way; it's a better way, a higher way.

Stephen Covey

Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

Stephen Covey

Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.

Tony Lema

Let's see, I think I right now I'm third in the money-winning and first in money-spending.

Tony La Russa

The best way to win is to play well early or late in the game. The middle part tends to take care of itself.

Tony La Russa

Play the game right. If you play the game intelligently and execute the fundamentals, you can win.

Tony La Russa

It's like most anything. If you want to be a loser, there's always a way to dwell on the negative. If you want to win, there's always a way to think positively.

Tony Hsieh

If there are too many competitors, even if you're the best it's a lot harder to win.