Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed McBain

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

Eliot Spitzer

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.

Deepak Chopra

On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you. Evolution is win-win…life is self-correcting.

Dirk Nowitzki

Obviously, (winning the division) is big. To be No. 1 is always important..

Dizzy Dean

Me and Paul (Dean) will probably win forty games (they won forty-nine).

Dizzy Gillespie

Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.

Didier Drogba

When you don't win games, yeah, you lose confidence. That's normal.

Didier Drogba

I think finals are there to be won, you know the feeling of losing a final is really bad. I prefer to lose a semi-final, quarter-final because I know I will forget... But the feeling of losing a final stays here forever. Even if you win two, three, four, five it stays. You know, I’m too scared to lose, so I give everything to win.

Dave Ramsey

Investing is important, but get debt-free first. That's what frees up your income so you can win.

Dave Ramsey

We live in a culture full of hares; but the tortoise always wins.

Dave Ramsey

You can't be in debt and win. It doesn't work.

Dave Ramsey

Knock out a small debt first so you get a quick win. Momentum is key.

Dave Ramsey

Debt gives you the ability to look like you’re winning when you’re not.

Dave Ramsey

Winning at money is 80 percent behavior and 20 percent head knowledge. What to do isn’t the problem; doing it is. Most of us know what to do, but we just don’t do it. If I can control the guy in the mirror, I can be skinny and rich.

David Niven

Ultra competitive people who always need to win end up enjoying things less.

Abdul Kalam

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

Shaquille O'Neal

It matters in a fatherly way.

Alexander the Great

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Adlai E. Stevenson

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Adolf Hitler

I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.

Adam Schiff

Terrific. Now to win a larceny trial all we have to do is prove how the universe ends.

Angie Stone

When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

Andy Irons

If you dont see me on tour, its because I have found happiness away from winning, and that might be the biggest achievement I could ever accomplish.

Andy Gray

My history's not very good, but did David win?

Andy Gray

If England had Fergie, Wenger or Mourinho in charge, they would win the World Cup.

Andy Gray

Well you can't win the lottery if you don't have a ticket

Andy Grove

The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.

Andrew Marvell

How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree. Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all flow'rs and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose.

Andrew Marvell

How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree.

Allen Iverson

I would rather win than have good sportsmanship.

Allan Sherman

Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.

Allan Bloom

There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and doing no voluntary harm to anyone. Those are all things easy to say and hard to do; they do not attract much attention, and win little honor in the world.

Andy Bechtolsheim

Over the long term, absent of other barriers, economics always win.