Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Winning

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right—stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State

Don’t believe that winning is really everything. It’s more important to stand for something. If you don’t stand for something, what do you win?
Lane Kirkland (1922–99) American Labor Leader

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
Polybius (c.200–c.118 BCE) Greek Historian

Victory is won not in miles, but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more.
Louis L’Amour (1908–88) American Novelist, Short-story Writer

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that’s more productive.
Donald Trump (b.1946) American Businessperson, Head of State

The game is the thing. The wins and losses are not the thing. One loses every time one wins, for he then has no game.
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–86) American Scientologist Religious Leader, Novelist, Author

They always win who side with God.
Frederick William Faber (1814–63) British Hymn Writer, Theologian

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) Scottish-American Industrialist

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
Laozi (fl.6th Century BCE) Chinese Philosopher, Sage

Don’t fight a battle if you don’t gain anything by winning.
George S. Patton (1885–1945) American Military Leader

If you’re going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?
Bruce Jenner (b.1949) American Sportsperson

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi (1913–70) American Football Coach

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
Arthur Ashe (1943–93) American Tennis Player

Winning isn’t everything. Wanting to is.
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher

You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
Marian Wright Edelman (b.1939) American Civil Regrets Advocate, Humanitarian, Lawyer

The only way to be number one is to be number one.
Indian Proverb

After the fact, our hearts always go out to the fallen Goliaths. Yet we invariably root for their Davids. Until they’re winners.
Malcolm S. Forbes (1919–1990) American Publisher, Businessperson

Nothing can seem foul to those who win.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

Winner expects to win in advance. Life is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Indian Proverb

Often, the best way to win is to forget to keep score.
Marianne Espinosa Murphy American Judge, Politician

The cheerful loser is the winner.
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.
George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
Richard Nixon (1913–94) American Head of State, Lawyer

If you can accept losing you can’t win. If you can walk you can run. No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in your mind.
Vince Lombardi, Jr. (1913–70) American Football Player, Coach

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) American Nationalist, Author, Pamphleteer, Radical, Inventor

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.
Bum Phillips (1923–2013) American Football Coach

Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth.
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Irish Satirist

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.
Denis Waitley (b.1933) American Motivational Speaker, Author

From quiet homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There’s nothing worth the winning,
But laughter and the love of friends.
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) British Historian, Poet, Critic

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