WINNING quotes - simply inspirational!

WINNING quotes – simply inspirational!

 

"Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about."

–Tom Chappel

 

"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them – every day begin the task anew."

– Saint Francis de Sales

 

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."

 - Aristotle

 

"All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means… you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else."

 - Vince Lombardi

 

"Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is."

 - Zig Ziglar

 

"The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them."

 - Denis Waitley

 

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."

 - Bertie C. Forbes

 

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."

 - Roger Bannister

 

"You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose."

 - Charles Lynch

 

"Those that know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories."

 - Polybius

 

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

 - Thomas Paine

 

"Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top."

 - D.A. Benton

 

"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."

 - Muhammad Ali

 

"The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell."

 - Andrew Carnegie

 

"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 by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."

 - Abraham Lincoln

 

"Never let defeat have the last word."

 - Tibetan Proverb

 

"Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser."

 - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

 

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."

 - Vince Lombardi

 

"The man who wins may have been counted out several times, but he didn't hear the referee."

H. E. Jansen

 

"Nobody remembers who came in second."

 - Charles Schulz

 

"That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning."

 - Richard David Bach

 

"If any thing goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you."

 - Paul "Bear" Bryant

 

"If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are."

 - Paul "Bear" Bryant

 

"Everybody is born with an equal chance to become just as unequal as he or she possibly can."

 - Anonymous

 

"Winners dwell on and hold the self-image of that person they would most like to become. They get a vivid, clear, emotional, sensory picture of themselves as if they had already achieved their new role in life."

 - Anonymous

 

"If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record."

 - Jan McKeithen

 

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

 - Anonymous