Orson Scott Card Quotes about Winning

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It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor .

It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor . . . I fought to win.

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Life, Fighting, Winning

Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.143, Macmillan

You want to beat Peter?" she asked "No," he answered "Beat the buggers. Then come home and see who notices Peter Wiggen anymore. Look him in the eye when all the world loves and reveres you. That'll be defeat in his eyes, Ender, thats how you win" "You don't understand" he said "Yes i do" "No you don't. I don't want to beat Peter" "Then what do you want?" "I want him to love me

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Eye, Home, Winning

He's not a killer. He just wins... Thoroughly

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Winning, Killers, Killing

That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

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Winning, Problem, Ender

Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.145, Macmillan

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

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Fear, Winning, Men

Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.91, Macmillan

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

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Winning, Firsts, Winner

Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.206, Macmillan

I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.

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Ignorance, Hard Times, Winning

Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.236, Macmillan

Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.

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Loyalty, Winning, Rooms

Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.89, Macmillan

But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important they’d risk a shuttle and it’s crew just to catch me? I find that quite… flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain.

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Winning, Naughty, Risk

Orson Scott Card (2003). “Shadow Puppets”, p.333, Macmillan

But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?

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War, Winning, Stupidity

Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.117, Macmillan

Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.

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War, Lying, Winning

Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.50, Macmillan

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

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Fighting, Winning, Enders Game

Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.21, Macmillan

Humanity does not ask to be happy.It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, , but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

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Ambition, Winning, Humanity

Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.173, Macmillan

Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God uses it to serve his own Rigteous purposes." "So God uses wicked people as his tools?" "God gives us the freedom to to do great evil, if we choose, then He uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what He chooses." "So, in the long run, God always wins?" "Yes, in the short run though it can be uncomfortable.

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Running, Clever, Winning

Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.509, Tor Science Fiction