Winning Quotes - Page 29

Be a harsh critic of your own wins.

I was actually pissed off. I wanted to go my entire ECW career without winning titles. The only reason I won titles is because guys left.

The Six W's: Work will win when wishing won't.

Soros is the best loss taker I've ever seen. He doesn't care whether he wins or loses on a trade. If a trade doesn't work, he's confident enough about his ability to win on other trades. There are a lot of shoes on the shelf; wear only the ones that fit. If you're extremely confident, taking a loss doesn't bother you.

Go in all simplicity; do not be anxious to win a quiet mind, and it will be all the quieter. Do not examine so closely into the progress of your soul. Do not crave too much to be perfect, but let your spiritual life beformed by your duties, and by the actions which are called forth by circumstances.

Instead of wanting to win, we expected to win. There's a lifetime between wanting something and expecting something. When you expect something, it means you've prepared, done the work, and EXPECT TO WIN!!

If God told Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann, and Herman Cain to run for president, then God obviously wants Barack Obama to win.

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.

If you only try to do the things where you win, then you'll never try to do anything worth doing.

It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses they put themselves in position to make large gains.

All I expect are wins and to get pleasure from the game. And if someone thinks something about me, if someone's dissatisfied with something... that's not my headache. I hope someday I'll become World Champion - and I'll make all these people happy. But even if for some reason that doesn't happen it won't stop me getting pleasure from chess. I'm sure of that.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Playing chess has many aspects that can be useful in everyday situations like planning, concentration and combinations. You learn to win but also to lose and to be creative.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.

Sometimes you win by losing.

You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

Just know this, if that day does come where I do win this mirrorball, know that I didn't just win it for me, but I won it for all of us with MS.

You can’t win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.

If you win all the time, it's not good for the coaches or the kids.

Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning.

Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.

You don't win by making sensational plays; you win by not making mistakes.

You don't gamble to win. You gamble so you can gamble the next day.