Can't Win Quotes

• If you can accept losing, you can't win.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Football, Winning

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• If you can't win, make the one ahead of you break the record.

  John McKeithen

  Sports, Running, Winning

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• You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Winning, Play

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• In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

  George Orwell

  Failure, Winning, Games

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save face? He didn't ask for your opinion. He didn't want it. Why argue with him? You can't win an argument, because if you lose, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it. Why? You will feel fine. But what about him? You have made him feel inferior, you hurt his pride, insult his intelligence, his judgment, and his self-respect, and he'll resent your triumph. That will make him strike back, but it will never make him want to change his mind. A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.

  Dale Carnegie

  Change, Hurt, Pride

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• Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.

  James C. Collins

  Teacher, Winning, Games

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• Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Winning, Men, Scared

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• I know how to win. You can't win unless you have a great temperament.

  Donald Trump

  Winning, Can't Win, Temperament

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I know there are certain things that I just can't win.

  DJ Khaled

  Winning, Certain, Can't Win

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• Even when there are no results. Things you can and can't do. Things you can and can't win. Even if there's none of that, I'll still try my hardest.

  Yunho

  Winning, Trying, Results

  Source: lovetohateme.wordpress.com

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• Conflicts, even of long standing duration, can be resolved if we can just keep the flow of communication going in which people come out of their heads and stop criticizing and analyzing each other, and instead get in touch with their needs, and hear the needs of others, and realize the interdependence that we all have in relation to each other. We can't win at somebody else's expense. We can only fully be satisfied when the other person's needs are fulfilled as well as our own.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Winning, Long

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• The left can't win elections without lying and without camouflage and without masks hiding who they really are. So to get their way, they have to bully.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Lying, Winning, Bully

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I hate games I can't win.

  Simone Elkeles

  Hate, Winning, Games

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

  Lawrence Lessig

  War, Winning, Age

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• You can't win without the ball.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Winning, Balls

  "Auerbach: Jackson is 'a great coach'". Interview with ESPN.com, www.espn.com. June 21, 2005.

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• When it comes to money, you can't win. If you focus on making it, you're materialistic. If you try to but don't make any, you're a loser. If you make a lot and keep it, you're a miser. If you make it and spend it, you're a spendthrift. If you don't care about making it, you're unambitious. If you make a lot and still have it when you die, you're a fool-for trying to take it with you. The only way to really win with money is to hold it loosely-and be generous with it to accomplish things of value.

  John C. Maxwell

  Money, Winning, Focus

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “Motivated to Succeed”, p.69, Grupo Nelson

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• Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.

  Lionel Messi

  Winning, Sometimes, Accepting

  "Spainful experience: Lionel Messi admits Bayern hammering of Barcelona was 'low point in my career'" by Paul Smith, www.mirror.co.uk. April 27, 2013.

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• Zeroth law: You must play the game
  First law: You can't win
  Second law: You can't break even
  Third law: You can't quit the game.

  C.P. Snow

  Winning, Law, Games

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• We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.

  Lou Brock

  Sports, Cheating, Moving

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• The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.

  Jimmy Doolittle

  War, Winning, Air

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• We can't win at somebody else's expense. We can only fully be satisfied when the other person's needs are fulfilled as well as our own.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Winning, Needs

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• You can't win everybody to the Lord, but you can always win somebody.

  John R. Rice

  Winning, Lord, Can't Win

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• I focused on the passing houses filled with couples who’d somehow survived this teenage craziness of ‘he likes her but she likes him and he likes somebody else, you just can’t win.’ How did they do it? How did they end up in their golden, warm and cozy living rooms with their 2.3 children and dogs and cats? Because getting from where I was to where they were seemed millions of light years away.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Dog, Teenage, Children

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• I train for two reasons. Number one, I love working out, and number two, I want to win. You can't win if you don't train to the best of your ability.

  Branch Warren

  Bodybuilding, Winning, Two

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• Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt and enmeshed in evil that there is no possibility of salvation from within.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Philosophy, Winning, Views

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