Can't Win Quotes - Page 2

• You can't win unless you first begin. So start now

  Robin Sharma

  Winning, Firsts, Can't Win

  Twitter post from Jan 06, 2017

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• Without the ball, you can't win.

  Johan Cruijff

  Winning, Balls, Can't Win

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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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• On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win.

  Margaret Drabble

  Mother, Winning, Can't Win

  Margaret Drabble (2013). “The Middle Ground”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To be completely honest, I didn't want to compete with myself. I wanted to reinvent myself. This seemed like the perfect way to step back in without competing with what I've already done, because I can't win that battle.

  Marta Kauffman

  Winning, Perfect, Battle

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• Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. Fame! You'll be as famous as famous can be, with the whole wide world watching you win on TV. Except when they don't Because, sometimes they won't. I'm afraid that some times you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

  Dr. Seuss

  Lonely, Fun, Winning

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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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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• You can't win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60's person or you've sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60's are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Winning, Issues, People

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• I have two basic rules about winning in trading as well as in life: 1. If you don't bet, you can't win. 2. If you lose all your chips, you can't bet.

  Larry Hite

  Winning, Two, Chips

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• When they can't win a debate (can they ever?), leftists deploy what the late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called the argument from intimidation. Instead of trying to refute the other side, they label their opponents' position evil, attribute sinister motives to its adherents, and charge that its proponents are encouraging violence.

  Don Feder

  Winning, Evil, Trying

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• My closest friends from Israel make fun of me for becoming an American, and my American friends make fun of how Israeli I am... I can't win.

  Alona Tal

  Fun, Winning, Israel

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can't win on innovation unless you have a way to communicate it to customers.

  Steve Jobs

  Winning, Innovation, Way

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• You can't win every week.

  Caryl Churchill

  Winning, Week, Can't Win

  Caryl Churchill (2008). “Plays Four”, Nick Hern Books

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• In a democracy, hostage tactics are the last resort for those who can’t otherwise win their fights through elections, can’t win their fights in Congress, can’t win their fights for the Presidency, and can’t win their fights in Courts. For this right-wing minority, hostage-taking is all they have left – a last gasp of those who cannot cope with the realities of our democracy.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Fighting, Winning, Reality

  "Elizabeth Warren: ‘Hostage Taking’ Is All Republicans Have Left" by Paige Lavender, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 1, 2013.

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• The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't win. Prison is lack of alternatives, and the telescopic predictability of the future is what drives you crazy.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Crazy, Winning, Space

  "Less Than One: Selected Essays". p. 28. Book by Joseph Brodsky, 1986.

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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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• 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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• You can't win integrity and honor from games. You can only earn them from living a life dedicated to those ideals.

  P. C. Cast

  Integrity, Winning, Games

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2011). “Dragon's Oath”, p.77, Macmillan

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• You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you're criticised for wanting power. That's the Labour party's line of attack, and it's a bit ridiculous.

  Vince Cable

  Party, Winning, Government

  "Vince Cable: 'What we're managing is quite a difficult situation'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2010.

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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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• When you win, you want more of it. You can't win enough.

  Randy Johnson

  Winning, Want, Enough

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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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• 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 Can't win the World Cup alone

  AB de Villiers

  Winning, World, Cups

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