Can't Win Quotes - Page 4

• There are things money can't buy and hard work can't win. One of them is happiness.

  Ray Kroc

  Hard Work, Winning, Can't Win

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.103, St. Martin's Griffin

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• When bands come from that underground scene and go into the mainstream, people just hate it. And it blows my mind. If you're saying you don't like what pop culture is, then change it. And when someone does make an effort to change it, everyone rebels against it and hates it. You can't win. People just want that division to exist. They don't want that division to go away.

  Laura Jane Grace

  Hate, Blow, Winning

  "Tom Gabel of Against Me!". Interview with Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. July 24, 2007.

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• A serious pacifist approach can't win wars against enemies whose only program is violence. That doesn't mean I think the US has fought terrorists so wisely most of the time since 9/11. But there are some enemies that need to be destroyed by force lest they destroy much much more.

  Philip Gourevitch

  War, Mean, Winning

  "Ask the Author Live: Philip Gourevitch on Osama Bin Laden". The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. May 4, 2011.

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• There's a lathered sorrel stallion running through the Joshua trees and a young man in the saddle with his coat tails in the breeze. He's got a six gun on his right hip and a rifle at his knees and he's dealing in a game that he can't win.

  Charlie Daniels

  Running, Men, Gun

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• In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Real, Winning, Ideas

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.20, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Pain, Winning

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• If you can't win your race, make sure the guy ahead of you breaks the record.

  Unknown

  Winning, Race, Guy

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• Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

  Patricia Ireland

  Winning, Principles, Campaigns

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• We can't win friends with a scowling face and an upbraiding voice.

  Dale Carnegie

  Winning, Voice, Faces

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• Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Heart, Winning, Path

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• You're either too fat or too thin. You just can't win.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Winning, Fats, Can't Win

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

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• You can't win enough, you can't have enough money, you can't succeed enough. There is not enough. The only thing that will ever satiate that existential thirst is love. And I just remember that day I made the shift from wanting to be a winner to wanting to have the most powerful, deep, and beautiful relationships I could possibly have.

  Will Smith

  Beautiful, Powerful, Winning

  "Will Smith on Kids, His Career, Ferguson, and Failure". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. February 12, 2015.

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• You can't win enough, you can't have enough money, you can't succeed enough. There is not enough.

  Will Smith

  Winning, Succeed, Enough

  "Will Smith on Kids, His Career, Ferguson, and Failure". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. February 12, 2015.

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• You can't win by being more average than average.

  Seth Godin

  Winning, Average, Can't Win

  Interview with Tamara Adlin, adlininc.com. August 27, 2007.

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• Some people have questioned whether or not I can play a nice guy. Sometimes you can't win for losing.

  Michael Chiklis

  Nice, Winning, Play

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

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• You can't win. The annoying thing is that you can't attack them, but you can't defend yourself. The best thing you could possibly do is punch a paparazzi and give them their big payday.

  Robert Pattinson

  Winning, Giving, Annoying

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• You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference.

  Lou Holtz

  Athlete, Winning, Differences

  Lou Holtz (1990). “The Fighting Spirit: A Championship Season at Notre Dame”

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• At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.

  John Carmack

  Winning, Games, Subjectivity

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• A study of interactions between women and obstetricians offers an explanation. It described three levels of increasing power imbalance: In the first, you fight and lose; in the second you don't fight because you know you can't win. However, in the highest level of power differential, your preferences are so manipulated that you act against your own interests, but you are content. Elective [meaning requested for no medical reason, not to be confused with needed surgery planned in advance] repeat cesarean exemplifies that highest level.

  Henci Goer

  Confused, Fighting, Winning

  Henci Goer (1999). “The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth”, p.163, Penguin

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• It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Fighting, Winning, Games

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• Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without going on TV, but you can win a local election simply by organizing your community. NationBuilder levels the playing field.

  Joe Greene

  Winning, Presidential, Community

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• All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.

  Tammy Baldwin

  Winning, Naysayers, Progressive

  "Tammy Baldwin Announces Senate Run In Wisconsin" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.

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• We can't win a war, but we can win an election.

  Nelson Mandela

  War, Winning, Election

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• We have a choice: to spend a lot of time fighting for what we know is right, or to just accept what we know is wrong. We must stand up for our rights and for the rights of others, even if most people say we can't win.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Responsibility, Fighting, Winning

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• Have you ever sabotaged yourself? Ever come close to victory only to slide back into the jaws of defeat? When you are fighting yourself, you can't win.

  Robert G. Allen

  Fighting, Winning, Victory

  Robert G. Allen (2004). “Nothing Down for the 2000s: Dynamic New Wealth Strategies in Real Estate”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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