Winning Quotes - Page 9

• You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspiring, Happiness, Success

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• By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Goodbye, Attachment

  "Tao Te Ching". Book by Laozi, Ch. 48, as translated by Raymond B. Blakney (1955), c. 6th - 5th century BC.

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• Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Inspirational, Memorable, Political

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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

  Arnold Palmer

  Inspirational, Sports, Hard Work

  FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

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• Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

  Fred Perry

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Sports

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• Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.

  Arthur Ashe

  Softball, Confidence, Greatest Victory

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• The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

  Pele

  Sports, Inspiration, Athlete

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• You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

  Serena Williams

  Positive, Sports, Believe

  "Serena Williams: How Black Women Can Close the Pay Gap". fortune.com. July 31, 2017.

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• No one ever won a game by resigning.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Inspirational, Sports, Games

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• Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.

  King Hussein I

  Inspirational, Life, Kings

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• When men lose against me, they always have a headache ... or things of that kind. I have never beaten a completely healthy man!

  Susan Polgar

  Funny, Women, Humorous

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• As tennis players, you are never satisfied. We are greedy as players, always want better results.

  Sania Mirza

  Sports, Player, Tennis

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• We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!

  Joyce Meyer

  Inspirational, Moving On, Success

  Twitter post from Sep 22, 2013

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• You can't talk defeat and expect to have victory. You can't talk lack and expect to have abundance. You've got to send your words out in the direction you want your life to go.

  Joel Osteen

  Life, Positive, Positivity

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• I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.

  Abebe Bikila

  Sports, Country, Running

  "50 stunning Olympic moments: Abebe Bikila's 1960 marathon victory - in pictures" by Steven Bloor, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

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• I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.

  Muhammad Ali

  Freedom, Humorous, Equality

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Jul 26, 2012

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• All the best of the monsters played for sympathy. That goes for my father, Karloff, myself and all the others. They all won the audience's sympathy. The Wolf Man didn't want to do all those bad things. He was forced into them.

  Lon Chaney, Jr.

  Sympathy, Father, Character

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• History is written by the victors.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Humorous, History

  Edmund Murray, Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1995). “Proceedings of the International Churchill Societies 1992-1993”, Churchill Center

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• This must be how the guys in Space Jam felt when MJ gave them their powers back through that old basketball.

  Blake Griffin

  Basketball, Sports, Player

  Twitter post from Nov 26, 2011

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• Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.

  F. E. Adcock

  Military, War, Army

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• You're gonna have to go through hell, worse than any nightmare you've ever dreamed. But when it's over, I know you'll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. DO IT!

  Tony Burton

  Motivational, Sports, Dream

  "Rocky's Tony Burton Dead at 78: Sylvester Stallone Remembers His Onscreen Trainer With Sweet Instagram" by Bruna Nessif, www.eonline.com. February 26, 2016.

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• At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.

  Stephen Ambrose

  War, Grateful, Fighting

  "Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany". Book by Stephen Ambrose, www.nytimes.com. 1997.

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• People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough guess, about fifty fistfights in my life. Out of those fifty fistfights, the ones that I had the most vivid memory of were the ones I lost. I think that's one reason why the South remembers the war more than the North does.

  Shelby Foote

  Memories, War, Loss

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

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• Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Oct 23, 2013

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