Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Victor Hansen

If you can come up with a snappy little slogan, then you have a future in winning tagline competitions or being a political speech writer.

Mark Billingham

Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)

Nafisa Joseph

Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.

Nadia Comaneci

I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.

Naguib Mahfouz

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

Miyamoto Musashi

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

Miyamoto Musashi

Determine that today you will overcome your self of the day before, tomorrow you will win over those of lesser skill, and later you will win over those of greater skill.

Mitt Romney

A competitive primary does not divide us, it prepares us and we will win.

Priyanka Chopra

I got into the movies by accident. When I got an offer, I thought, 'Let's try this, too.' Everything in my life has happened by trial and error. I didn't even think I would win the Miss India title, so where's the question of thinking I'd come this far.

Publilius Syrus

What valor cannot win, flattery may.

Prescott Bush

It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.

Juan Williams

The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.

Leonardo da Vinci

To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.

Paul Reiser

Nothing would make me happier if Peter Falk would finally win his Oscar for this. Not just as the writer but as a fan and a friend. It would be so great

Paul Gauguin

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Patrick Marleau

Games in hand are a good thing only if you win them.

Patrick Murray

A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

Patrick McHenry

I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.

Patrick O'Brian

I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for whichever side has paid you, affecting warmth and conviction, and doing everything you can to win the case, whatever your private opinion may be, will soon dull any fine sense of honour. The mercenary soldier is not a valued creature, but at least he risks his life, whereas these men merely risk their next fee.

Patrick Ness

...That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?" ~pg 423

Patrick Ness

Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

Patrice O'Neal

Women don't want to win, they want a winner.

Padraig Harrington

I hadn't won in Europe for two years, although I won twice in America last year, but it's great to come back and win. You never want to go a year without a win. It's very special to win and I'm really happy the way I did it.

Lester Piggott

Everyone keeps asking me: 'Are you going to win?' How on earth do you know if you're going to win or not?

Lev Yilmaz

People always say you can't win if you don't play

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

So much to win, so much to lose, No marvel that I fear to choose.

Leon Spinks

To experience the agony of defeat makes you stronger. It's like taking one step back and two steps forward. To experience the agony of defeat makes you appreciate the experience of winning. That's what makes a champion.

Leon Panetta

The United States has to have the capability to deal with more than one enemy at one time and be able to confront them and win.

Lee Westwood

People confuse being world No. 1 with winning a Major championship.

Lee Westwood

Just because I keep getting close and don't win these Majors, I must not panic.

Lauren Oliver

The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win.

Paul Merson

To win the Champions League with Porto, you have to be tactically acute

Ken Blanchard

Business is like tennis. Those who serve well win.