Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muhammad Ali

Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.

Mark Webber

Winning in Monaco is always special. That track has always been good to me. I won there in Formula 3000, battled for the victory with Williams in 2006 and now I've won two of the last three grands prix there.

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)

Jack Osbourne

Just know this, if that day does come where I do win this mirrorball, know that I didn't just win it for me, but I won it for all of us with MS.

Gloria Steinem

the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.

Gloria Steinem

Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.

Giorgio Napolitano

It takes a lot of effort to win back credibility after having lost it so heavily.

Harry S Truman

If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.

Harry S Truman

If I want to be great, I have to win the victory over myself...self-d iscipline.

J. Paul Getty

Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there.

J. K. Rowling

In the end, love wins. It does win. We know it wins. When a person dies, love isn’t turned off like a faucet. It is an amazingly resilient part of us.

J. K. Rowling

Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She – er, got a bit shirty with me. Told me I'd got my priorities wrong. Seemed to think I cared more about winning the Cup than I do about staying alive. Just because I told her I didn't care if it threw you off, as long as you caught the Snitch first.

Ivan Lendl

Not winning at Wimbledon is not going to bother me forever.

Ivan Lendl

Once you win, you have no doubt that you can win. So you have gone through it once, and you can do it again.

H. L. Mencken

All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.

H. L. Mencken

It seems to me that society usually wins. There are, to be sure, free spirits in the world, but their freedom, in the last analysis, is not much greater than that of a canary in a cage. They may leap from perch to perch; they may bathe and guzzle at their will; they may flap their wings and sing. But they are still in the cage, and soon or late it conquers them.

Guillermo del Toro

When I see a short schedule, my question to the director is, are you really comfortable with this, or are you doing it to be a good boy? At the end, you only win the medal if the film is good, you don't win a medal if the movie is on time.

Greg LeMond

I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.

Greg LeMond

When you get second place, you say 'I could have won it here, I could have won it there.' When you win, you never say anything; it's finished.

Gilbert Parker

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.

Paul Newman

Winning isn't everything.... it's just all there is.

Paul Begala

I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose.

Paul Begala

Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it.

Mary J. Blige

It's up to us to choose whether we win or lose...and I choose to win.

Mary J. Blige

I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.

Mark Gorman

Marriage isn't about winning. It's about lasting.

Mark Hamill

I always think a day when you never get out of your pajamas is a win.

Oswald Chambers

The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.

Paul Scholes

Winning the Ballon d’Or never bothered me. I just wanted to play for Manchester United.

Paul Ryan

Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program, and raiding it. Ladies and gentlemen, our nation needs this debate. We want this debate. We will win this debate.