Winning Quotes present a debate in front of us – whether winning or victory is important always? And if losing is inevitable is it the end of everything?
Wise philosophers and the world leaders have different opinions – as we see both winning and losing both have pros and cons and those vary depending on situations and contexts of the events.
We need to fight first with the internal enemies or the weaknesses of our character and win over them. We have many blemishes in our society because society is nothing but an accumulation of some characters. If characters are far from being noble, we can’t expect a noble society. The following quotes from Mahabharata talks in this line.
“With kindness conquer rage; with goodness malice; with generosity defeat all meanness; with the straight truth defeat lies and deceit.” — Mahabharata
Avoiding a battle sometimes is the greatest winning because this saves so many lives. The next quote is telling this.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
“The best captain does not plunge headlong nor is the best soldier a man hot to fight.
The greatest victor wins without a battle.” — Lao-tse
The following few quotes try to define what winning is.
“Winning is everything, to win is all there is. Only those poor souls buried beneath the battlefield understand this.” – SEAL Team Saying
“Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.” – Zig Ziglar
“Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”
Vince Lombardi
“Winning isn’t everything, but the will to win is everything.” – Vince Lombardi
“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them every day begin the task anew.” – Saint Francis de Sales
“All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means – you’re willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.” – Vince Lombardi
“You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward.That’s how winning is done!”
– Rocky Balboa to his son movie: Rocky Balboa 2006
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“Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.” – Tom Chappel
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.” – Aristotle
Winning is important as it generally introduces the most competent and deserving side. The quotes below the point that a winner must not boast of winning. For some winning is not everything. Some argue and contradict this. The quotes also say that it’s next to impossible to win all the races or battles of life. It also said that the losers of today can be the winners tomorrow. Now let’s get into these quotes.
“Victory belongs to the most persevering.” — Napoleon
“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.” – Andrew Carnegie
“Fortitude is victory.” — Oliver Goldsmith
“Win without boasting.” — Albert Payson Terhune
“Winning isn’t everything.” — Old proverb
“If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?” – Vince Lombardi
“You can’t win them all.” — Old proverb
“You win some and you lose some.” — Kipling
“There are many victories worse than a defeat.”
George Eliot
“They who lose today may win tomorrow.” — Cervantes
“Nobody remembers who came in second.”
– Charles Schulz
“That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.” – Richard David Bach
“They laugh that win.” — “Nothing can seem foul to those that win.” — “’Tis deeds must win the prize.” — Shakespeare
“To win without risk is to triumph without glory.” — Corneille
“Always at it wins the day.” — Old proverb
“If winning isn’t important, why do we spend all that money on scoreboards?”
– Chuck Coonradt
“If winning isn’t important, why keep score?”
– Star Trek: The Next Generation
“The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or to evil.” – Pythagoras
“There are only two places in this league: first place and no place.”-Tom Seaver
“We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.” – Queen Victoria
The successful persons have their own stories to success. And their own formulas as well. Let’s find what these great minds have to say about the keys to winning.
“There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.” – Napoleon Hill
“Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser.”
– Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
“Gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail.” — Aesop
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with
anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“He may well win the race that runs by himself.” — Benjamin Franklin
“It is not enough to aim, you must hit.” — Italian proverb
“Never let defeat have the last word.” – Tibetan Proverb
“Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.” – John Milton
“The victor is one who can go it alone!” – John Godfrey Saxe
“The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.” — Bible, Ecclesiastes 9:11
“It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize. And to be swift is less than to be wise.” — Alexander Pope
“By yielding, you may obtain victory.” — Ovid
“Forewarned, Forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.” — “They got the better of themselves, and that’s the best kind of victory one can wish for.” — Cervantes
“The art of winning in business is in working hard, not taking things too seriously.” – Elbert Hubbard
“You don’t win once in a while; you don’t do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time.” -Vince Lombardi
“There’s nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.”
– Alfred Hitchcock
“You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up – and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.”
– Vince Lombardi
“If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.” – Vince Lombardi
“It’s not whether you get knocked down: it’s whether you get up.”-Vince Lombardi
“I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning.”
– Robert Kennedy
A few more winning quotes for you that will help you to be a winner in your life.
“My serve was there, everything was just clicking. Those are the days you dream about, especially in a final.”
– Pete Sampras
“There are 100 men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.”
– J. Paul Getty
“To win without risk is to triumph without glory.”
– Pierre Corneille
“You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.” -Robert Collier
“There is no relief at it being over. There is the joy of winning it.” – Steffi Graf
“The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn’t cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work.”
– William Feather
Anupam M, an engineering graduate with more than 2 decades of working experience in different technical domains. In his life and career, he has seen many ups and downs and learned some important life lessons. In this process, Anupam gradually realized few secrets of leading a good and balanced life. He strongly believes that health and family are 2 pillars of a successful life.
‘Good health’ to him is not only about physical well beings, rather it does include well beings of our mental state as well. He believes that a balanced mind with a well maintained physical body can help us to go ahead with our head held high in our life.