Top 100 Must Win Quotes
#2. Our country since its inception has been at war, every 15 or 20 years. But the war that we are fighting against radical Islamist jihadists is one that we must win. Our very existence is dependent upon that.
Benjamin Carson
#3. As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run ... What an interest it imparts to life!.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#4. I always say to my guys, 'The most important day of your life is today. This very minute is the most important of you life. You must win this minute. You must win this day. And tomorrow will take care of itself.
John Chaney
#5. For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.
Frederick William Faber
#6. Get some sleep, pup,' the Chihuahua told him. 'After your first match, you already grabbed the attention of the fans. Tomorrow you must win their hearts.
Devon Hughes
#7. At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.
Thomas Hughes
#8. Boxing is entertainment, so to be successful a fighter must not only win but he must win in an exciting manner. He must throw punches with bad intentions.
Cus D'Amato
#9. My heart is in this work, for it is not a question of 'Will we win' or 'Will we lose.' We must win, and that is all there is to it.
William Kalush
#10. We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
Edward Gibbon
#11. Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win. Even the nailed god cannot change that truth. And I was a warrior, and in a world at war the warrior must be cruel.
Bernard Cornwell
#12. Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
Tom Peters
#13. It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free. -Robert F. Kennedy
Naomi Wolf
#15. If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.
Wendell Berry
#16. The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win.
Warren Buffett
#17. I would say we must win the information war against ISIS. Every war we have ever been involved in has had a propaganda informational aspect to it.
Marco Rubio
#19. Though when she thought of it after, it was rather unprofessional behaviour, but sometimes when people are involved, business has to stop being business and the human must win. However, Kitty couldn't ignore the underlying truth that they both hung on to that hug for a little too long.
Cecelia Ahern
#20. To be the England manager you must win every game, not do anything in your private life and hopefully not earn too much money!
Sven-Goran Eriksson
#21. The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
Vince Lombardi
#22. [T]he important thing was that each Saturday they must win games and put The Academy on the sporting pages. For that, after all, was the final index to the rating of an American school.
John Horne Burns
#23. In a negotiation, we must find a solution that pleases everyone, because no one accepts that they must lose and that the other must win ... Both must win!
Nabil N. Jamal
#24. We must win when we deserve it, by elevating reason and the dignity of the individual, loving justice and the good and the great, even dying for it.
Jose Rizal
#25. It's only a must-win game if you need to win it
Roy Aitken
#26. I know nothing of this silence except that it lies outside the reach of my intelligence, beyond words - that is why this silence must win, must inevitably defeat me, because it is not a presence at all.
Amitav Ghosh
#27. Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have ... other options.
Julius Caesar
#28. We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.
Doc Hastings
#29. We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise
Jack Kemp
#30. Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world. Let us not tire of preaching love. Though we see that waves of violence succeed in drowning the fire of Christian love, love must win out; it is the only thing that can.
Oscar Romero
#31. I'd like to think I did well. I'd like to think that, if I had a must-win game, the guys I played with would want me to have the ball. But no, I don't think I deserve to be in the Hall of Fame.
Curt Schilling
#33. Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.
Dan Farmer
#34. We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.
Adam Weishaupt
#35. TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.
Tom Shadyac
#36. Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations which religion has produced somehow by default must win the argument is really quite ridiculous.
Richard Dawkins
#37. We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.
Edward Gibbon
#38. A worker must win the hearts and affections of the people before he can do any effective work.
Dwight L. Moody
#39. Love is the only game where both participants must win in order to achieve true victory.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#40. Upsetting the dope is a favorite pastime in baseball. Past performances count for but little in the national pastime. Reputations don't get you anywhere. A club is judged solely on results, and to get results, you must win ball games.
Billy Evans
#42. If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world.
Theodore Roosevelt
#43. You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.
Merle Shain
#44. The war we must must win is fought within.
Tom Payne
#45. Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor.
Homer
#46. Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer.
Garry Kasparov
#47. This is not a must-win; World War II was a must-win (Referring to the Super Bowl)
Marv Levy
#48. And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the world know that we are here and willing to pour out our blood, our treasure, our tears. And that America is ready and if need be desirous of battle
Theodore Roosevelt
#50. We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home.
John McCain
#52. Evolution is the most important battle that Christians have to fight today, a battle we must win by any means, fair or foul!
Hank Hanegraaff
#53. Every time I left for the battlefield I promised this to myself; I must live to see you again. In order to protect you, I promised myself that I must win.
Gwanghaegun Of Joseon
#54. Knave of hearts and bane to all women, be it known that you must win your tournament for me, otherwise I shall have a most difficult time explaining to my new lord my newest addition.
-A letter to Stryder, from Rowena
Kinley MacGregor
#55. We must win rulers; political, economic, scientific, artistic personalities. They are the engineers of souls. They mold the souls of men. Winning them, you win the people they lead and influence.
Richard Wurmbrand
#56. Sometimes when people are involved, business has to stop being business and the human must win.
Cecelia Ahern
#57. The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.
Joey Adams
#58. Every day you amass knowledge in a frantic race against death that death must win. You want to find out everything in the time you have; yet in the end you wonder why you bothered, it'll all be lost. I keep trying to explain this to anyone who will listen.
Derek Raymond
#59. If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.
Starhawk
#60. Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumours so little founded on truth
James De La Vega
#61. Loyalty must be forged - to him, to his: stronger than iron, from experience, from risk - it can't be bought, or taught, or promised before the fact. Allegiance must be earned so it will hold, win or lose.
Janet Morris
#62. I do not spoil women ... I don't send them flowers and gifts ... I'm saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman's synthetic affections.
George Sanders
#63. In a scene [where the improvisers must interact] without the letter S, the audience is waiting for you to lose - so they can laugh at you. Don't try to win.
Keith Johnstone
#64. To win a woman in the first place you must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her, finally, so that she will let you leave her, you've got to antagonise her.
Jean Giraudoux
#65. Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.
Jesse Ventura
#66. If ever we are to study the Scriptures, if ever we are to spend time in prayer, if ever we are to win souls for Christ, if ever we are to invest our finances for His kingdom - it must be now.
Billy Graham
#67. Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to lose everything.
Larry Csonka
#68. Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!
Bruce Lee
#70. Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.
Vicente Del Bosque
#72. There is no war so important that to win it, we must destroy our minds.
Greg Bear
#73. You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion.
Sylvia Plath
#74. We must also win really sufficient and, above all, practical, guarantees for the freedom of the seas and for the further fulfilment of our economic and political tasks throughout the world.
Bernhard Von Bulow
#75. Pain is not a medallion that you must weigh your bosom with,
it's a force you must fight against and never, never let it win
Jyoti Arora
#76. the words are only part of the poetic
formula: the rest is ritual, and the
reason in THEM must contend with the
mechanics of magic-making in IT -- and
must not win.
Laura Riding Jackson
#77. To win once you must have talent, but to win again you must have character.
John Wooden
#78. There are times for all of us when all the laughter seems to be gone, but we should not permit these periods to last too long. When we've lost our sense of humor, there isn't very much left. We become ridiculous. We must then go to war against the whole world, and that's a war we cannot win.
Earl Nightingale
#79. In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.
Bobby Jones
#80. The more obstacles you encounter, the harder you must fight to meet your destiny. Never let adversity win. Never give up on yourself and the good you can bring to the world.
Ingrid Weir
#81. When fate and love come into conflict, the former must always win; for love will fade if it rests upon indignity or abdication.
Jorge G. Castaneda
#82. We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.
Martin O'Malley
#84. The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Theodore Roosevelt
#85. He deserves ten out of ten for doing what he does. He is a sensation, but still he can improve. He must know when to move the ball on quickly and when to try the impossible mission. When he learns this, he won't win a single Golden Ball, but an entire collection.
Johan Cruijff
#86. You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
Zig Ziglar
#88. Last century we needed lawyers; this century we need big, broad coalitions. When extremists decide to attack all our communities, they must hope that there will be infighting. But we have stood all for one and one for all. That is how we will win.
Benjamin Todd Jealous
#89. It was an amazing win and testament to the character of the team. From the position we were in it must be one of the greatest comebacks.
Adam Gilchrist
#90. The young don't know that experience is a defeat and that we must lose everything in order to win a little knowledge.
Albert Camus
#91. Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
Napoleon Hill
#92. You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure.
Orison Swett Marden
#93. If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It's a god we must obey, a force that brings us all inevitably to our knees.
Cheryl Strayed
#94. Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a positive thing to tell children, but ultimately, what that means is when they lose, it must make them a loser.
Joshua Waitzkin
#95. Winners expect to win before the contest starts; losers don't. Any individual becomes what he or she thinks about most. If you want to be a champion, then that thought must dominate your life. But most important, winners dwell on the rewards of winning; losers dwell on the penalties of failure.
Wade Schalles
#96. We must train our 'future candidates' on not only how to win elections but how to govern well.
Fela Durotoye
#97. There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case.
Maynard Webb
#98. I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack of rheumatism. In the fourth game, I wasn't feeling well. And in the fifth game? Well, must one have to win every game?
Siegbert Tarrasch
#99. 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
#100. To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead
Miyamoto Musashi
