Top 55 Quotes About Desire To Win
#1. What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.
Patty Berg
#2. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Sure, there's the talent, but there also has to be the will. Give me human will and the intense desire to win and it will trump talent every day of the week.
Larry Ellison
#3. 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 achieve it.
Brian Tracy
#4. I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.
Hale Irwin
#5. Youngsters want to change world. Elders want to enjoy their works.
The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires.
Toba Beta
#6. The goal of life is not to win. It is to play the game with love. The rules of the game are: have a strong desire to win, believe that you are worthy of winning, have faith that you will win, and, as long as you are alive, never believe that the game is over.
Iyanla Vanzant
#7. All I can say is that I have arrived with the desire to be a success at Barca, that I am hungry to win titles.
Luis Suarez
#8. I had a burning desire in me to win and started to get him on the back foot. I was looking for that one special shot when I put him down with the famous Horsley Muckspreader right hand ... an unstoppable force. Incredibly, he got up and took the count and the ref waved us to continue.
Stephen Richards
#9. Don't be discouraged at seemingly overwhelming odds in your desire to live and to help others live God's commandments. At times it may seem like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember, David did win.
David B. Haight
#10. The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.
Margaret Thatcher
#11. The fact of the matter is that people who have a strong desire to win, to be the best at what they do, are more likely to reach their full potential than someone who says, "I don't care if I win or lose, I just want to get better.
Stan Beecham
#12. My will to live completely overcame my desire to win
Alfred Hajos
#13. There is one quality which 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
#14. There were times when deep down inside I wanted to win so badly I could actually will it to happen. I think most of my career has been based on desire.
Chris Evert
#15. The desire to win a war is expensive, but the desire to win with wisdom is wise.
Debasish Mridha
#16. Anytime you have doubts about what you're doing, go outside and run. Run until you can't run anymore. Run until you feel that fierce desire to win being born within you. You
Joel Dicker
#17. The constant desire to win is a very American kind of trouble. Less glamorous gains made along the way--learning, wisdom, growth, and confidence, dealing with failure--aren't given the same respect because they can't be given a grade.
William Zinsser
#18. The central fire is desire, and all the powers of our being are given us to see, to fight for, and to win the object of our desire. Quench that fire and man turns to ashes.
Basil W. Maturin
#19. To win,you must have both talent an desire- but desire first.
Sam Snead
#20. I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.
Serena Williams
#21. We are the farmers of the future. If we desire all the gifts of God, if we seek to win the Golden Crown, we can't just sit back and watch. We have to make it happen.
Chris Heimerdinger
#22. In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.
Paulo Coelho
#23. I don't pretend there aren't biological differences, but I don't believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it's socialization, that we're socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead.
Sheryl Sandberg
#24. For me, it's about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.
Billy Connolly
#25. We must plant the seed of desire, water it with sincere faith. If you think you are beaten you are. If you dare not, you don't. If you want to win, but think you can't, it is almost sure you won't." 14
Pamela Grundy
#26. If you can concentrate on what you're doing and have the desire to do the things you have to do to win, you'll succeed.
Arnold Palmer
#27. All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.
Spiro T. Agnew
#28. Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Denis Waitley
#29. 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
#30. When mankind wins, truly wins, we become better - not more primitive. Your desire to win will spark a change in you. And if you kindle that spark into a flame, and then a fire, why, you'll spark others around you.
M.E. Wynne
#31. Desire is the catalyst that enables a person with average ability to compete and win against others with more natural talent.
Zig Ziglar
#32. How could I put across to him how it was with me? How much I was driven timorously by a desire to please and yet found myself stubbornly unable to do so by obedience to any values but my own? Since my values were not shared by those around me, I couldn't possibly win.
Barbara Trapido
#33. So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious. Those who discern when to use many or few troops are victorious. Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.
Sun Tzu
#34. It is hard to dispute the evidence that we are a race defined to a significant degree by our pettiness, by how vicious our desire is to keep track, to compare, to win.
Christine Sneed
#35. Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel, or, to put it in more basic terms, there's little point in sigilizing for a lottery win if you don't also buy a lottery ticket.
Grant Morrison
#36. My primary objective, my desire would be to see the Democrat Party get shellacked in every election, to never see the Democrats ever win one again, as currently constituted.
Rush Limbaugh
#37. An aspirational diet will have you dreaming of success; but it's the attachment of expectations and tangible goals that feeds the desire, persistence, and fortitude required to make the win.
Lorii Myers
#38. I do not want players who do not have a keen desire to win and do not play hard and aggressively to accomplish that objective.
John Wooden
#39. Here was Nietzsche's will to power at work, the pure physical instinct brought on by the desire to survive, to win, to prove myself better, to test myself and not be found wanting.
Peter Gregoire
#40. I've never really understood the desire people have to quantify a baby. "He's X big and Y long," As if the baby is a fish you're not sure you're going to keep. Or some prize potato you're hoping will win a prize at the county fair.
Patrick Rothfuss
#41. His motto of "try, take, and top" had changed. Oh, he'd tried Tate all right, and they'd both done a helluva lot of taking, but for once in his life, Logan didn't feel the desire to win. He didn't need to come out on top. What he wanted was Tate's trust - his absolute trust.
Ella Frank
#42. You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.
Bear Bryant
#43. You are in the grip of a desire for martyrdom and self-sacrifice; conquer this desire as well, set aside your pages and your intention
and then you will overcome everything. You will put to shame all your pride and your demon! You will win, you will attain freedom ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#44. drive to win and the desire to make a profit are given by God to provide the incentive required for conquering exceptional challenges.
Ed Silvoso
#45. I do feel that I have unfinished business in the Premier League and now is the right time to return. I considered all the other offers very carefully and I firmly believe that Chelsea is the best choice. They match my footballing ambitions with their hunger and desire to win trophies.
Cesc Fabregas
#46. The two desires struggle within me: the desire to be safe, and the desire to know. I cannot tell which one will win.
Ally Condie
#47. She didn't smile back. Not even a little. I totally needed to read that book on how to win friends and influence people. But that would involve an innate desire to win friends and influence people.
Darynda Jones
#48. The Christian's whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when we want to win glory for ourselves instead of for him.
D. A. Carson
#49. Every day the word 'gift' is used to define talent, ability, and performance. Being gifted has an even deeper meaning, a meaning that isn't always measured in points per game or win/loss records - it's measured by heart, effort, and desire.
Alan Cohen
#50. All this while I kept thinking where did I go wrong, all this while he wasn't mine to lose.
Pushpa Rana
#51. The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.
Nigel Mansell
#52. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential ... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius
#53. My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.
Lance Armstrong
#54. To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.
Simon Sinek
#55. Understanding the eternal formula," Anna replied, "is the clue to win any game, and if you desire power you'll get it.
J.M.K. Walkow
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