Top 100 Winning Life Quotes
#1. Grandiosity is when we are wrapped up in winning life's false contest. This happens only when we live to impress the abusive parents in our heads, not when we are soberly and philosophically working to advance civilization.
Steven Franssen
#2. You are born to win. But to become that true winner, you must make living a winning life your priority.
Jones Kofi Apawu
#3. Success is the accomplishment of any number of possible aims, dreams, aspirations or goals. It's very personal and unique to you. Your greatest desire could be someone else's idea of hell; you might want to be an award-winning chef while your best friend hates cooking.
Nigel Cumberland
#4. I was a waiter before 'The Office,' so to me, this was a winning lottery ticket. Everything about my life has changed.
John Krasinski
#5. 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
#6. You have to keep your goal in mind and never lose sight of it. I envisioned myself winning the heavyweight title for ten years before I actually captured it. If you're not driven to do your best, you'll never reach the level of excellence in your life.
George Foreman
#7. I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests in me, Drawn upward by the choice that makes him free, Leave him in tragic loneliness to choose, With all in life to win or all to lose.
Edwin Markham
#8. There is nothing in this life that can destroy you but yourself. Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can't just fall apart and die. You have to fight back. If you don't, you're the one who loses in the end. But if you do keep going and fight back, you win.
Alexandra Monir
#9. Robin turned and looked straight into her. "What's life for?"
"I don't know."
"I don't either. But I don't think it's about winning.
Jonathan Franzen
#10. The darker the night, the nearer the dawn. Victory in life is decided by that last concentrated burst of energy filled with the resolve to win.
Daisaku Ikeda
#11. Life is just one big fight, and giving up puts us nowhere near of winning that fight
Christy Salomein
#12. "If you die, you get to heaven; and if you win, you enjoy the earth" (Gita). Even if you die in this attempt, well and good, many will take up the work, following your example. And if you succeed, you will live a life of great opulence.
Swami Vivekananda
#13. Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone's life in a very positive way are better.
Tim Howard
#14. No matter how skillfully a man play the game of life, there is but one test of his ability
did he win?
Charles Lever
#15. I'm ready to lose my life if that's what Portugal needs to win. I'll play vs USA even if I play with one leg.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#16. Winning has a value for ego, but participation has a value for life.
Debasish Mridha
#17. Everyone in my life thinks I'm competitive because I want to win, but it comes from me wanting everyone to have a good time. And when I see that people aren't enthused, I try to make it really uncomfortable for everyone so they get enthused and want to play hard.
Christina Applegate
#19. Its that tricky thing called hope and that contagious thing called faith, that draws this very fine line between winning and losing.
Deepak Vidyarthi
#20. So every time you think about your work-life balance issue, remember what your boss is thinking about - and that's winning. Your needs may get heard - and even successfully resolved - but not if the boss's needs aren't met as well.
Jack Welch
#21. If I had won ... all those other championships, my life might be totally different, but I didn't win. It's not going to affect my life.
Greg Norman
#22. The foolishness of faith is the winning ticket in life
David Oyedepo
#23. Sadly, like many times in life, including winning the lottery, we don't always get what we wish for.
Adele Rose
#24. Not much in the world ends up being the same as it started out,
unless of course it had a very short life cycle.
Lorii Myers
#25. I've never written a book with the intention of winning someone back or getting back at someone or anything like that. It's always just been about thinking about life and how relationships fit in to what life means.
Jeffrey Brown
#26. Not to decide is to decide. Letting something go until it 'decides itself' is Life by Default. You don't want to live that way. So choose. Choose right now. Stop worrying about what you can 'lose' or how you can 'win' and just follow your joy. Where does your joy say you should go?
Neale Donald Walsch
#27. I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.
Dr. Seuss
#29. Life isn't fair," comes the voice of Nana. She has told me that a thousand times. "What matters is how you handle it." I'm going to handle it by winning.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#30. And some win peace who spend
The skill of words to sweeten despair
Of finding consolation where
Life has but one dark end.
Walter De La Mare
#31. Winning the IBF title was the greatest night of my life. To give it up outside the ring is truly painful.
Ricky Hatton
#33. Two weeks ago, I was in a fantastic situation, winning at Roland Garros. Now, losing in the first round, it's tough. The tour continues. Life continues. This is a sport of victories, not a sport of losses. Nobody remembers the losses. I don't want to remember the loss.
Rafael Nadal
#35. A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.
Lois Wyse
#36. In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning ... In life the loser's score is always zero.
W. H. Auden
#37. Training was all I could think about. One Sunday when I found the stadium locked, I broke in and worked out in the freezing cold. Every painful set, every extra rep, was a step toward my goal of winning.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#38. Tennis has never been the most important thing in my life. My family, my health, my happiness ... they are more important to me. On court, I want to win. Off court, I want to be a better person. Tennis is a path to my future.
Maria Sharapova
#39. The REAL American Dream is not about a garage full of new cars, winning the lottery, or retiring to a life of ease in Florida. It's about doing work that has meaning, work that makes a difference, and doing that work with people you care about.
Joe Tye
#40. I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that.
Mike Ditka
#41. Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.
Bill Gates
#42. I win not because of my own efforts or my own goodness, but rather through the grace, love, and mercy of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He died so that I might win this game of life and live with Him forever.
Zig Ziglar
#43. I've been away from my two daughters at a very important time in their life.'I have missed most of Girl Scout cookie season.Last night Zahra, my youngest called me up and said :"Daddy how come we never sell the most cookies? How come Mrs. Dunn wins every year?"'
Chris Rock
#44. Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.
Jostein Gaarder
#45. Writing books and being paid for it - it's not like winning the Lottery. You can't suddenly go, 'Yippee!' and start throwing tenners in the air. I've done pretty well out of it, but certainly not enough to say, 'Right, that's me set up for life.'
Joanne Harris
#46. When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win.
Spartacus
#47. The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Pythagoras
#48. There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means, competing and winning in the world of enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#49. Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. The goal is not to win every game but to win more than you lose, and if you do that often enough, in the end you may find you have won it all.
Harold S. Kushner
#50. You never know who you will meet along life's journey. You have to be open to risks, but calculated risks, open to winning.
Paula Deen
#51. It was a star," Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won, oh, yes, my children, it won. But it lost its life in the winning.
Madeleine L'Engle
#52. You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
John C. Maxwell
#53. Every job I was denied for ... opened the door to new opportunities. Every relationship that hurt me ... led me to my true love. Every mistake I thought would be the end of me ... pointed me towards an incredible success. Sometimes when you think you're losing, you're winning.
Steve Maraboli
#54. I went my whole life without winning anything and now all of a sudden after years of hard work my dreams were coming true all at once and I didn't know how to deal with it. It felt like the world was changing its relationship with me but I had stayed the same.
Adi Shankar
#55. Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.
Brian Tracy
#56. Life, like war, is a series of mistakes,he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes: organize victory out of mistakes.
Frederick William Robertson
#57. I just play to win. I play to be competitive; that's it. I think every player hopes that they do something special that everyone remembers later in life, or whatever. But that's not why we're playing. At least, that's not why I play.
Cliff Lee
#58. Essentially, I am a dreamer. I've dreamed all my life. When I started, I dreamed I'd be Champion because it is a sport that is all about the people who win the most, and I have a fear of not winning.
Tony McCoy
#59. He was another person, despite his firm decision and anguished effort to continue to be the same man he had been before his mortal encounter with love.
The truth is that he was never the same again. Winning back Fermina Daza was the sole purpose of his life
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#61. My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that's important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.
Pat Summitt
#62. My name is not only Archie Griffin, it's two-time Heisman trophy winner Archie Griffin. Once you win the award it's with you for the rest of your life, and I realize that and I'm proud of that. It changed my life.
Archie Griffin
#64. 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
#65. We should think of those who were famous for their good deeds or their bad deeds; did their fame raise them one single degree in the sight of Allah. Did it win them a reward that they had not already won by their actions during their life?
Ibn Hazm
#66. You can't overestimate the importance of psychology in chess, and as much as some players try to downplay it, I believe that winning requires a constant and strong psychology not just at the board but in every aspect of your life.
Garry Kasparov
#67. No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#68. You need to feel good about your life. Winning is a great idea, but you can get stuck in it too. It's just another way of looking at life, an idea. You need to renew yourself and your spirit.
Frederick Lenz
#69. There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death. If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I'm not that way, and it keeps me steady.
Tom Landry
#70. When he wins the battle, the Warrior celebrates.
Paulo Coelho
#71. My only focus was the Olympics because in my sport, that is the ultimate. Everything is geared toward that, and my entire life was geared around getting there and winning gold.
Cammi Granato
#72. We are not going to succeed in everything we attempt in life. That's a guarantee. In fact, the more we do in life, the more chance there is not to succeed in some things. But what a rich life we are having! Win or lose, we just keep winning.
Susan Jeffers
#73. Whatever hand life has dealt you, seeing it positively will always make it a winning one!
Stephen Richards
#74. There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
Jojo Moyes
#75. Yes, you may have your cake and eat it too. I will only take the rest of the world along with all the other cakes in it, thank you!
C. JoyBell C.
#76. Talk passionately and act compassionately. The only thing you can do in your life to win the world is to be a kind speaker and a kind listener. That's what makes the humankind. Kind listening and kind speaking. Passionately talk and compassionately act.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#77. When you move your focus from competition to contribution life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people, just win their hearts.
Gautama Buddha
#78. What makes big boobs and perkiness so attractive to boys? I mean, really. Two round, mounds of fat and a fake smile. Yeah, winning attributes.
Gena Showalter
#79. The First Continental Congress made its first act a prayer, the beginning of a great tradition. We have then a lesson from the founders of our land. That lesson is clear: That in the winning of freedom and in the living of life, the first step is prayer.
Ronald Reagan
#80. I'm so tired of pretending like my life isn't perfect and bitchin' and just winning every second, I'm not perfect, and bitching and just delivering the goods at every fucking turn. Because look what I'm dealing with, man - I'm dealing with fools and trolls. I'm dealing with soft targets.
Charlie Sheen
#81. How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.
Parker J. Palmer
#82. Hump it, bump it, whack it! It might be a recipe for a good sex life but it won't win the World Cup.
Ken Bates
#83. I'm at the stage of my career when it's not only about winning and developing players, it's about having fun. That's a void in your life right now, but it's something you're going to have here.
Rick Pitino
#84. Failure is not an option, winning or learning are the options.
Debasish Mridha
#85. God made us for more than just barely getting by. We weren't meant to sit on the sidelines of life because with God, we are on the winning team!
Joel Osteen
#86. If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.
Sheldon B. Kopp
#87. I found that while life drags on when you're losing, it marches on when you're winning.
Tony Dungy
#88. You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
Arthur Ashe
#89. The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.
Joshua Nkomo
#90. For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.
Lance Armstrong
#91. Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or losing a game of chess. Do you not think that we should all consider it to be our primary duty to learn at least the names of the pieces and how to position them on the chessboard?
Aldous Huxley
#92. And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or break!
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#93. And there shall be for thee all soft delight
That shadowy thought can win,
A bright torch, and a casement ope at night,
To let the warm Love in!
John Keats
#94. I can't tell you how many life lessons I've learned through bowling. Time management, finding balance in life, how to lose, how to win, how to bowl as a team and deal with people. How to do something I love to do and inspire other people.
Diandra Asbaty
#95. Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.
Lady Gaga
#96. Going to the gym was never about 'working out' like it is for most people. To me, It was a matter of life or death. It was either me or the weights-and I was going to win. I've always had that competitive streak, whether it was in the gym, on the stage, or In anything else I did.
Rich Gaspari
#97. Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
Wilma Rudolph
#98. He said that he felt as though he was in a life-or-death war with these urges, and that they were winning because they were so much stronger than his willpower.
Jennifer Gregg
#99. Let's play a game of whose life sucks worse ... I'll win, I always win ...
Ellen Pompeo
#100. An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turning point of my life. That's how I got into modeling and later started acting.
Bipasha Basu
