4,440 Quotes About Winning

The benefit and danger of a democratic system of government is that anyone can win. Losing is one of the intrinsic chances you take by letting all people have a voice.

That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

All through high school and college, his judo coach and older teammates would often say to him, "You have the talent and the strength, and you practice enough, but you just don't have the desire." They were probably right. He lacked that drive to win at all costs, which is why he would often make it to the semifinals and the finals but lose the all-important championship match.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it.... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up.

In his early days at University, he'd been too green to realize winning debates, even private ones, would lose him friends.

Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.

Someday you shall meet someoneWho's gonna look at you in awe-Flying high, wings all spread,And wonder how it'd be likeTo clip those wings,Tie those feet down,And cage you forever...When you hit the ground,Remember to run

Luck is not as random as you think.Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.