Won Quotes

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.

He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

We seek outside the wonders we carry inside us.

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.

Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.

She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.

Wander often, wonder always.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Most games are lost, not won.

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.

The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won t.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

The art of being a warrior is to balance the wonder and the terror of being alive.

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. Proverbs 18:19

It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

Never regret. If it's good it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Pessimism never won any battle.

Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

Never lose your sense of wonder.

The concentration and dedication- the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost.

Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.

To hold on to the past always creates suffering. Even if it was wonderful.

I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

To be different is often a wonderful thing.

Nothing great is lightly won, nothing won is lost.

Every good deed that's nobly done will always repay the cost.

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

Wake up every morning with the thought that something wonderful is about to happen.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t.

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

The battleground of the mind is where life's most precious victories are won or lost.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

But all knowledge has to be won

Persistence is a strong will. Obstinance is a strong won

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true.

I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches.

Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.

The column's worked out great for me.

I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.

А дело бывало -- и коза волка съедала.

Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times. Many times in history there has been complete disagreement between the two branches of the Government, and in these disagreements sometimes the Congress has won and sometimes the President has won. But during the Administration of the present President we have had neither agreement nor a clear-cut battle.

If you believe you can, you probably can.

If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy;

God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won t.

For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes -- not that you won or lost -- but how you played the Game.

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over.

Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move.

Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

The world is the house of the strong.

I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won t.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

There's a blush for won t, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly.

But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do.

It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible.

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.

The 1st period is won by the best technician.

The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.

Our minds can be convinced, but our hearts must be won.

Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts, Peace, too, requires well-directed and sustained sacrificial endeavor. Given that, we can, I believe, achieve the great goal of our foreign policy, that of enabling our people to enjoy in peace the blessings of liberty.

I dont think that unless a greater effort is made by the Government to win popular support that the war can be won out there. In the final analysis, it is their war. They are the ones who have to win it or lose it. We can help them, we can give them equipment, we can send our men out there as advisers, but they have to win it, the people of Viet-Nam, against the Communists.

I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Ive every said, and I used it in the FOLLIES of 1922. I said America has a unique record. We never lost a war and we never won a conference in our lives. I believe that we could without any degree of egotism, single-handed lick any nation in the world. But we cant confer with Costa Rica and come home with our shirts on.

If the copying machines that came along later had been here during the war, I'm not sure the allies would have won. We'd all have drowned in paper.

Without cancer, I never would have won a single Tour de France.

Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things

Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a gray suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always somebody else's money he's adding up.

'Common sense is the guy that tells you that you ought to have your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in the grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up.

...even after you've just won the Super Bowl -- especially after you've just won the Super Bowl -- there's always next year. If Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing, then the only thing is nothing -- emptiness, the nightmare of life without ultimate meaning.

I won it, at least five million times.

Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.

Winning doesn't satisfy us -- we need to do it again, and again.

The taste of success seems merely to whet the appetite for more. When we lose, the compulsion to seek future success is overpowering; the need to get out on the course the following weekend is irresistible. We cannot quit when we are ahead, after we've won, and we certainly cannot quit when we're behind, after we've lost. We are addicted.

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

Life is queer with its twists and turns, As everyone of us sometimes learns, And many a failure turns about, When he might have won had he stuck it out, Don't give up though the race seems slow, You may succeed with another blow, Success is failure turned inside out, The silver tint of the clouds of doubt, And be near when it seems so far, So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit, It's when things seem worse, That you must not quit.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win -- if you don't you won t.