Change Publishing - Achieve Your Full Potential - 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life

Thomas Kempis

"A President either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a single moment."

Harry S. Truman

"Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."

Harry S. Truman

"Education is the mother of leadership."

Wendell Lewis Wilkie

"Every man who takes office . . . either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing."

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

WINNING

63 Inspirational Quotes

"Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about."

Tom Chappel

"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them every day begin the task anew."

Saint Francis de Sales

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."

Aristotle

"Winning is everything, to win is all there is. Only those poor souls buried beneath the battlefield understand this."

SEAL Team Saying

"All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means - you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else."

Vince Lombardi

"Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is."

Zig Ziglar

"The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them."

Denis Waitley

"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."

Bertie C. Forbes

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."

Roger Bannister

"You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose."

Charles Lynch

"Those that know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories."

Polybius

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

Thomas Paine

"Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top."

D.A. Benton

"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."

Muhammad Ali

"The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell."

Andrew Carnegie

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."

Abraham Lincoln

"Never let defeat have the last word."

Tibetan Proverb

"There is no victory at bargain basement prices."

Dwight David Eisenhower

"There are many victories worse than a defeat."

George Eliot

"Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser."

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"The man who wins may have been counted out several times, but he didn't hear the referee."

H. E. Jansen

"Nobody remembers who came in second."

Charles Schulz

"That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning."

Richard David Bach

"If any thing goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you."

Paul "Bear" Bryant

"If winning isn't important, why do we spend all that money on scoreboards?"

Chuck Coonradt

"If winning isn't important, why keep score?"

Star Trek: The Next Generation

"Everybody is born with an equal chance to become just as unequal as he or she possibly can."

Anonymous

"The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or to evil."

Pythagoras

"There are only two places in this league: first place and no place."

Tom Seaver

"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat."

Queen Victoria

"You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win."

Vince Lombardi

"You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time."

Vince Lombardi

"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you'll be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives."

Vince Lombardi

"It's not whether you get knocked down: it's whether you get up."

Vince Lombardi

"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."

Vince Lombardi

"Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again."

Vince Lombardi

"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged by only one thing - the result."

Vince Lombardi

"It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're No. 1. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner."

Vince Lombardi

"Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, the temporary failures."

Vince Lombardi

"Success demands singleness of purpose."

Vince Lombardi

"Everybody is born with an equal chance to become just as unequal as he or she possibly can." Anonymous

"Winners dwell on and hold the self-image of that person they would most like to become. They get a vivid, clear, emotional, sensory picture of themselves as if they had already achieved their new role in life."

Anonymous

"That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning."

Richard Bach

"Ever notice that people never say "It's only a game" when they're winning?"

Ivern Ball

"The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work."

William Feather

"There is no relief at it being over. There is the joy of winning it."

Steffi Graf

"There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever."