Already Won Quotes

• 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.

  Marcus Garvey

  Life, Trust, Confidence

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.12, Ravenio Books

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• In battle, if you you make your opponent flinch, you have already won.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Inspirational, Battle, Opponents

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• If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

  Marcus Garvey

  Confidence, Race, Self

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.12, Ravenio Books

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• It's that first step-getting out the door-that's the toughest. If you can do that, you've already won.

  Mary J. Blige

  Doors, Firsts, Steps

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• I’m done with the winning cause I’ve already won.

  Charlie Sheen

  Winning, Done, Causes

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• The future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity.

  Timothy Keller

  Differences, Culture, Christianity

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• Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.

  Erica Jong

  America, Outcomes, Matter

  Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.9, Penguin

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• I have learnt that all our theories are not Truth itself, but resting places or stages on the way to the conquest of Truth, and that we must be contented to have obtained for the strivers after Truth such a resting place which, if it is on a mountain, permits us to view the provinces already won and those still to be conquered.

  Justus von Liebig

  Science, Views, Mountain

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• The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

  Louise Brown

  Mother, Daughter, Clever

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• Terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil liberties that took 700 years to advance from the Magna Carta onward. The terrorists have already won the political and ideological war with one terrorist act. It is mindboggling that we are that weak as a society.

  Rocco Galati

  War, Years, Political

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• History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.

  William H. Hastie

  Mistake, Past, Giving

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• A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned to resist. He has learned the value of money, and how to refuse to spend it. He has learned the value of time, and how the conversion of it into useful things will make of his life something worthwhile. He has learned to say no, to say no at the right time and then to stand by it. Without resistance, and the self-denial which it often imposes, there is no real happiness. In the quest for happiness man must learn that temptation resisted strengthens the mind and the soul.

  Alvin R. Dyer

  Life, Real, Men

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• I could be dramatic and go "He saved my life!", but sometimes you just need to see it again. Sometimes you need to see that person want it so badly for all the right reasons, and it makes you realize that no matter what you do you already won.

  Kevin Drew

  Needs, Want, Matter

  "'Songs I Can Sing Ya': An Interview with Andy Kim and Kevin Drew". Interview With Evan Sawdey, www.popmatters.com. February 24, 2015.

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• I know that when a supersexy older girl with hips and breasts and nice hair wants to take off your glasses and to paint you a smoky eye she's merely trying to enroll you in a beauty contest she's already won. It's a kind of slummy, condescending gesture, like when rich people ask poor people where they summer. To me, this smacks of a blatant, insensitive "let them eat cake" type of chauvinism.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Summer, Girl, Nice

  "Damned". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2011.

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• I always say that if I end up in a relationship where I feel like seventy-five percent of what I was looking for is there, then I've already won, then we're all winners in that relationship.

  Sara Quin

  Winner, Ends, Feels

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• Any fool can blow something up. Any fool can destroy. But to see these guys, these firefighters and these policemen and people from all over the country, literally with buckets, rebuilding... that's extraordinary. And that's why we have already won... they can't... it's light. It's democracy. They can't shut that down.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Blow, Light

  "Video: Revisiting Jon Stewart's Post-9/11 Speech On 'The Daily Show'". "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, gothamist.com. September 20, 2001.

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• If we take into account that women have had the right to vote only for some 100 years - in some countries even less - and that we have already won seats in governments or presidential offices, I understand that men look at this rise with some anxiety.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Country, Men, Years

  Source: www.glamour.com

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  Life is a lottery that we've already won. But most people have not cashed in their tickets.

  Louise Hay

  People, Tickets, Life Is

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• Whoever can find the answer to this question: "How can I say this to my dog" has already won the game.

  Max von Stephanitz

  Dog, Games, Answers

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• I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.

  Roger Federer

  Sports, Way, Sometimes

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• Also, I've already won all the awards.

  Neil Gaiman

  Awards, Literature

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• It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Winning, Want, Stills

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• For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

  Edward Snowden

  Giving, Trying, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is no doubt about it, Messi's clearly the best player in the world. He's a phenomenon who has already won everything, but is still hungry for more. His humbleness only makes him greater.

  Marco van Basten

  Player, Doubt, Messi

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• If you have let pride get the better of you, then you have already lost, but if you grab pride by the scruff of the neck and ride it like a stallion, then you may have already won.

  Terry Pratchett

  Pride, May, Necks

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