Winner Quotes - Page 6

• I must congratulate myself, in passing, for never having lost the ability to examine my conscience, never having lost the gift of finding myself wanting & defective. Why fear the criticism of others when you, yourself, are first out of the critical gate? If self-denigration is the race I am the winner, even before the starting gun. Collect the bets.

  Frank McCourt

  Gun, Race, Self

  Frank McCourt (2005). “Teacher Man: A Memoir”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book

  William Saroyan

  Book, Eight, Half

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• If you have an orderly mind, you'll be a winner no matter where you end up. If your mind is a jumble of junk, you'll be a loser. It's as simple as that.

  Jack Gantos

  Simple, Mind, Junk

  Jack Gantos (1999). “Jack on the Tracks: Four Seasons of Fifth Grade”, p.19, Macmillan

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• One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.

  Dave Pelzer

  Humble, Humble Beginnings

  "Child abuse as entertainment" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.

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• I am not perfect." It came out in a rush of breath. "See I thought I was. Thank God I ain't. See a perfect thing ain't got a chance. The world kills it, everything perfect. (Listen to him!) Now see a thing that ain't perfect, it grows like a weed. Yeah, like a weed! A thing that ain't perfect gets hand clapping, smiles, takes the wire an easy winner. But the world ain't set up right if you perfect. You lible to run right into a brick wall. Looks like suicide. All the weeds say, looka there, it suicide!

  Harry Crews

  Suicide, Running, Weed

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• Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the past, is not like that. It isn't flat or linear. It has no outline. It is slippery, like liquid; infinite and unknowable, like space. And it is changeable: just when you think you see a pattern, perspective shifts, an alternate version is proffered, a long-forgotten memory resurfaces.

  Kate Morton

  Memories, War, Past

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• Wow, you're awesome and The universe loves a winner, so the universe must really love you!

  Libba Bray

  Love You, Wow, You Re Awesome

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• Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not, and they are the ones the world lives by. It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles — only the winners are remembered.

  John Steinbeck

  Believe, Men, Fire

  "The Portable Steinbeck: 2".

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• Shogo looked at Shuya and Noriko. "The winner's forced to transfer to another school where he or she is ordered not to mention the game and is instructed instead to lead a normal life. That's all." Shuya felt his chest well up inside and his face froze. He stared at Shogo and realized that Noriko was holding her breath. Shogo said, "I was a student in Third Year Class C, Second District, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture." He added, "I survived the Program held in Hyogo Prefecture last year.

  Koushun Takami

  School, Class, Years

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• Greeting to the final contestants of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games. The earlier revision has been revoked. Closer examination of the rule book has disclosed that only one winner may be allowed," he says. "Good luck and may the odds be ever in your favor.

  Suzanne Collins

  Book, Good Luck, Odds

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• People don't change. There are two kinds of people in the world: winners and losers. Black and white. I don't know where gray fits in, or if you can even live in that shade.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Black And White, Two, People

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• The message of "The Winner Takes It All" is straightforward: It argues that the concept of relationships ending on mutual terms is an emotional fallacy. One person is inevitably okay and the other is inevitably devastated.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Emotional, Messages, Relationships Ending

  Chuck Klosterman (2009). “Eating the Dinosaur”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Remember: You'll be left with an empty feeling if you hit the finish line alone. When you run a race as a team, though, you'll discover that much of the reward comes from hitting the tape together. You want to be surrounded not just by cheering onlookers but by a crowd of winners, celebrating as one.

  Howard Schultz

  Running, Cheer, Team

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• There will never be a successful person who, before performing a task, has doubts. Negative thoughts arise from recognizing that somewhere along the line your level of commitment has dropped below 100 percent. The winner will always be the person with the fewest doubts.

  Nicole Haislett

  Success, Commitment, Doubt

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• I never put myself in that box of you're an Oscar winner so you can only do this or that. That's one award, one night, and it does not define my career or it does not define me as an artist. I never wanted to get put in that Oscar box because that's a lonely place to be.

  Halle Berry

  Lonely, Artist, Night

  "Comic-Con: Halle Berry On Shattering Stereotypes, ‘Extant’ & ‘Storm’ Movie". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. July 8, 2015.

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• We need somebody that can unify a country in spite of a vocal powerful media that's intent on division. It's not about winning the media. It's about winning the people, and I don't think it's necessarily persuasive to eat - to cannibalize yourself. I think that you have to pick the winner.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Country, Powerful, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'm hearing in youth sports where you're not allowed to post scores of games online; everybody's gotta get a trophy. I mean, that's ridiculous. If you're a winner, you're a winner and you get a trophy. If you got second place, you don't get anything.

  Carli Lloyd

  Sports, Mean, Games

  Source: www.slate.com

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• If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with no winners, and there's another block in World War Two. And then it seems like there's another world war.

  Lance Armstrong

  Block, War, Two

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• While no rigorous proof of an optimal strategy has been achieved, Robbins has proposed the principal of "staying on a winner" and has shown it to be uniformly better than a strategy of random selection.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Strategy, Proof, Optimal

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

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• What separates the winners from the losers is that winners are able to handle problems and crises that they never imagined would occur. You hit the floor, but what counts is how fast you can get up and regroup. Failure is simply part of the equation.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Able, Loser, Problem

  Georgette Mosbacher (1994). “Feminine Force: Release the Power Within You to Create the Life You Deserve”, Touchstone

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• In order to pay it's got to be a pretty big winner. But if it's a big hit from a financial standpoint, then next year you've got a very tough comparison.

  Bill Vaughan

  Order, Years, Pay

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• The ability to make a decision is another characteristic of a winner in money matters. I have found over and over again that those who succeed in making large sums of money reach decisions very promptly and change them, if at all, very slowly. I have also found that people who fail to make money reach decisions very slowly, if at all, and change them frequently and quickly.

  Venita VanCaspel

  People, Decision, Matter

  Venita VanCaspel (1988). “Money Dynamics for the 1990s”, Simon & Schuster

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• I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. There’s not enough women like that on the screen.

  Melonie Diaz

  Strong, Bread, Female

  "Melonie Diaz, ‘Fruitvale Station’ Star, On Her Breakout Role & Why She Does Indie Films". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2013.

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• 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

  Mean, Buddhism, Winning

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• There never was a winner that didn't expect to win in advance.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Winning

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