95 Top-Notch Quotes About Winning

"The will to win is nothing without the will to prepare to win."

Vincent Thomas Lombardi (June 11, 1913 – September 3, 1970) was an American football coach. He is a legendary football figure, best known as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers during the 1960s.


"Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people."

Nido Qubein (-) is a motivational speaker and president of High Point University, an accredited undergraduate and graduate institution with 4,000 students from 50 countries and 45 states.


"Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory."

George Smith Patton, Jr., also George Smith Patton III (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a United States Army officer best known for his leadership while commanding corps and armies as a general during World War II. He was also well-known for his controversial outspokenness.


"Knowing what really matters to your company. Winning every point is not your objective. You want to win those that truly matter."

Jill Klein (-) Riggs Bank USA


"Those who are victorious, plan effectively and change decisively."

Laozi also Lao Tse, Lao Tu, Lao-Tzu, Lao-Tsu, Laotze, Lao Zi, Laocius, and other variations (-) was a mystic philosopher of ancient China, and is a central figure in Taoism (also spelled "Daoism").


"If you don't bet, you can't win. If you lose all your chips, you can't bet."

Lawrence D. Hite (-) is a hedge fund manager, who, along with Ed Seykota, is one of the forefathers of system trading. Profiled and recognized as one of the best in the industry, in major international publications like in BusinessWeek's annual the Best of Award, Hite was name Best of 1986.


"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."

Confucius (September 28, 551 BC – 479 BC) was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher.


"Everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die."

Texas saying (-)


"For everything you have missed you have gained something."

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American philosopher, lecturer, essayist, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.


"Sometimes the best gain is to lose."

George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) was a Welsh poet, orator and Anglican priest.