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"I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation."
"The most effective way to win people to Jesus is to treat them the way Jesus would day in and day out."
"I feel like people are expecting me to fail, therefore, I expect myself to win."
"The key to winning is poise under stress."
"How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens."
"The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins."
"You can’t win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose."
"It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way."
"It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized."
"They don't want you to wear the Saint Lauren fur, they don't want you to break App Store, they don't want you to be the biggest boss in the game. So what we go'n do is we go'n win more."
"Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war."
"The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength. We wouldn't touch rock if we were perfectly self-controlled. And he who would climb and live must continuously wage this battle and never let folly win. It's an outrageously demanding proposition. But I never said it was easy."
"Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins."
"I'm not afraid to speak out, and say things that I want to do, or do the things that I want to do, so um, I think in the end, being natural, and being, being actually genuine is what wins."
"Champions get up! When you’re down to nothing, God is up to something! Champions get up! Focus your mind, pull yourself together. If you are at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on! You are a champion. You are more than a conqueror. Keep the faith. Cry if you must. You are still here. God is not through with you yet. You were born to win. Champions get up! You are a champion. You have GREATNESS within you!"
"This would have been Senna's third win a row if he'd won the two before"
"Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love."
"Go in all simplicity; do not be anxious to win a quiet mind, and it will be all the quieter. Do not examine so closely into the progress of your soul. Do not crave too much to be perfect, but let your spiritual life beformed by your duties, and by the actions which are called forth by circumstances."
"Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt and enmeshed in evil that there is no possibility of salvation from within."
"Talent is extremely important. It's like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there’s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ."
