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That she made a point to eat only the gristliest chicken bits, the burned biscuits, the mealiest potatoes, while she complained that his children were, variously, weak-minded, hysterical or sickly, and seemed to imply that such afflictions were the result of the lack of a good piece of steak or a new bonnet, was only circumstance; were she installed on a throne at a twelve-course banquet table teaming with all of God's creatures brought from both air and field, trussed and roasted and swimming in their own succulent juices, she would heap her plate with the most exquisite victuals and lament that his feeble offspring were the way they were because they had it too well and what they really needed was a vat of cold porridge and a tureen full of dirt.
— Paul Harding, Tinkers
The false world is full of illusions and misery.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If you are miserable you grow in misery and if you are joyful you grow in joy.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Magnus rolled onto his back and put his feet up on the arm of the sofa. “What do you care if Alec’s miserable?” “What do I care?” Jace said, so loudly that Chairman Meow rolled off the couch and landed on the floor. “Of course I care about Alec; he’s my best friend, my parabatai. And he’s unhappy. And so are you, by the look of things. Takeout containers everywhere, you haven’t done anything to fix up the place, your cat looks dead—“ “He’s not dead.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.
— L. Frank Baum, The Patchwork Girl of Oz
You can blame people and situations for your misery, hunger, deprivation and illness, but you are the only person can be blamed for your illiteracy.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Writing does not cause misery, it is born of misery.
— Michel de Montaigne
Misery can only be quelled but never cured.
— Nina -, Johnny Kiddow
I have learned that trying to control other people’s opinions of you is the fastest possible route to unhappiness.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
Misery alternates with euphoria.
— Patricia Gaffney, The Saving Graces
Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.
— Steve Almond, Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us
She gave him a strange maternal grin.For the first time, clearly, the thought surfaced in Paul Sheldon’s mind: I am introuble here. This woman is not right.
— Stephen King
When you are deep in misery, you reach out to those who can help, people who can understand.
— Piper Kerman, Orange Is the New Black
They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
— William James
If I have become my father, then I shall have my father's blade. Thorn is my dragon, and a thorn he shall be to all enemies. It is only right, then, that I should wield the sword, misery. Misery and Thorn, a fit match. Besides, Zar'roc should have gone to Morzan's eldest son, not his youngest. It is mine by right of birth." A cold pit formed in Eragon's stomach. It can't be. A cruel smile appeared on Murtagh's face. "I never told you my mother's name, did I? And you never told my yours. I'll say it now: Selena.
— Christopher Paolini, Eldest
I am a solitary wave in the dark and desolate sea: and the sparkling glass I drank was drugged with misery.
— Adelbert von Chamisso, Peter Schlemihl's wundersame Geschichte
An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kunti, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.
— Anonymous
The cup of life was poisoned forever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness, penetrated by no light but the glimmer of two eyes that glared upon me.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
She is a compassionate Amazon forming a muse from misery, full of graphic words, she doesn't hide, she speaks, she writes, she uses words that individualise her, she goes deeper and people cannot grasp her, they are frustrated, she is condemned because she is herself, she puts her self in the world and the world misunderstands her because she is uncomfortable.
— Laura Gentile, Seraphic Addiction
The need for gain, and advantage over others, is one of the chief driving forces behind all human misery.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
He was dimly angry with himself, he did not know why. It was that he had struck his wife. He had forgotten it, but was miserable about it, notwithstanding. And this misery was the voice of the great Love that had made him and his wife and the baby and Diamond, speaking in his heart, and telling him to be good. For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds. On Mount Sinai, it was thunder; in the cabman's heart it was misery; in the soul of St John it was perfect blessedness.
— George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind
These are slum kids, I was a slum kid. Everybody talks like that.
— Red
I'm tired of being responsible for other people's misery. I can't even put up with my own.
— Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility
The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.
— Stephen King
It'd felt good to be part of an "us," with the same thoughts, the same feelings, the same miseries.
— Jennifer Brown
I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.
— Albert Camus, A Happy Death
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
— C.S. Lewis
I have a dream my life would be. So different from this hell I'm living. So different now from what it seem. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed."*Fantine
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
What greater evil could you wish a miser than long life?
— Syrus Publilius
Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care...Hardly one day in a hundred of unbroken joy and sunshine. And you are of that small number who at lucky! As for the other men, stagnant night is upon them.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Pain and suffering are inevitable in our lives, but misery is an option
— Chip Beck
And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
When that bastard calls back, you tell him he’s won this round. I’ll marry him. But I don’t take well to being blackmailed, and tell him I intend to spend the rest of my life making him miserable, got that?
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Ain't She Sweet
Hold it right there. The only agreement we ever had was that you intended to make me as miserable as possible, and I intended to courageously make the best of an intolerable situation like valiant Southern women have always done.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Ain't She Sweet
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
— Oscar Wilde
Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
If you're confused about what to do,it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.
— Tommy Lasorda
I have won.
— Erin Hunter
Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.
— Lady Gaga, Lady Gaga: Born This Way
Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.
— Amby Burfoot, Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life
When you win, you don't examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how hard you've worked and how physically talented you are; it doesn't particularly define you beyond those characteristics.Losing on the other hand, really does say something about who you are. Among other things it measures are: do you blame others, or do you own the loss? Do you analyze your failure, or just complain about bad luck?If you're willing to examine failure, and to look not just at your outward physical performance, but your internal workings, too, losing can be valuable. How you behave in those moments can perhaps be more self-defining than winning could ever be. Sometimes losing shows you for who you really are.
— Lance Armstrong, Every Second Counts
Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.
— Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One
If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner. You know what a winner is? A winner is somebody who has given his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can, who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something. It doesn't mean that they accomplished it or failed, it means that they've given it their best. That's a winner.
— Walter Payton, Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton
Obstacles are challenges for winners and excuses for losers
— M.E. Kerr
Games are lost and won in your mind as much as they are on the field.
— Carl Deuker, Gym Candy
Now I realized that me and him were just alike. We were both born to win. And, when we were not winning, it was OK 'cause we were busy planning to win.
— Sister Souljah, The Coldest Winter Ever
TODD!" I shout again -And he looks at me -And I hear my name in his Noise -And I know it -I know it in my heart -Right now -Todd Hewitt -There's nothing we can't do toge
— Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer
You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
I GOT TIGAR BLOOD
— Charlie Sheen
Play to win because almost doesn't cut it.
— Ana Monnar
Life is a game, you can't afford to lose.
— Tracy Bleers
Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.
— Albert Payson Terhune
It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.
— E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
In this life, you have winners and losers. the more you win, the higher you go.
— Daniel Nayeri, Another Faust
Champions are built on a thousand invisible mornings.
— Kirk Cousins
I can win anytime. Kevin's going to go back to Burbank and tell everybody in his cubicle how he won at the Golden Nugget. Sometimes the pot isn't the money.
— Heidi Cullinan, Double Blind
I am not a killer. I just win - Thoroughly - After all, winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
...and it's not my place to chase around after you, fixing stuff. What I know's what I know, and it don't include putting the world back the way it out to be. It's too late for that. Way too late for heroes, champions, miracles. Don't matter what our heritage was maybe meant for - your side got hold of it first, and you won long ago. No undoing that, Esau, I ain't fool enough to think otherwise. I'm still sorry for you, but I know your side's won, this side of the grave.
— Peter S. Beagle, We Never Talk about My Brother
Losing is an illusion that begins in your mind.Winning is a certainty that ends in quitting.
— Nabil Basma
There is no such thing as cheating. There is only winning or losing.
— Kiersten White, And I Darken
To the consummate competitor, winning is not the same as beating your opponents. Winning is playing to your absolute best; beating others is a corollary effect, not the primary goal.
— Alisa Melekhina, Reality Check: What the Ancient Game of Chess Can Teach You About Success in Modern Competitive Settings
Before her angry impulses got the better of her, she admonished herself that she was born to win and that one did not win by throwing temper tantrums--at least not outside of one's own home, which could result in vicious, spurious rumors.
— Anna Godbersen, Envy
One did not win by throwing temper tantrums.
— Anna Godbersen, Envy
You only reveal your game plan when you know you're winning, or losing.
— Ahmed Mostafa
He had a winning smile and it was evident that he didn't think he was any better than anybody else even though he was.
— Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
I thought it wasn’t winning or losing but how you played the game that matters.” 
— “Just ask anyone who came in second place if that is true.
You've got to lose to know how to win.
— Steven Tyler
Sometimes, life is all about just surviving. Whether one gives up or not that differentiates the winners from the losers.
— Mayur Ramgir
The difference between champions and everyone else is that champions are never afraid of losing, while everyone else is afraid of winning.
— Jeffrey Fry
Anybody can lose,' cautioned Mr J.L.B. Matekoni. 'You need to remember that every time you win.
— Alexander McCall Smith, Blue Shoes and Happiness
Winning. We want to win
—  it may go otherwise. We accept. Losing. We never want to fall though it goes otherwise. Shouldn't we accept?
They’ll Keep Telling You Win The Game, But I ‘m Telling You, Always Enjoy Being a part Of It.
— Sami Abouzid
The satisfaction of winning/being a winner, comes with the dissatisfaction of seing losers
— Viorica Dragotel
Winning isn’t getting ahead of others. It’s getting ahead of yourself.
— Roger Staubach
Even the good guys,' she said, 'can't win all the time.
— Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
You don't win by wishing for your competitor or enemy to be weak and broke
—  you win when you build yourself to be strong and to do the winning job right
Entrepreneurs don't just like to win, they live to win. Winning is not just their habit but also their lifestyle.
— Farshad Asl
If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
We can lose the roll, we can lose position, but we can constantly strive to win the moment.
— Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
There is two rules to win your battle,Fight smart & fight alone
— Mohammed Sekouty
Sometimes i's not about the win, it's about the experience.
— Junnita Jackson
How I win over you is “with modulation of words that i use, winning is not the argument but peace of mind. You may call it diplomatic, guess what? I don't care !
— Praveen Chenna
Here is the first rule of winning.You have to win small before you can win big.
— K.J. Kilton, Winning Heather
I can't say i would be the winner, but i can say i will try to be the winner in any challenges.
— Abdulsalam Unshur
If you want to win the race be prepared to get off the starting blocks!
— Joy Maitland
Associating with winners may not make you a winner, but associating with losers will definitely not make you one.
— Jeffrey Fry
There were people who gave everything they had to the war because it was the last war and by winning it we would remove war like a thorn from the flesh of the world and there wouldn't be any more such horrible nonsense.
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
A winner has more skills than a loser," Vor said, "no matter how you define the competition.
— Brian Herbert, The Butlerian Jihad
What I don't like is what it sometimes takes to win. Backstabbing. Manipulation. Out-and-out bribery once in a while, and not always the monetary kind.
— Ellen Hopkins, Perfect
The ski club was a frugal and intergenerational group. It gave dime-store trophies for speed and agility within categories of gender, age, and experience, and so eventually everyone got a trophy.
— Meredith Marple, What Took So Long?: A Group-Phobic, Uncomfortable Competitor's Journey to Mahjong - A Memoir Essay
You can win in multiple ways - A managershould never restrict himself when it comes to exploring possibilities.
— Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.
— Jesse Owens
I lost my second judo tournament. I finished second, losing to a girl named Anastasia. Afterward, her coach congratulated me."You did a great job. Don't feel bad, Anastasia is a junior national champion."I felt consoled for about a second, until I noticed the look of disgust on Mom's face. I nodded at the coach and walked away.Once we were out of earshot she lit into me. "I hope you know better than to believe what he said. You could have won that match. You had every chance to beat that girl. The fact that she is a junior national champion doesn't mean anything. That's why they have tournaments, so you can see who is better. They don't award medals based on what you won before. If you did your absolute best, if you were capable of doing nothing more, then that's enough. Then you can be content with the outcome. But if you could have done better, if you could have done more, then you should be disappointed. You should be upset you didn't win. You should go home and think about what you could have done differently and then next time do it differently. Don't you ever let anyone tell you that not doing your absolute best is good enough. You are a skinny blonde girl who lives by the beach, and unless you absolutely force them to, no one is ever going to expect anything from you in this sport. You prove them wrong.
— Ronda Rousey, My Fight / Your Fight
Losing from Champion is not that muchMournful,As Winning from Champion is,'PROUD AS PEACOCK'.
— Fahad Rashiq
When you are gambling, though you probably do not know it, your mind is on the tide, the ebb and flow of the Universe, and there is no way to fight it. Going with the flow is the only option, so there is no point in struggling against it, but, it will tell you how you sit with God, or the Universe, at that particular time in your life.
— Robert  Black
Winning" is taking the talent or potential you were born with, and have since developed, and using it fully toward a goal or purpose that makes you happy.
— Denis Waitley
Imagine yourself winning?.. Wouldn't that make you overconfident?''Not at all... It's called "positive visualisation", like being a runner: see yourself making it across the finish line, you pace yourself better, run a better race too. See yourself winning at poker, you make the winning calls. See yourself as a loser, you've not got the self-belief or determination to play well, no matter how much money you gamble.'Chester - to JenniferI was shocked to hear the words of the Love Professor echoed by Chester: like yourself and you'll win; think you're a loser, and sure enough you'll end up losing.
— Jennifer Cox, Around the World in 80 Dates
Sometimes losing is winning
—  an open door is an attestation of a bunged door that was once open.
Nothing in life that is of value comes easy. If good things came easily then the value would be diminished. When we have a vested interest, when we give everything we have, then, and only then are those good times valuable.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
We live in a society that only embraces success and that is who we are. It takes a great deal of inner strength to deal with the time commitment of coaching when very little seems to be accomplished.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
Coaching is like riding a roller coaster with many ups and downs. The true test is weathering the storm. The average length of time anywhere in America that a man is a head high school football coach is three years.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
Before you can win, you must begin.
— Connie R. Clay
Those who will have studied the past that can define the future will succeed as other who don't will have misled full of lies.
— Luis Cosajay
When you win nothing hurts.
— Joe Namath
When a man's friend wins, a little piece of him dies.
— Lois P. Frankel, Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers
It is important for coaches to mentor young people toward those things that are most important in life and aid them in creating their own order of priorities to live by.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
I truly believe that success is determined not on Friday nights during games but rather in practice away from the lights and glimmer where coaches and players only have each other, their sweat, their discipline and their loyalty to each other. It is at practice where the boys of America become men through hard work, dedication and perseverance.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
The development of the “We Believe” philosophy must be real and not cosmetic. Everyone must buy in and understand that it is not a motivational tool, but rather something very personal that should be lived and that all must believe in order for true success to be achieved.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
I think we had to hit rock-bottom in all facets of the program before we could ever start moving in a positive direction.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
If you are not a part of the solution then you must be part of the problem. I am done with problems here!
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
I will not promise boys positions, I will not promise any of you football success, I will demand discipline, character, respect, and work ethic throughout the program. If I succeed in getting people to believe then success will follow.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
The great cancer facing all of us during this ‘new millennium’ is entitlement.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
•	“…it is easy to read that this game is more than just a game, it is a culmination of a group of coaches and boys on a mission to not just experience, but rather to achieve something that only they believe is truly possible.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
Before success can truly become routine, there must be that transition from that wanting/hoping to have success toward honestly knowing you can earn success with your talents and work ethic.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
To achieve any group goal, individuals must work to improve themselves as a means to improve the group.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
I teach our young men that respect is earned each day on the practice field, in the classroom, and how each young man lives his life.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
The third year at a school for any head coach is the most important year for the program they are attempting to develop.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
A team goal requires a team effort.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
Coaches must take calculated risks all the time. One thing is to talk about what you plan to do and another is to prepare and then execute a plan toward change.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
As of today, you do anything that I feel is disrespecting our program in any way, you are gone! From this day forward, everyone will be at practice in uniform as we will either build this program into something or we will destroy it!
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
The unknown can be a great tool.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
It is more likely that coaches have players go down in games they are losing than games they are winning.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
America is a country built on unity, hard work and diligent pursuit of personal goals leading to collective success.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
Once an athlete feels his coach does not believe in him resentment develops and everyone loses at that point.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
This is truly a rags to riches story which doesn’t happen often, but it does happen. Hope is offered to those who face similar challenges that in this great Country dreams can be realized when work ethic and passion lead the way.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
The coaches will offer a direction, a plan, routine, discipline and the players must develop the desire to work together accepting their roles as they learn in preparation for the season.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
The youth of America need routine, repetition toward excellence, a sound but not punishing discipline, and the opportunity to make mistakes without the feeling of failure.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
Every time our great Country has been critically challenged either by dictators or terrorists, we as a Country have put aside our personal agendas and focused on doing what we need to do to win when threatened.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
•	I have experienced the youth of Generation X, Y and currently Z. Teenage boys have changed in many ways over the years. Yet still they are quite similar to the boys I first coached in 1980 at a high school in Ohio.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
we first need to get boys out for football and then the plan will gradually come into play
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
It is so easy to judge those around us and decide their value without knowing who they really are or what they truly represent.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
Being fired is part of the risk when anyone plans to take on the responsibility as a head coach.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
Sports programs are an important part of young people’s lives but should never over-shadow the true purpose of high school and that is to earn a diploma. So often today sports have become more important than an education. This must be remedied because the true focus must always be toward the student’s academic development.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
Winners accept responsibility because acceptance of responsibility nullifies excuses.
— George M.   Gilbert, Team Of One: We Believe
Over all this lay Hoppie's dictum: First with the head and then with the heart. Winning was something you worked at intellectually, emotion clouds the mind and is its natural enemy. This made for a loneliness which often let me aching to share an emotion but equally afraid that if I did so I would reveal a weakness which could later be used against me.
— Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One
It was the secret to winning any contest, he said, in life or in the boxing ring – you just had to get up more than you fell down.
— Kameron Hurley, Rapture
We don't need to win all the time. We should embrace losing. Losing weight, bad employees, disloyal friends...These aren't bad things @ all!
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
It’s much harder to twist the charitable arm of a lottery winner compared to that of a man at his lowest ebb. It sounds like the wrong way round at first, but when you really put your nut to it, people are more frightened of losing the big shit than of having fuck all to begin with and losing a bit of that.
— Carla H. Krueger, The Social Worker
Fucking Hallmark never wrote anything for how I felt then. When Metallica and the rest of the metal community pitched in to pay for Acrassicauda, the Iraqi heavy metal band, to move to the US is the only thing that comes close. And maybe the late-breaking success of Anvil. I had a toasty heart, especially after I got called back to pick up first prize for Miss Frizz. Ah, never mind. You know what I'm saying.
— Susan Juby, Home to Woefield
Hume hummed in his head. Reason versus passion- David versus Goliath. Let the Goliath win for one last time. But the world is full of the Davids, the begging bastards, passing of their defeat as a win over the favorites. Why the world sides with the under-doggies. A favorite is nobody's favorite, but one's one. As if he has to pay a toll tax for his tolls.
— Aporva Kala, Life... Love... Kumbh...
We might not win today" But Time is our best friend, HE will catch up with you and drag you down... Vengeance will be ours
— RSM
While I told myself that each win was a small deposit on the ultimate ownership of the world welterweight crown, the enormous need in me to win touched a whole heap of other responses a fourteen years old can't really work out. It had something to do with rejecting the Lord, with my mother, the Judge, being surrounded by guys who came from wealthy homes, even my headless snake. While I didn't think of it as camouflage, I now know that it was, that I kept myself protected by being out in front. Too far in front to be an easy mark.
— Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One
It just a fun game, until someone starts to win and then everyone else begins to cheat!
— Andrew James Pritchard
Winning is great but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.
— Wilma Rudolph
Life is a game that you win when you solve the puzzle of yourself.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
She used to compete with Edward to determine the prettier creation, and she always emerged victorious. But in retrospect, even if she had made the world’s ugliest snow angel, Edward would have still declared her the winner because he was Edward, and that was the type of person he was. Winning was of little significance to him, what mattered most was that they had an enjoyable time together.
— Alexis Lawrence, Seasons: The Mysterious Woman
Marriage as a team means working and playing together toward a winning season.
— Ashleigh Slater, Team Us: Marriage Together
Someone has to be the best
—  the champion
You win some, you lose some, you wreck some.
— Dale Earnhardt Jr.
We all love a winner but even more, we love a winner who overcomes insurmountable odds. That’s because we all know, at our core, that the human spirit needs to achieve, to triumph, to accomplish to be satisfied and that it can’t be done without sacrifice, adversity and strife. Our spirits sing when we witness others overcome and win because it reminds us of the hope and the promise that’s within us all.
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
The ones who win usually don't need the prize.
— Jake Colsen, So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore: An Unexpected Journey
Compromise is a sign you'll pass on the road to mediocrity.
— Tim Fargo
When you are successful every day, success loses its value.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I get to leave here and do what I love, whether I win or lose. And that seems to matter more than anything else.
— Kelly Fiore Stultz, Taste Test
The tonic of success is a marvelous producer as well as stimulant. By the law of mental magnetism one success attracts another, and after we begin to win it is comparatively easy to keep on winning.
— Orison Swett Marden
Compromise is a sign you'll pass on your way to mediocrity.
— Tim Fargo
Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound.
— Orrin Woodward
Learn to Lose, Wade to Win.
— Vikrmn, 10 Alone
It's not about the money. It's about the love! Do what you do because it brings joy to yourself and others. When it starts to become more about money and less about the people and your own personal happiness, that’s when it becomes a chore. At that point your drive as well as the quality of your product will start to slack. I feel if you’re truly enjoying what you do and are enriching the lives of others, you’ve already won.
— Vanna B.
Get fired, no one will call you a quitter.
— Vikrmn, 10 Alone
I figured this was the easy stuff, and if we couldn't show up on time, looking right and acting right, we weren't going to be able to do anything else.
— Bo Schembechler, Bo's Lasting Lessons: The Legendary Coach Teaches the Timeless Fundamentals of Leadership
If there’s no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
— Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory
Winning is a science, educate yourself to win .
— Sandeep Kakkar
A person who buys excuses will soon attempt to sell them to others.
— Orrin Woodward
Deal with your wins and losses alike. With tequila, lemon and a pinch of salt.
— Saleem Sharma
You will never win if you never begin.
— Helen Rowland
Let him talk," said Dupin, who had not thought it necessary to reply. "Let him discourse; it will ease his conscience, I a satisfied with having defeated him in his own castle.
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales
I always win because I only play for win
— Krunal Soni
Forget the adage Win/Win and make a commitment to Learn/Learn. Win/Win is good, but implies an end. Once you win, then what? Learn/Learn creates a paradigm of ongoing value. This creates a Learn/Learn situation. I learn about you and you learn about me. And we learn from each other.
— Ted Rubin
You've got to be in it to win it
— David Fuentes, Win Competitions Online
Self belief, Wise choice and Karma are the three main ingredients of Winners.
— Sandeep Kakkar
Qué lindo es sonar despierto, he says. How lovely it is to dream while you are awake. Dream while you are awake, Andre. Anybody can dream while they're asleep, but you need to dream all the time, and say your dreams out loud, and believe in them.In other words, when in the final of a slam, I must dream. I must play to win.
— Andre Agassi, Open
You can’t get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Some days making it to the end of the day is quite the victory. -- Bea
— Jennifer Brown, Hate List
If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
I hate to lose more than I love to win.
— Jimmy Connors
Making an effort can be equated to not doing anything at all. You don't make an effort to walk, you just walk. It's the same with winning. You don't make an effort to win, you just do it.
— Lionel Suggs
Look in his eyes. He has died a thousand times these last moments...You defeated him utterly the moment you saw fear in his eyes. All else is redundancy.
— Nathan Long, Jane Carver of Waar
He always accuses me of trying to look'cool', I was like, 'everybody tries to look cool, I just happen to be successful.
— Daniel Clowes, Ghost World
She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away.
— Cynthia Voigt, When She Hollers
From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has popped into the world with the coming of spring. Her eyes moved like an independent organism with joy, laughter, anger, amazement, and despair. I hadn't seen a face so vivid and expressive in ages, and I enjoyed watching it live and move.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Spackle!” Manchee barks, tho he’s too chicken to attack now that I’ve held back. “Spackle! Spackle! Spackle!”“Shut up, Manchee,” I say.“Spack
— Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go
You know, there's no more dangerous creature on Earth than the teenage girl.
— Miranda Kenneally, Catching Jordan
I'm a girl."When Deryn opened her eyes, the lady boffin was staring at her with no change of expression. "Indeed," she
— Scott Westerfeld, Goliath
She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it would leave a bruise. So as we sat in the afternoon hour, beneath that fragrant linden bower, I had to chase all of the leafs that fell away.
— Roman Payne
sometime hate is just confused love!
— Omar Tyree
It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.
— Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
It's not that girls are delusional, per se. It's just that they have this subtle ability to warp actual circumstances into something different.
— Rebecca Serle, When You Were Mine
Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find his words so valuable after all that when he confessed his apprehensions she would explain why they were in fact the very things that made him precious to her...and to Western Civilization! There was no such girl, the simple truth being.
— John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse
I'm an ugly girl,My face makes you hurl,Sad I have it, I should bag it.Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair.I'm a relation to Frankenstein's creation.
— Al Yankovic
And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brave. They met us well. They changed us. It was in their nature to.
— Ali Smith, Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis
He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed.
— Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
Can you play the piano like Beethoven? Or sing like Carly Simon? Can you take fie pages' worth of quotes and turn them into a usable story ten minutes before deadline? I don't think so, unless you have more hidden talents I don't know about. We all have our special sills. They don't make us better or worse than each other. Just different
— Jennifer Estep, Karma Girl
Then I saw her smile so close to my eye that there was nothing to see but the smile and the thought came into my head that I’d never been inside a smile before. Who’d have thought being inside a smile would be so ancient and so modern both at once
— Ali Smith, Girl Meets Boy
The pressure of his touch through my jacket and my sweater was more assurance than any promise ever made to me. It was a touch that said, I have your back and I am here for you. If a girl wasn't careful, she could fall in love with a touch like that.
— Justina Chen, North of Beautiful
You looked strange climbing in the tree like that."Tiger Lily pulled her braids between her fingers, her sudden self-consciousness feeling foreign and strange to her. "I didn't do it to look nice," she said."But you do care."Tiger Lily studied the tree and decided if she did care, she would now choose not to. "I don't," she said."All girls do," he added, pushing the point."You must not know many girls.""I know a million," Peter said, dark and serious. There was a long awkward silence, but if Peter regretted his words, I couldn't tell.
— Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily
Despite my dad's assurances I was strangely nervous my stomach tight ever since we'd hung up. Maybe Deb had picked up on this and it was why she'd pretty much talked nonstop since I'd approached her and asked for a ride. I'd barely had time to explain the situation before she had launched into a dozen stories to illustrate the point that Things Happened But People Were Okay in the End.
— Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
I was a daisy fresh girl and look what you've done to me.
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.
— Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
What does she want to be? A green girl doesn't like to consider this question. She is waiting around to be discovered just for being herself.
— Kate Zambreno, Green Girl
I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.
— Björk
She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.
— Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
The happening that happened was that I met this girl ...
— Markus Zusak, Underdog
You're a brave, brave girl, Tula" Gaby told her."I know", said the little girl. "I got it from you.
— James Patterson, The Christmas Wedding
He spotted Jill sitting about thirty feet away, face tipped toward the sun, her straight brown hair tucked behind one ear and slanted across her neck. And Ben decided that when her mouth wasn't full of tuna salad, she was sort of pretty.
— Andrew Clements, We the Children
Why shan't I cheat when every girl has a different taste?
— M.F. Moonzajer
Oh God, I'm sorry I bring trouble on people. I don't mean to, you know that, you know that. And don't punish me by taking Ned. Keep him safe that's all I ask. That's all I'll ever ask again, just keep him safe.
— Catherine Cookson, The Girl
You make your son out to be to be almost an idiot; well let me tell you something, Mrs Loan, if he were a complete idiot, drooling at the mouth, he'd still be a better person then you.
— Catherine Cookson, The Girl
But you shouldn't have let her. That's the only way with these fanciful women that chaw high--innocent or guilty. She'd have come round in time. We all do! Custom does it! It's all the same in the end! However, I think she's fond of her man still--whatever he med be of her. You were too quick about her. I shouldn't have let her go! I should have kept her chained on-- her spirit for kicking would have been broke soon enough! There's nothing like bondage and a stone-deaf taskmaster for taming us women. Besides, you've got the laws on your side. Moses knew.
— Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
There was a young girl named Ratchet.She had skill and no one could match it.She wanted to beMore stylish and carefree,But she couldn't give up her Ratchet.
— Nancy J. Cavanaugh, This Journal Belongs to Ratchet
She tasted of coffee and day old poetry.
— R. Y.S. Perez, I Hope You Fall in Love: Poetry Collection
There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird,When it finds its nest left empt and little ones gone." - Sentry
— Sophocles, Antigone
He feels her heart race madly against his own and for a second he thinks it’s finally happened , he’s come alive.
— M.C. Frank, No Plain Rebel
I feel strange...I really don't know what I am. In mind I'm almost a woman, in body a young woman. I am almost a woman, but what am I now? I'm no child. I am mature. I know much; I'm somewhere in between. I'm confused--that's what I am. One day I'll long for a baby in my arms or a man's strong arms to hold me...the next, for freedom, respect.
— Maya Morrow, Silicon Valley Girl: My Adolescent Life and Times, and an Ode to Generation X
I hate to be what is called a clever girl—there are too many of that sort now!
— Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
My problem is that I want to smoke the cigar and for someone else to light it. I want to blow out smoke. Like a volcano. Like a monster. I want to fume. I do not want to be the girl whose job it is to wail in a high-pitched voice at funerals.
— Deborah Levy, Hot Milk
2. Stutter. I can be on the phone for hours with my best friend, but if confronted by a cute guy, wham! I get power outage, my brain is short circuited. You'd be lucky to get anything out of me besides "er...um...uh..." and a ton of blushing.3.Stumble. I trip over my own feet. Yeah it's easy to do that when you're five feet seven and gangly, but I managed to make the dance teacher cry when I was five years old. Or even worse, I knock things over and spill things over and spill food.
— Aya Ling, The Ugly Stepsister
A daughter is chiseled to chisel the world.
— Karishma Gajipara
I feel like a three-dimensional girl in a two-dimensional world.
— Lauren Myracle, The Infinite Moment of Us
He makes a face and tosses the flower at me. It lands on my cheek, and I pick it up and twirl it between my fingers. I could lie out here all day, not moving an inch, feeling the sun above and the grass below. With a contented sigh, I stretch my arms wide, raking the grass with my fingers—and find myself brushing Aladdin’s hand with my own. I pull it away quickly, my cheeks warming. He laughs a little.“Sometimes,” he says, “I forget you’re supposed to be four thousand years old. You act as shy as a girl of sixteen.”“I do not!” I sit up and glare at him.He grins and shrugs, sliding his hands under his head. There are bits of grass stuck in his hair, and after a moment’s hesitation, I reach over and flick them away.Aladdin watches me silently, his throat bobbing as he swallows. I drop my gaze.
— Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish
Sam,” Astrid yelled. “Quick.”Sam thought he was too far gone to respond, but he somehow started his feet moving again and went up to where Little Pete was standing and Astrid kneeling.There was a girl lying in the dirt. Her clothing was a mess, her black hair ratty. She was Asian, pretty without being beautiful, and little more than skin and bones. But the first thing they noticed was that her forearms ended in a solid concrete block.Astrid made a quick sign of the cross and pressed two fingers against the girl’s neck. “Lana,” Astrid cried.Lana sized up the situation quickly. “I don’t see any injuries. I think maybe she’s starving or else sick in some other way.”“What’s she doing out here?” Edilio wondered. “Oh, man, what did someone do to her hands?”“I can’t heal hunger,” Lana said. “I tried it on myself when I was with the pack. Didn’t work.”Edilio untwisted the cap from his water bottle, knelt, and carefully drizzled water across the girl’s cheek so that a few drops curled into her mouth.“Look, she’s swallowing.”Edilio broke a tiny bite from one of the PowerBars and placed it gently into the girl’s mouth. After a second the girl’s mouth began to move, to chew.“There’s a road over there,” Sam said. “I think so, anyway. A dirt road, I think.”“Someone drove by and dumped her here,” Astrid agreed.Sam pointed at the dirt. “You can see how she dragged that block.”“Some sick stuff going on,” Edilio muttered angrily. “Who would do something like this?
— Michael Grant, Gone
Maybe she's a spaghetti girl.....straight until wet.
— Jodi Lerner (Marlee Matlin's L Word character)
She said she collects pieces of sky, cuts holes out of it with silver scissors, bits of heaven she calls them.Every day a bevy of birds flies rings around her fingers, my chorus of wives, she calls them.Every day she reads poetry from dusty books she borrows from the library, sitting in the park, she smiles at passing strangers, yet can not seem to shake her own sad feelings.She said that night reminds her of a cool hand placed gently across her fevered brow, said she likes to fall asleep beneath the stars, that their streaks of light make her believe that she too is going somewhere.“Infinity”, she whispers as she closes her eyes, descending into thin air, where no arms outstretch to catch her.
— Lisa Zaran
He paused, wishing to embrace her, but feeling for the moment that he should not. Then, reaching into a waistcoat pocket, he took from it a thin gold locket, the size of a silver dollar, which he opened and handed to her. One interior face of it was lined with a photograph of Berenice as a girl of twelve, thin, delicate, supercilious, self-contained, distant, as she was to this hour.
— Theodore Dreiser
All you have to do, to impress a girl is love her; because it'll make you do things which will impress her automatically
— Wrushank Sorte
He's seen me at my stray dog lowest and still he stood behind me, did everything he could to help me. He saw the future I could have before I even wanted it for myself, and he was the one to push me towards it. That's faith. Growing up, I thought faith was about believing Jesus died for us and that if I held on to that, I'd get to meet him when I died too. But faith doesn't mean that to me anymore. Now it means someone seeing something in you that you've never seen in yourself, and not giving up until you see it too. I want that. I miss that.
— Jessica Knoll, Luckiest Girl Alive
My first love was everything, all at once. The kind of love you fight for, the kind of boy you fight for.
— Scott Spencer