65 Best Winning Quotes On Success In Life

These winning quotes will inspire you. Winning, the act of one that wins; victory; something won.

Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging winning quotes, winning sayings, and winning proverbs.

Famous Winning Quotes

1. “If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?” ~ Vince Lombardi
2. “Look at what you could have won!” ~ Jim Bowen
3. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” ~ Vince Lombardi

4. “Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.” ~ John Wooden

5. “Winning isn’t getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself.” ~ Roger Staubach
6. “Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.” ~ Muhammad Ali
7. “The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” ~ Confucius , Winning quotes on success

8. “If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.” ~ Zig Ziglar

9. “Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.” ~ Paul Tournier
10. “As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.” ~ Winston Churchill
11. “Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.” ~ Winston Churchill

12. “To win you’ve got to stay in the game.” ~ Claude M. Bristol

13. “A winning effort begins with preparation.” ~ Joe Gibbs
14. “The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.” ~ Pele
15. “There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.” ~ Les Brown
16. “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” ~ Sun Tzu
17. “Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.” ~ Damon Hill

18. “Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

19. “Winners see what they want. Losers see what they don’t want. Don’t let the game eat you; you eat the game.” ~ Moe Norman
20. “You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.” ~ Marian Wright Edelman
21. “To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.” ~ Sugar Ray Robinson

22. “The determination to win is the better part of winning.” ~ Daisaku Ikeda

23. “Whoever said, ‘It’s not whether you win or lose that counts,’ probably lost.” ~ Martina Navratilova
24. “You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” ~ Ted Turner
25. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” ~ Vince Lombardi

26. “If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.” ~ Muhammad Ali

27. “When you win, nothing hurts.” ~ Joe Namath
28. “I look into eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, I am going to bury you.” ~ Seve Ballesteros
29. “The key to winning is poise under stress.” ~ Paul Brown

30. “The only thing I’m addicted to right now is winning.” ~ Charlie Sheen

31. “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
32. “Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can’t take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.” ~ Margaret Thatcher
33. “No matter how many mistakes you’ve made in the past, or what sort of difficulties you struggle with now, you are destined to live in victory.” ~ Joel Osteen

34. “Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!” ~ Barbara Johnson

35. “Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
36. “The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.” ~ Lily Tomlin
37. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” ~ Michael Jordan , Winning quotes in life

38. “Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.” ~ Bum Phillips

39. “The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.” ~ Joe Paterno
40. “From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.” ~ Pat Riley
41. “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.” ~ Aristotle

42. “Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.” ~ George Steinbrenner

43. “For me, winning isn’t something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.” ~ Emmitt Smith
44. “The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.” ~ Denis Waitley
45. “Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.” ~ Bernadette Devlin

46. “You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.” ~ Arthur Ashe

47. “A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.” ~ Pat Riley
48. “A loser doesn’t know what he’ll do if he loses, but talks about what he’ll do if he wins, and a winner doesn’t talk about what he’ll do if he wins, but knows what he’ll do if he loses.” ~ Eric Berne
49. “Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.” ~ Muhammad Ali

50. “Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.” ~ Vince Lombardi

51. “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
52. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” ~ Michael Jordan
53. “The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.” ~ Roger Bannister

54. “If you can’t win, make the one ahead of you break the record.” ~ John McKeithen

55. “The thrill isn’t in the winning, it’s in the doing.” ~ Chuck Noll
56. “Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.” ~ Diane Arbus , Winning quotes confidence
57. “If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.” ~ Vince Lombardi
58. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'” ~ Muhammad Ali

59. “A winner never stops trying.” ~ Tom Landry

60. “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” ~ Tommy Lasorda
61. “We need a new apologetic, geared to the needs of today, which keeps in mind that our task is not to win arguments but to win souls… Such an apologetic will need to breathe a spirit of humanity, that humility and compassion which understand the anxieties and questions of people.” ~ Pope John Paul II

62. “Victory belongs to the most persevering.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

63. “Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.” ~ George Orwell
64. “Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.” ~ Vince Lombardi
65. “The person that said winning isn’t everything never won anything.” ~ Mia Hamm

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