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Winning—samples from our database

From the Quotations file of IdeaBank

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle -- when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

Inspirational sign on a runner's office wall

Keywords: anecdotes, business, competition, competitiveness, olympics, preparation, survival of the fittest, track and field, training, victory, winning

From the Quotations file of IdeaBank

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all-time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)
American professional football coach

Keywords: football, performance, sports, teamwork, victory, winning

From the Quotations file of IdeaBank

Ask not alone for Victory, ask for Courage
For if you can endure, you bring Honor to yourself.
Even more you bring Honor to us all...

Author unknown
words that have sent Olympic competitors into the area for more than 2,000 years

Keywords: competition, competitiveness, olympic games, olympics, winning

From the Quotations file of IdeaBank

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
Twenty-sixth President of the United States
speech before the Hamilton Club
Chicago, April 10, 1899)

Keywords: adventure, business, danger, dare, difference, entrepreneurship, excel, fear, gamble, individual, inspirational, mediocre, plan, risk, sales, timid venture, winning

From the Quotations file of IdeaBank

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with great talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Sign on the wall of Ray Kroc (1902-1984)
founder of McDonald's restaurants
(they are the words of Calvin Coolidge)

Note: see also Calvin Coolidge

Keywords: goal, objective, persevere, success, win, winning, work

From the Quotations file of IdeaBank

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't—you're right.

Mary Kay Ash (1915- )
founder, Mary Kay Cosmetics
NY Times 10-20-85

Keywords: career, confidence, defeat, difference, discouragement, individual, inspirational, lose, overcome, performance, quota, sales, sports, succeed, success, victory, win, winning

From the Anecdotes/Excerpts file of IdeaBank

OPTIMISM

Not long ago I stopped by a local playground to watch a Little League baseball game. To get myself up to speed, I asked one of the youngsters what the score was.

"We're behind 16 to nothing," he answered.

"I must say you don't seem discouraged," I said, "Why is that?"

"Discouraged?" said the boy, "Why should we be discouraged? We haven't been up to bat yet."

Keywords: anecdote, competitiveness, courage, future, humor, inspirational, joke, losing, motivation, optimistic, poise, positive thinking, quota, sales, sports, winning