win quotes

“Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.”

— Coco Chanel

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite! ”

“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.”

“Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.”

“Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.”

— Aldous Huxley

“The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency”

“Slow but steady wins the race. ”

“Plodding wins the race.”

“The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.”

“All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.”

“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance. ”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“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

“I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“A man growing old becomes a child again.”

“I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.”

“Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.”

“I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.”

“No one longs to live more than someone growing old. ”

“Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.”

“You win the victory when you yield to friends.”

“Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.”

— Victor Hugo

“To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.”

— Victor Hugo

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