85 Inspirational Winning Quotes
Jan. 7, 2025, 8:45 a.m.
In the journey of life, we often seek inspiration and motivation to propel us forward, especially when the going gets tough. Whether you're striving to achieve personal goals, aiming for professional success, or simply wanting to start each day on a positive note, a powerful quote can serve as a beacon of hope and encouragement. With words that have the ability to uplift spirits and ignite determination, inspirational quotes offer profound insights that resonate universally. This collection of 85 Inspirational Winning Quotes is meticulously curated to bring clarity, infuse energy, and inspire action. Dive into these words of wisdom and let them be the guiding light to your path of victory.
1. “One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.” - Oscar Wilde
2. “We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up.” - Ray Bradbury
3. “This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.” - Winston S. Churchill
4. “Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is.” - Vince Lombardi
5. “I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.” - Mark Messier
6. “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
7. “Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.” - Dianne Feinstein
8. “Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.” - Bryce Courtenay
9. “You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.” - Jason Mraz
10. “Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!” - Karl Lagerfeld
11. “Wars are won in the will.” - Robert Fanney
12. “No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.” - Robert W. Service
13. “There is nothing in this life that can destroy you but yourself. Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can't just fall apart and die. You have to fight back. If you don't, you're the one who loses in the end. But if you do keep going and fight back, you win.” - Alexandra Monir
14. “Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't..” - Dr. Seuss
15. “Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]
16. “Winning isn’t everything; it’s just the ONLY thing.” - Henry Sanders
17. “If you're confused about what to do,it's a sign that your enemy is winning.” - Toba Beta
18. “I GOT TIGAR BLOOD” - Charlie Sheen
19. “I've wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn't change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I still hate losing--I'm just more gracious about it. I'm also aware that setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.” - Dara Torres
20. “No terreno do dinheiro vence sempre quem tem mais dinheiro” - José Maria Eça de Queirós
21. “Hope?” he says. “There is always hope, John. New developments have yet to present themselves. Not all the information is in. No. Don’t give up hope just yet. It’s the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.” - Pittacus Lore
22. “Life is a game, you can't afford to lose.” - Tracy Bleers
23. “Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers. Your dream is the key to your future. The Bible says that, "without a vision (dream), a people perish." You need a dream, if you're going to succeed in anything you do.” - Mark Gorman
24. “Leaders live by choice, not by accident.” - Mark Gorman
25. “quote from Chase the Moon- Some people are just downright wicked, and sometimes evil wins - but not always.” - Lynn Hubbard
26. “Not much in the world ends up being the same as it started out, unless of course it had a very short life cycle.” - Lorii Myers
27. “If you lose your temper, you lose!” - Richard Diaz
28. “Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?” - Terry Pratchett
29. “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 together -And we're gonna win -” - Patrick Ness
30. “And what exactly do you think this proves?" he spits. "You've got power, but you don't know what to do with it." VIOLA "Looks like I'm doing fine," I say.” - Patrick Ness
31. “The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the essence of it.” - Vince Lombardi
32. “They expected to lose. And therefore, they lost. [..] People who start thinking deep dark thoughts in the middle of a war start expecting to lose.” - Michael Scott
33. “Some lean back. But those who lean forward are poised to cross the finish-line, first!” - T.F. Hodge
34. “No one can take the shot for you.” - Lorii Myers
35. “Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.” - Lorii Myers
36. “Games are lost and won in your mind as much as they are on the field.” - Carl Deuker
37. “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
38. “Luck is not as random as you think.Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.” - Vera Nazarian
39. “Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.” - Albert Payson Terhune
40. “Champions are built on a thousand invisible mornings.” - Kirk Cousins
41. “Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.” - Criss Jami
42. “Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.” - Criss Jami
43. “To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.” - Criss Jami
44. “Obstacles are challenges for winners and excuses for losers” - M.E. Kerr
45. “Play to win because almost doesn't cut it.” - Ana Monnar
46. “...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
47. “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
48. “It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.” - E.B. White
49. “In this life, you have winners and losers. the more you win, the higher you go.” - Daniel Nayeri
50. “Never do a single thing in the anticipation to prove something to someone who has hurt you. If someone has hurt or offended you (whoever that person may be), never perform anything or strive for anything in your life with the mind of proving something to that someone/ to those people. May nothing that you do be done with any thought of them in mind. There is nothing that needs to be proven.” - C. JoyBell C.
51. “Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries” - Howard Tayler
52. “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
53. “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
54. “You rarely win, but sometimes you do.” - Harper Lee
55. “If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.” - Criss Jami
56. “Perfection of effort is not required, by the way. It is the consistency of attempting to work these tools that brings the progress. It’s like anything else. If I want to tone muscle, lifting a ten-pound weight a few times every day will move me toward my goal much quicker than hoisting a fifty-pound barbell once a week. Yes, it really is true: “Slow and steady wins the race.” Just try a little, every day. You’ll see.” - Holly Mosier
57. “I'd seen glimpses of a different me. It was a different me because in those increments of time I thought I actually became a winner.The truth, however, is painful.It was a truth that told me with a scratching internal brutality that I was me, and that winning wan't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind. In a way, I had to scavenge for moments of alrightness.” - Markus Zusak
58. “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
59. “Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.” - Max Mckeown
60. “Deal with your wins and losses alike. With tequila, lemon and a pinch of salt.” - Saleem Sharma
61. “I hate to lose more than I love to win.” - Jimmy Connors
62. “The trick, of course, is to lose one day and come back to win the next. But that is possible only when we draw healthy pleasure and confidence from our creative processes.” - John H. Lienhard
63. “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
64. “Victories are won while on your knees! Keep praying for those who rise up against you. Fear not. The Lord has rectified the problem. Prayer is POWERFUL!!” - Anita R. Sneed-Carter
65. “If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.” - David Mitchell
66. “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
67. “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
68. “There are no winners in real games.” - Dejan Stojanovic
69. “The game itself is bigger than the winning.” - Dejan Stojanovic
70. “When God plays chess, you will notice that he never has to move a single piece...in order to win.” - Lionel Suggs
71. “Neither alive nor dead; No one lets up, No one wins.” - Dejan Stojanovic
72. “Putting down the power right from the whistle would be ugly and brutal, but it would get the job done. He wanted to tell her that, but this was the thing with coaching: you had to step back at exactly the moment you ached to step forward.” - Chris Cleave
73. “Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?” - Patrick Rothfuss
74. “You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman
75. “Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.” - Max Mckeown
76. “Winning is a science, educate yourself to win .” - Sandeep Kakkar
77. “More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.” - Orrin Woodward
78. “Some days making it to the end of the day is quite the victory. -- Bea” - Jennifer Brown
79. “I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.” - Criss Jami
80. “Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.” - Shannon L. Alder
81. “You’ve got to be sure of yourself beforeYou can ever win a prize.” - Napoleon Hill
82. “Self belief, Wise choice and Karma are the three main ingredients of Winners.” - Sandeep Kakkar
83. “Never a horse that can’t be rode and never a rider that can’t be throwed. (I’ll pass this off as my own, but I really stole it from my father, a cowboy and rodeo rider in his younger years.)” - Earle Gray
84. “You will never win if you never begin.” - Helen Rowland
85. “It’s not the win that matters so much as recognizing and respecting its value.” - Lorii Myers
