There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Napoleon Hill

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin Franklin

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

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
Muhammad Ali

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mohandas Gandhi

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
Mohandas Gandhi

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius 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

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Theodore Roosevelt

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

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
Lou Holtz

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

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun Tzu

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
Sun Tzu

Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.
Mike Ditka

People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.
Mike Ditka

I'm not going to make it the all - everything. Our (the Saints) goal is to get better, make the playoffs and win the Super Bowl, but I'm not gonna anguish over it like I have in the past.
Mike Ditka

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.
Mike Ditka

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
Ted Turner