The determination to win is the better part of winning.


Daisaku Ikeda

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With love and patience, nothing is impossible. -Daisaku Ikeda.
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SUSANE COLASANTI
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CALVIN BAISLEY
The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK
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May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
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Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
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Once we started winning, we started believing we could win and the work ethic has gotten better.
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winn...
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Losing is a part of winning.
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The secret of my success is my hairspray.
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Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
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Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.
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Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.
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Winning is not always the barometer of getting better.
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She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
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Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
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The most important thing about winning is how you win, not what you win.
JIM GENOVESE
Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
E. O. WILSON
Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
VINCE LOMBARDI
Winning is not everything but wanting to win is.
VINCENT THOMAS
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
VINCE LOMBARDI
Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is.
VINCE LOMBARDI JR.
Winning the war will prove to be the easy part. Winning the peace and paying for the peace will be t...
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Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Faith, persistence, and determination are always a win- win combination.
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