#winners

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#confided #experience #getting #hasn #heads

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#concentrate #constantly #done #hand #i

My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#both #children #coffee #cut #degrees

See, winners embrace hard work. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#hard #hard work #see #winners #work

A person either hates losing enough to change or he hates changing enough to lose. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#change

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose. ↗

— John le Carre

#confidence #greatest #her #history #i

I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them. ↗

— Marcel Dionne

#business #done #game #i #same

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. ↗

— Ted Turner

#never #never quit #quit #quitters #win

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#future #in the past #learn #live #losers

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#break #commitments #keep #losers #make