Winning At Any Cost Quotes & Sayings

If you're not terrified, you're not going to win. You have to ride right up to the edge of control and not make any mistakes that cost you time. — Charlie Kelly

This flirtation with isolationism in the Republican party is over. It's giving way to a more muscular foreign policy than I've been advocating. But I'm also advocating building up others. Build a small schoolhouse in Afghanistan to help a poor young girl have a say about her children will destroy the ideology more than a bomb. — Rand Paul

Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers. — Eugene Fama

Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage. — D.H. Lawrence

I'm a win-at-all-costs guy. — Ben Roethlisberger

And just when she felt more capable of love than she had ever been, she found herself alone. — Carl Sagan

Let me remind you that you have a two-fold task to perform. With the force of arms and at the cost of your blood you will have to win liberty. Then, when India is free, you will have to organize the permanent army of Free India, whose task it will be to preserve our liberty for all time. We must build up our national defense on such an unshakable foundation that never again in our history shall we lose our freedom. — Subhas Chandra Bose

I don't know if winning at any cost is wrong or not. There are times I've thought that the end justified the means. — George Clooney

[Gambling] is a perfidious passion ... It is bad for one to win, and bad not to win ... it ends by setting your blood on fire, and to increase your chances of winning at any cost, your stakes increase frightfully; the desire of winning gets to be a madness. The soul gets sick; it neither sees nor hears anything. No family ties, position, nor fortune, can stand against this passion. — Matilde Serao

I know you. Perversity is your aphrodisiac. — Wodke Hawkinson

It's the big new bridge," said Serge. "Takes you right across Lake What-the-Fuck." "Is that another real name?" "No," said Serge. "That's what I call it. It's really named Lake Surprise. But surprise is usually something good that provides delight, like winning the lottery or reaching in the back of the fridge and finding an unexpected jar of olives. But this lake got its name because it pissed people off." "How'd it do that?" "Another funny story. When Henry Flagler started the Overseas Railroad down the Keys, he looked for the route with the most land, because bridges over water cost more. So he sent out surveyors, and they began laying tracks south from the mainland of Florida, across some little islands and an isthmus to Key Largo. And I can't believe they built that far before realizing that right in the middle of a big chunk of land was this giant lake, and now they have to build an extra bridge that wasn't in the budget. — Tim Dorsey

Maybe they have nothing else to do in America but to talk about me. — Vladimir Putin

I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that's the best thing I can do in life. — Simon Van Booy

Sadly most films only get exposure if they win an award or were in a festival, which is really difficult because those things cost money! Submitting your film to a festival or campaigning for an Oscar or a Golden Globe is very expensive. Most people don't know that, but all those events require a lot of money. If you have a small independent film, it's very hard to get the attention of people in those circles. — Kate Del Castillo

Successful competitors want to win. Head cases want to win at all costs ... — Nancy Lopez

What will a man gain by winning the whole world, at the cost of his true self? — Jesus

Children have to fly on a separate plane, and people older than 60 have to fly on a separate plane also, because for some reason, after you get a little older, you forget that when you pull on the seat in front of you to get up from your seat that the person sitting in that seat actually feels something. — Jay R. Ferguson

Doing things the right way now is the cost of your future. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

Sometimes the cost of winning for all the right reasons is so great that spirits die and hearts grow cold. — Janet Morris

To become a token woman
whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters
is to become something less than a mansince men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest. — Adrienne Rich

She could understand being so in love it robbed you of your balance, your judgment of good and evil, but she could not make the leap to acting out the passion or the violence as Elissa had. There was nothing worth winning at the cost of your own being, the soul, the integrity that was the core of who you were. The act of doing such a thing made it impossible for you to hold the good, even if you could grasp it for an instant. — Anne Perry

In whatever sport of field of endeavor you are interested, you should do whatever is necessary to compliment your God-given talent with proper mental preparation so as to do "the best you can." The criterion should be to fully exploit your potential rather than to win at any cost. What more could anyone ever ask of you than to be the best you possibly can? — Bob Cousy

We need to tap into new issues. There's a way to resurrect the sound policies of our party, but also to look toward new issues - kitchen-table issues like the rising cost of education. I think that's a winning issue for Republicans. — Andrea Tantaros

Don't push away that chance if you're one of the lucky ones who find that partner. And remember, you can always change a job. I hear it's much harder to switch out a husband. — Mika Brzezinski

I have bad feet and I have weak ankles. — Katherine Heigl

Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. — Hermann Hesse

Our only concern should be to keep the fight [for souls] aggressive and to win victory regardless of cost or sacrifice. — Samuel Marinus Zwemer

We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that. — Geoffrey Wolff

To all pimps and whores a merry syphilis and a happy gonorrhea. — Graham Greene

There are times when our victories have a cost that we did not foresee, when winning brings us loss. — Susanna Kearsley