Top 200 Winning Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Everyone Has A Will To Win But Very Few Have The Will To Prepare To Win.”

— Vince Lombardi

2. “You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”

— John C. Maxwell

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3. “You will win if you don’t quit.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Coaching Quotes

4. “Trust me I never lose. Either I win or learn from it.”

— Tupac Shakur

5. “To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

Also featured in: Warrior Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Struggle Quotes

6. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Success, Optimistic Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Boldness Quotes

7. “The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

Also featured in: Quotes About Money

8. “The person that works the hardest wins.”

— Will Smith

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Common Sense Quotes

9. “I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.”

— Ayrton Senna

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Performance Quotes

10. “You can’t win unless you first begin. So start now.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Goal Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

11. “Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

12. “Don’t just accept whatever comes your way in life. You were born to win; you were born for greatness; you were created to be a champion in life.”

— Joel Osteen

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success

13. “Wanting to win isn’t enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes

14. “When you move your focus from competition to contribution life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people, just win their hearts.”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Moving Quotes

15. “I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.”

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Real Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes

16. “The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Warrior Quotes, Fighting Quotes

17. “Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Success Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Coaching Quotes

18. “I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.”

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Competition Quotes, Sports Quotes

19. “People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.”

— Kobe Bryant

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Competition Quotes, Sports Quotes

20. “Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.”

— Kobe Bryant

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Victory Quotes, Competition Quotes

21. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Goal Quotes, Athlete Quotes

22. “I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Empowering Quotes

23. “I am the greatest.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Confidence Quotes, Personality Quotes

24. “You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Positive Quotes, Inspirational Quotes

25. “Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Success Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Empowering Quotes

26. “Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Goal Quotes

27. “Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Goal Quotes, Action Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes

28. “Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.”

— Denis Waitley

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Motivational Quotes for Success, Excellence Quotes

29. “Some of you love sleep more than you love success. If you want to be successful, you gotta be willing to give up sleep. If you go to sleep, you might miss the opportunity to be successful.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Action Quotes, Hustle Quotes

30. “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Military Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Peace Quotes

31. “Born to lose. Live to win.”

— Lemmy Kilmister

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Short Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Crazy Quotes

32. “Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Victory Quotes, Competition Quotes

33. “A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.”

— Larry Bird

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes

34. “We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won’t ever be perfect – but in the process we will achieve greatness.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Coaching Quotes, Dedication Quotes

35. “If you can accept losing, you can’t win.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Coaching Quotes

36. “Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins.”

— Napoleon Hill

37. “If you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it, to work day and night for it, to give up your time, your peace and your sleep for it If all that you dream and scheme is about it and life seems useless and worthless without it; If you gladly sweat for, fret for and plan for it and lose all your terror of the opposition for it; If you simply go after that thing that you want with all of your capacity, strength and sagacity, faith, hope and confidence and stern for tenacity; If neither cold or poverty, famish or gout, sickness or pain of body and brain can keep you away from the thing that you want; If dogged and grim you be size and beget it, with the help of GOD you will get it.”

— Berton Braley

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Goal Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes

38. “You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Military Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Struggle Quotes

39. “Monday, I grind. Tuesday, I grind. Wednesday, I grind. Thursday, I grind. Friday, I grind. Saturday, I grind. Sunday, I grind. And, that’s why I’m here today.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Focus Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Goal Quotes, Hard Work Quotes

40. “Always work hard, never give up, and fight until the end because it’s never really over until the whistle blows.”

— Alex Morgan

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Athlete Quotes

41. “I’ve never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Performance Quotes, Ambition Quotes

42. “What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Performance Quotes, Fighting Quotes

43. “Whatever it takes to win.”

— Pat Riley

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes, Basketball Quotes, Boss Quotes

44. “If you don’t play to win don’t play at all.”

— Tom Brady

Also featured in: Excellence Quotes, Competition Quotes, Football Quotes

45. “You carry on no matter what the obstacles are. You simply refuse to give up – and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes, Coaching Quotes

46. “I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.”

— Kobe Bryant

Also featured in: Dedication Quotes, Competition Quotes, Sports Quotes

47. “There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Fitness Quotes

48. “I’m sure that I’m a winner. I’m sure that I win more than I lose.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

Also featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Ego Quotes

49. “I’m going to show you how great I am!”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Action Quotes

50. “Success is never on discount. Greatness is never on sale. Greatness is never half off. It’s all or nothing. It’s all day, every day. Greatness is never on discount.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Action Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Motivational Work Quotes