Winning and Losing

Hanging on, persevering, WINNING
Letting go, giving up easily, LOSING

Accepting responsibility for your actions, WINNING
Always having an excuse for your actions, LOSING

Taking the initiative, WINNING
Waiting to be told what to do, LOSING

Knowing what you want and setting goals to achieve it, WINNING
Wishing for things, but taking no action, LOSING

Seeing the big picture, and setting your goals accordingly, WINNING
Seeing only where you are today, LOSING

Food for Thought on Winning:

If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win. John W. Holt, Jr

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

Winning isn't always finishing first. Sometimes winning is just finishing. Manuel Diotte

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

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. Arthur Ashe

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

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. Wilma Rudolph

The determination to win is the better part of winning. Daisaku Ikeda

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character. John Wooden

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning. Richard Bach

Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything. Vince Lombardi

If they did not set personal achievement goals for themselves, their chances of winning a gold medal, or a league title, would be slim. What Is A Goal

Winning is nice if you don't lose your integrity in the process. Arnold Horshak

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. Goethe

Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do. Albert Gray