Win

Famous quotes containing the word win:

    The next moment he was “showing off” with all his might—cuffing boys, pulling hair, making faces—in a word, using every art that seemed likely to fascinate a girl and win her applause.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    Pious Selinda goes to prayers,
    If I but ask the favour;
    And yet the tender fool’s in tears,
    When she believes I’ll leave her.

    Would I were free from this restraint,
    Or else had hopes to win her;
    Would she would make of me a saint,
    Or I of her a sinner.
    William Congreve (1670–1729)

    If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what you will, is the great high-road to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)