Losing Quotes
There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.
Loggers losing their jobs because of Spotted Owl legislation is, in my eyes, no different than people being out of work after the furnaces of Dachau shut down.
He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
I really believe in setting goals, no matter what it is: whether it's losing five pounds or making the world championship team.
I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.
For every winner, there's a loser. And that person didn't really need to lose. They just didn't understand the game plan.
The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.
Why do they call it losing your virginity, anyway? It's Not Like I don't know where I left it." "You'd be surprised how many people don't.
I was trying to put myself in the situation of someone that was going through major loss. Losing someone to death or sickness, and having to go through life on your own afterwords.
Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that.
It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.
As long as you are in the relative worlds, you should be realistic and know there is winning and losing here.
We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.
People always are encouraging about a terrible loss, so that sometimes the loser would like to strangle them.
I had a slightly inferior endgame that probably should have been drawn, but Kortchnoi kept torturing me with little threats until finally, exhausted and exasperated, I made a losing mistake.
At a time when we are losing manufacturing jobs in this country, we should be doing everything we can to help our manufacturers stay competitive. They are the backbone of our economy.
Sure, finishing last has negative connotations. But finishing second-to-last or last is still losing.
Live as a credible witness. If our actions don't line up with the message we're proclaiming, we risk losing our credibility.
After losing everything, I went on a quest to find out how money really works, how I could get control of it, and how I could have confidence in handling it.
When you're playing it as a business... your livelihood depends on winning and losing and so some- times sportsmanship is lost, as in the process of billion dollar companies.
No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.
Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.
I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.
You can't ever totally know what's inside of someone else, or see the kind of will someone like Magic has. You have to rely on your instincts to find people who hate losing and know how to win.
When you accept that you may fail, you can accomplish anything. Fear can be so debilitating. Every day I'm faced with difficult decisions, but losing the fear helps me make the right choices.
Losing still hurts, but that's good. When it stops hurting, that's when I stop playing.
You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.
Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.
A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing.
It's okay not to be okay... Sometimes it's hard, to follow your heart but tears don't mean you're losing, everybody's bruising, there's nothing wrong with who you are.
When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.
There's a lot of fear-mongering about "losing control" of your brand online, when, in fact, you've got control over as much as you always have: how you present your business and how you act.
One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.
I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
I don't worry about losing my looks. It's finding them on someone else that worries me.