Losing Quotes

You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation.

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.

Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.

History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.

I always try to find the positives in losing a match but it's not always easy.

Losing is like smoking. It's habit forming.

The losing side is full of suspicion.

There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.

It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much.

Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a daily basis until the Business Checking Freedom Act becomes law.

We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.

I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.

Once you start losing reality, when you start losing reality with yourself, sometimes people just get dizzy.

It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.

Progress is always an exchange. We gain something, we give something else up. I'm interested in looking at some of what we are losing.

Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility.

There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.

If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.

I didn't want to whisper and giggle about [puberty] anymore. I felt incredibly self-conscious. I felt like I was losing myself, and I was losing who I was. And that really scared me.

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

I climbed on the rowing ergometer, and started to pull - losing myself in the rhythm of sweat and pain.

Money alone isn't enough to bring happiness... happiness is when you're actually truly ok with losing everything you have.

Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.

Don't lose yourself just because you found somebody.

With technology expanding at this ridiculous pace, bit by bit we're losing our humanity and our ability to connect with each other without having electronic media in the middle.

His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived.

Whoever said "It's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game" is full of it! Winning makes all the difference in the world. Winning is fun. Losing is not. Losing sucks.

I don't think you're going to be a success in anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.

I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats.

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

Losing a position is aggravating, whereas losing your nerve is devastating.

A losing trader can do little to transform himself into a winning trader. A losing trader is not going to want to transform himself. That's the kind of thing winning traders do.

I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.

In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.

I wouldn't accept losing as a team, wouldn't accept losing as my team. It's like a war every practice. I think it helped us a lot.

In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square

Gone, but not forgotten.

When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.

The Russian story's all an excuse for the Democrats losing. That's a total witch hunt, the whole Russia story. It's a hoax. It's a hoax. We had no collusion with Russia. We never dealt with Russia.

Guys who might not be superstars but because of their hustle, because of the little things they do, these are the guys who can really mean the difference between winning and losing.

We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.

Actually, my worst nightmare is losing my best friend, as I imagine most people's are.