Losing Quotes

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

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.

An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins.

He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.

Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself? I reach for Stargirl and she's gone. I'm not me anymore.

To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself.

Success is getting to a point where you'd be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over.

I’m lucky that I’m afraid of losing something

Chaos is always losing, but never defeated

I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn't about winning or losing. It's about process, keeping it going.

I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.

Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

I don't feel threatened. You can live your life being scared of losing someone and, at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you and that's it.

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.

A year ago, you wanted to give up because we were losing, and now, you want to give up because we're winning.

we should be careful not to let machinery swamp life. That we should be sure, when we are confronted with a fresh mechanical contrivance, that we are not losing more than we gain by adopting it.

If I have given my all and still do not win, I haven't lost. Others might remember winning or losing; I remember the journey.

What we're losing culturally the fastest, aside from natural resources and oil and the idea of democracy and social justice, is the ability to concentrate.

I'm grateful for a lot of things. One is not being a drunk wreck. Or losing all four limbs in some ridiculous East Village bus accident that I was so destined for.

Her feelings she hides Her dreams she can't find She's losing her mind She's falling behind She can't find her place She's losing her faith She's falling from grace She's all over the place

I don't worry about losing all my fans. Whatever true fans you've got will stick by you, so that's nothing to worry about

I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I'll go there.

I just don't want to get used to feeling this feeling, you know, losing basketball games.

I’m all mixed up inside. It’s like—I don’t know—like an ignition of some kind. one minute, I’m fine, and the next I’m losing it.

Startups should be, if you graph their financial performance, it should be what's called a J curve. You start out at zero, you're not making any money, you're not losing any money.

If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.

You can't lose yourself.

Winning an argument is losing it as it makes the loser feel bad.

Losing is like my ex-wife... it's a b****, and it takes a bigger man than me to live with it.

We're losing all our jobs. Look at Indiana. One of the reasons I won Indiana is because Carrier just announced they are leaving for Mexico.

I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.

It's no fun losing a tooth or getting your face whacked by a stick.

It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism.

Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.

I don't like losing. I like winning. I don't like to lose beautiful matches. I like to win ugly ones.

A good loser is all right, but it isn't so much fun to beat him.

If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

I think that sometimes the difference between winning and losing, success and failure, is this gray line between will, passion and self-belief that says, 'I'm going to do this'.

The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality.

In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.

You start losing a client the moment you get it.

I learned to win by learning to lose- that means not being afraid of losing.

So you want to be married, oh baby, trying to put me on a chain, ain't that some shame? You must be losing your weak little mind.

That gut-wrenching feeling of defeat I can still feel today. Losing and God are the two things that I fear. I fear no man