Losing Quotes

How competitive can you be without losing your discipline?

Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.

A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.

I mean, I love winning, but losing is a much more intense feeling.

I love competing. I am so competitive. I definitely need to win because I hate losing. I am the type who if I know I will lose I won't compete.

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

Losing composure is pointless.

To find yourself, you must first lose yourself

I don't play against a particular team. I play against the idea of losing

I find myself only by losing myself.

Losing time is harder than death, as losing time keeps you away from Allah and the Hereafter, while death keeps you away from the worldly life and people.

All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought

A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them

Even if you don't win you learn. So there's no losing. You win the fight or you learn.

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

Losing doesn't make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.

Children are the true believers, and some of us are lucky enough to make the transition to adulthoood without ever losing the ability to see through young eyes.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Losing my mind sounds so pessimistic. I prefer the term winning my insanity.

Success comes from continuing to strive, fail and learn without losing enthusiasm.

The drop grows happy by losing itself in the river.

No one ever lost out by excessive devotion to Christ.

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.

The pain of preparation is nothing like the pain of losing.

When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the government bosom.

Patience is never more important than when you are at the edge of losing it.

The most important thing in my life is Christ. He’s more important to me than winning or losing or whether I’m playing or not. Everything else is just a bonus.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.

By the miracle of teaching, I can give you some of my ability, without losing any of it myself.

One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

Losing a game is not a big deal, except you've got to make sure that you move on and get the next one.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

The smartest side to take in a bidding war is the losing side.

Play on, when you're losing the game. Play on, cuz you're going to make mistakes. It's always worth the sacrifice, even when you think you're wrong.

Losing is not in my vocabulary.

Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game

Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match

Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

There's one thing I don't ever think about: losing ... Instead, I think about how I'm going to win, and how I can do it the quickest way.

The road that leads to heaven is risky, lonely, and costly in this world, and few are willing to pay the price. Following Jesus involves losing your life-and finding new life in him.