Losing Quotes

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.

Losing is a bad feeling. I've never been on an undefeated team throughout high school, so I tasted defeat before. I've been taught to handle it graciously.

I hate losing in training, I'm always arguing, having a go at everybody. I take my job very seriously.'

Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something.

Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.

When you THROW DIRT at people, you're not doing a thing but LOSING GROUND.

If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.

There's only winning and losing, and in our society, as in all societies, there's the person that's doing the winning, or there's the person that's facilitating the winning.

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.

Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.

I don't play basketball as good as I used to and I hate losing, so I'd rather not be seen in public until I make sure my A game is up.

If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.

It's much simpler to be tortured on camera or to be filmed losing your mind. Whereas a script that has characters who are honest, witty and genuine is often much harder to act.

I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.

The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting.

All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.

I love competition and really going for it and doing my best, but losing isn't really upsetting to me. I feel like if I do lose, the other person really deserved it.

Even the klan revamped their image by losing the hoods and changing their name to the Tea Party.

The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.

You do not stop losing power by refusing to recognize your fear, by anesthetizing yourself to what you feel. The road to authentic power is always through what you feel through your heart.

It is very important not to think about losing.

I hate losing more than I like winning

If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.

I suddenly said, 'I'm sick of losing'. After that, I trained hard and I never lost there again.

I have had the privilege of losing everything.

If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.

Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people's physical fitness and mental prowess.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are afraid of losing their incomes.

What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game

Humility is losing yourself in the doing of serving.

[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

I'm most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are.

It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.

My biggest fear isn't crashing this bike at 85mph and losing my skin - it's sitting in a chair at 90 and thinking 'I wish I'd done more'

Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win.

The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.

Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.

Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.

It's so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year.

You either hate losing enough to change, or you hate changing enough to lose.