Quotes with losing

  • A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
  • Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but there's a feeling that life is interconnected, that there's life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.
  • Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.
  • Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
  • I loved when Bush came out and said, We are losing the war against drugs. You know what that implies? There's a war being fought, and the people on drugs are winning it.
  • They had no game plan for losing.... Because when you can't win a game, you need to run the clock, don't let it stop, don't throw passes incomplete... get the game over with, get on the bus and go home.
  • Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.
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  • Robert Frost Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Winston Churchill Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Henry David Thoreau This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Carlos Ghosn Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Max Gunther If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope.
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  • Confucius Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Billie Jean King A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • George Borrow A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
    George Borrow
    English writer of novels and travel books (1803 - 1881)
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  • Richard Nixon A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Cam Newton A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • Barbara Cartland After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Bill Goldberg After you ride a roller coaster that's been going up for a year and a half, and you reach the pinnacle and then dive straight down with no gradual decline, it's a little disorienting. I didn't know how to take losing.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Scott Alexander All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
    Scott Alexander
    American professional baseball pitcher (1989 - )
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  • George Eliot Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Kin Hubbard Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • C. J. Mahaney Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
    C. J. Mahaney
    American Christian minister (1953 - )
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  • Arthur Ashe Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
    Arthur Ashe
    Robert Ashe Jr (1943 - 1993)
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  • Ben Marcus Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • Jane Porter Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
    Jane Porter
    English writer (1776 - 1850)
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  • Aaron Carter Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.
    Aaron Carter
    American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor (1987 - )
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