Quotes with losing

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  • Elizabeth Bishop The art of losing isn't hard to masters; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
    Elizabeth Bishop
    American poet and short-story writer (1911 - 1979)
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  • Carl Lewis The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Raoul Vaneigem The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • O. J. Simpson The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Antoine Rivarol The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Adam Smith The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Aldous Huxley The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bernhard Langer There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.
    Bernhard Langer
    German professional golfer (1957 - )
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  • Martin Luther King There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth losing a job for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Alan Cranston There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they're going to exist. But they're losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.
    Alan Cranston
    American politician and journalist (1914 - 2000)
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  • Bob Hayes There's a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I'm not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time.
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  • Barry Switzer 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.
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  • Rebecca West This is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but a sure way of losing it.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Samuel Butler 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.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Ben Horowitz To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 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.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Cass Sunstein Trump is more performance artist than zealot. But he's finding enemies everywhere, whether they are judges of Mexican ancestry, parents of those killed in war, the current president, or children of immigrants. Whether or not he has a sense of decency, he is in grave danger of losing it.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Bill Viola 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.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Joseph Roux We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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