Losing Quotes

The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet.

There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.

I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.

Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived... The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Winning often teaches you about losing and losing often teaches you about winning and a lot of things also happen by luck and you have to be at the right place at the right time.

If losing a fight is the worst thing that's ever happened to you in your life, you're doing pretty good.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

I never think about losing.

Every endeavour pursued with passion produces a successful outcome, regardless of the result. For it is not about winning or losing – rather, the effort put forth in producing the outcome.

Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt on 16. Almost got that match. We ended up losing, but we almost won it, too.

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

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.

To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.

You can't embrace your whole life if you're shut down. I found out that I can't just run away and shut down. I'm losing the rest of my life doing that.

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

What people tend to forget is the journey that I had getting to Formula One. There were plenty of years where I had to learn about losing and having bad races.

Really, what [sea] ice does is it acts like a garden. … Losing that ice is like losing the soil in a garden.

After losing LaRoche, I have to step up a little bit. I have to do what I need to do.

One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.

I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.

It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America.'

Nate Robinson has a lot of jumping ability, but I don't see Josh losing.

Win or lose, everybody gets what they want out of the market. Some people seem to like to lose, so they win by losing money.

Sometimes I truly fear that I am losing my mind. And if I did it it would be like flying blind.

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject.

The whole secret to winning and losing in the stock market is to lose the least amount possible when you're not right.

For some moments in life there are no words.

Struggle and survival, losing and winning, doesn't matter. It's entering the race that counts. You enter, you can win, you can lose .... but it's all about entering the race.

If you don't care about losing, you will focus on technique.

A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group - that's teamwork.

Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.

I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin.

Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

The cheerful loser is the winner.

To my mind losing is always better than never trying, because you can never tell what may happen.

Losing is inevitable, make sure you have the tools in your toolbox to deal with it.

Each of us is born with a built-in GPS, God's Positioning System, a sophisticated navigational package that divinely aligns us with people and events and keeps us from losing our way.

First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great

I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

When Marx got into a difficult position he would get angry and losing a game would cause him to fly into a rage.

You can't tell how much spirit a team has until it starts losing.

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.

We are too quickly losing important landscapes in this country to development - and I worry that if we do not act to protect them now, future generations will grow up in a profoundly different world.

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.

Sometimes you win by losing.