Loss Quotes

Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.

Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank.

There is no growth without change, no change without fear or loss and no loss without pain.

The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity.

The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it.

It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.

In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.

Global demand for dollars has supplanted demand for manufactured goods and services, resulting in multilateral trade deficits and loss of jobs at home.

The greatest losses are unknown and unknowable.

And I thought my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.

It's not the victories that count to me. It's the quality of how you deliver your losses and the quality of how you deliver your victories.

Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

Distance is a good teacher. You only fully understand that which you have lost.

How shall the heart be reconciled / To its feast of losses?

I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

I have nothing to lose. My personal casualty means nothing.

A lot of songs are inspiration and help people through pain, grief and loss.

The fact of the matter is, this is a very dynamic economy we have, and in this dynamic economy, you have a lot of job gains, but you also have job loss.

During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.

I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of control, and I like to have that kind of control.

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Our agricultural economy in the Hudson Valley continues to face historically low prices and producer income, as well as losses due to weather and other disasters.

When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.

Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding catastrophic losses in the key battles.

People always are encouraging about a terrible loss, so that sometimes the loser would like to strangle them.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.

The English are worried about the Euro being brought in because of loss of national identity and rising prices. In Scotland, people are just worried in case they have to close Poundstretcher.

I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: “The French are predictably unpredictable.

What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

For most celebrities, the biggest meal of the day is toothpaste (they use reduced-fat Crest).

It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.

A loss is not a failure until you make an excuse.

Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.

That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!

To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?

The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it.

Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.

Accept a loss as a learning experience, and never point fingers at your teammates

The pain of yesterday is the strength of today.

We all take losses and it's about getting up and coming back.

I much condole with you on your late loss... pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again.