Loss Quotes

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

Our losses... have reached and intolerable level.

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die-it's a major offence.

If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.

Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great return such as a forced win.

While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.

You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Mixed Martial Arts is a dangerous practice that could result in injuries and loss of life.

Every minute that we lose will cost us great losses later that we will not be able to afford.

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

When I play, I'm boiling inside. I just try not to show it because it's a lack of composure, and if you give in to your emotions after one loss, you're liable to have three or four in a row.

There are different wells within your heart. Some fill with each good rain, Others are far too deep for that.

Princes have big ears which hear far and near.

Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a little of both.

Floods are 'acts of God,' but flood losses are largely acts of man.

Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.

Any growth requires a temporary loss of security.

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.

The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?

Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

There is no greater disease than the loss of hope.

There are memories that time can't erase, Clarissa. Ask your friend, Magnus Bane, if you don't believe me. Forever does not make loss forgettable. Only bearable.

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.

Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch.

For every loss, there is a hidden gain. And for every gain, there is a hidden loss.

The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

I've always believed happiness is overrated, you know? It’s those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it’s a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of self-control is never a source of strength in political affairs.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

We're man enough to step in there and fight our hearts out and you have to be man enough to deal with a loss.

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

Instead of hoping he must fear and instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit.

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

The root of oppression is the loss of memory.

When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been, it’s best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.

Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.

Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable, Brother Zachariah to Clary Fray

Everyone surrounding you has gone through similar things. The search for love or the desire to have a family or the loss of a child.