Quotes by category:Losing

You know the sting of losing or not getting something you badly want. When that happens show what you are made of.

losing made want

Trophies separate the winners from losers, and life is about winning and losing. Go into business and you see. You're competing every day.

trophies losing winning

I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.

understanding losing self

In politics, when you`re explaining, you`re losing.

explaining losing

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best. by Jim Palmer

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

given losing sports

[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

fusion risk losing

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

losing life-is reason

...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes sc... by Joao Magueijo

...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing.

curiosity losing science

There's nothing wrong with losing your temper for the right reaso... by Jock Stein

There's nothing wrong with losing your temper for the right reasons.

temper losing reason

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

gambling taken losing

There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing the natural thoughts about self in the thought of One higher than himself, to whose guidance he can commit himself and all men.

John Campbell Shairp

losing self men

Beware of losing what isn't in your head. by John Cage

Beware of losing what isn't in your head.

losing

May be you had to come close to losing something before you could... by Jodi Picoult

May be you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.

losing may remember

Got to keep losing horses," he said drowsily. "Bad habit. by John Flanagan

Got to keep losing horses," he said drowsily. "Bad habit.

horse habit losing

Draw with the brush. Carve the form. Don't be carried away by subtleties of modeling and nice pigmentation at the expense of losing the form.

John French Sloan

form nice losing

I certainly went into losing my virginity terrified. Going on stage, I could only have imagined the worst possible outcomes. And then it went fine.

stage outcomes losing

When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.

abundance losing forever

The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes. by John Green

The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.

eye losing sun

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losin... by John Podhoretz

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

thumbs very-good losing

Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.

woe losing earth