Losing Quotes - Page 8

• It's important to know that at the end of the day it's not the medals you remember. What you remember is the process -- what you learn about yourself by challenging yourself, the experiences you share with other people, the honesty the training demands -- those are things nobody can take away from you whether you finish twelfth or you're an Olympic Champion.

  Silken Laumann

  Softball, Sports, Running

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• You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone - profusely. But don't apologize for being who you are.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Being Yourself, Hurt, Mistake

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• The ultimate meditation is: surrender to reality.
  The more you fight, the more you are in conflict with it, the more you will be a loser.
  In deep surrender, the ego disappears.
  And when the ego is not there, for the first time you become aware of that which has always been there.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Fighting, Reality

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• A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.

  Lester Thurow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Sometimes we have to lose our way to find out what we really want, for we often ignore our needs until we are lost.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Baseball, African American

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• When raindrops hit the tin roof it's crazy. That's a metaphor, did I lose you baby?

  Drake

  Life, Relationship, Break Up

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• Winning means being unafraid to lose.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Inspiring, Happiness, Success

  Fran Tarkenton, Tad Tuleja (1986). “How to motivate people: the team strategy for success”, Harpercollins

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• If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Sad, Death, Children

  "Elizabeth Edwards: In Her Own Words" by Sarah Netter, abcnews.go.com. December 7, 2010.

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• Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

  David Riesman

  Freedom, Men, Class

  David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, Reuel Denney (2001). “The Lonely Crowd”, p.307, Yale University Press

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• Christ is to be answerable for all those that are given to Him, at the last day, and therefore we need not doubt but that He will certainly employ all the power of His Godhead to secure and save all those that He must be accountable for. Christ's charge and care of these that are given to Him, extends even to the very day of their resurrection, that He may not so much as lose their dust, but gather it together again, and raise it up in glory to be a proof of His fidelity; for, saith He, "I shall lose nothing, but raise it up again at the last day."

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Jesus, Caring

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• This must be how the guys in Space Jam felt when MJ gave them their powers back through that old basketball.

  Blake Griffin

  Basketball, Sports, Winning

  Twitter post from Nov 26, 2011

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  There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

  Washington Irving

  Strength, Sad, Sympathy

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• Every struggle, whether won or lost, strengthens us for the next to come. It is not good for people to have an easy life. They become weak and inefficient when they cease to struggle. Some need a series of defeats before developing the strength and courage to win a victory.

  Victorio

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.

  Edward Wilmot Blyden

  Being Yourself, Character, Giving

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• If you fight you won't always win. But if you don't fight you will always lose

  Bob Crow

  Struggle, Fighting, Winning

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• You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Positive Thinking, Winning, Get Better

  FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Apr 17, 2013

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• A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. That's how awful the loss is.

  Jay Neugeboren

  Children, Husband, Losing A Loved One

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• Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Fighting, Acceptance, Reality

  "Friends Remember Elizabeth Edwards; Muppets & Healthy Eating", www.cnn.com. December 8, 2010.

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• It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.

  Tove Jansson

  Life, Simple, Curiosity

  Tove Jansson (2007). “Fair Play: A Novel”, Sort of

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• Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Failure, Loss

  FaceBook post by Andre Agassi from Feb 25, 2015

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• You can't measure success if you have never failed. My father has taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Focus only on getting better.

  Steffi Graf

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

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• I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me!

  Jimmy Connors

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• Islam will win with or without you, but without Islam you will get lost and lose.

  Ahmed Deedat

  Religious, Islamic, Winning

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• Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Oct 23, 2013

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• I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost."

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Losing Someone, Feeling Lost

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