Loser Quotes - Page 24

• You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Confidence, Self Esteem

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• One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Fighting, Battle, Oneself

  Mario Vargas Llosa (2012). “Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter”, p.161, Faber & Faber

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• Tim was dead. And he's always been a loser. I'd be damned if I was going to be the victim of a loser - or anyone else.

  Patricia Briggs

  Victim, Ifs

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.1003, Penguin

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• I knew we’d wear them down,” Eve said. “After all, we really are amazingly cool.” And now it was Eve’s turn for the high five with Shane. “For a bunch of misfit geeks, slackers, and losers.” Which one are you?” Shane asked. She flipped him off. “Oh, right. Loser. Thanks for reminding me.

  Rachel Caine

  Thanks, Geek, Misfits

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.1909, Penguin

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• Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids.

  Steve Toltz

  Kids, Parent, Blame

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• Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers

  Daniel Clowes

  Art, Hate, School

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• I have to introduce the part of me that feels like a winner to the part of me convinced I’m a loser, and see if they can’t agree to exist somewhere closer to the middle.

  Lauren Graham

  Winner, Introducing, Middle

  Lauren Graham (2013). “Someday, Someday, Maybe: A Novel”, p.177, Ballantine Books

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• New Rule: You're never going to pick up women at a coffee shop pretending to be working on your laptop. You don't look like you're sensitive, you look like you're homeless.The last guy to pick up a chick with an Apple was Adam. And when you sit across from another dateless loser with a laptop, it still doesn't look like you're working--it looks like you're playing Battleship.

  Bill Maher

  Coffee, Apples, Guy

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.65, Penguin

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• When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Motivational, Inspiring, Success

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• A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Forgiveness, Sacrifice, Forgiving

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• Thankfully dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses. So whatever your dream is right now, if you don't achieve it, you haven't failed and you're not some loser-but just as importantly-if you do get your dream, you're not a winner.

  Stephen Colbert

  Graduation, Dream, Princess

  "15 Memorable Celebrity Graduation Speeches" by Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2014.

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• Those who live in the past are cowards and losers.

  Mike Ditka

  Motivation, Past, Coward

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• The true test of the American ideal is whether we're able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history, or whether we act to shape them. Whether chance of birth or circumstance decides life's big winners and losers, or whether we build a community where, at the very least, everyone has a chance to work hard, get ahead, and reach their dreams.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Humility, Hard Work

  Commencement Address at Knox College, delivered 4 June 2005, Galesburg, Illinois

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• Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.

  Robert Breault

  Attitude, Opportunity, Work Out

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• Therefore, as a player, as a coach, even though we might have lost in a season or not won a championship, it was like a self-fulfilling prophecy that I'm going to win some time. I've never felt myself a loser.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Loss, Winning, Player

  "Duke of the Court". The Academy of Achievement Interveiw, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• What's made Milwaukee famous has made a loser out of me.

  Glenn Sutton

  Drinking, Milwaukee, Made

  "Song: "What's Made Milwaukee Famous"". May 1968.

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• In life, we choose whether or not we want to be a winner or a loser. To be a winner, we must devote time and hard work. To be a loser you do nothing, and that's exactly what you will get, nothing.

  John Patrick Boles

  Success, Sports, Hard Work

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• When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser.

  Mark Fidrych

  Basketball, Attitude, Winner

  Mark Fidrych, Tom Clark (1977). “No big deal”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Success, Encouragement, Motivation

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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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• You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.

  Pat Summitt

  Perseverance, Winning, Games

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.100, Crown Business

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• The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.

  Brian Tracy

  Life, Success, Softball

  Twitter post from Apr 11, 2017

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• America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Army

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• Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try.

  Dennis DeYoung

  Success, Basketball, Perseverance

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• Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Revenge, Dollars, Dimes

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.245, Pan Macmillan

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