Loser Quotes - Page 9

• The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

  A. A. Gill

  School, Thinking, Interesting

  "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.

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• There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Mean, Two, Class

  The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

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• I was a completely normal kid, the school nerd. In Year 8 and 9 I got picked on. I was a freak- no one understood me. I was the kid who wanted to be abducted by ET. Then all the losers left in Year 10. But I was quite good at school, and very artistic. In Year 11 it turned around. I became one of the coolest kids in school. I was in school musicals- the kid who could sing. It was bizzare. I loved school. It's an amazing little world. The rules inside the school are different from the outside world.

  Darren Hayes

  School, Kids, Years

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• The winner of the first point is the loser of the last.

  Michael Stean

  Lasts, Firsts, Winner

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• Winners expect to win before the contest starts; losers don't. Any individual becomes what he or she thinks about most. If you want to be a champion, then that thought must dominate your life. But most important, winners dwell on the rewards of winning; losers dwell on the penalties of failure.

  Wade Schalles

  Winning, Thinking, Champion

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• In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Selfish, War, Light

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• The difference between a winner and a loser is, many times, a matter of inches. If you think you can do it, most of the time you'll do it.

  Nancy Lieberman

  Sports, Thinking, Differences

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• To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.

  Vince Lombardi

  Determination, Laughter, Fun

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.232, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Nobody can make you a loser.

  Dan Marino

  Football, Nfl, Best Football

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• Only a loser finds it impossible to accept a temporary setback. A winner asks why.

  Ita Buttrose

  Wisdom, Impossible, Winner

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• In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

  Neville Chamberlain

  War, History, May

  Speech at Kettering, 3 July 1938, in The Times 4 July 1938

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• You are the spokesman for your character, you put on his case. Are you going to win or lose? There'll be no drama if you look like a loser at the outset.

  Clive Swift

  Drama, Character, Winning

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• The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Positive, Success

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• We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Self Esteem, War, Quarrels

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.189

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• Be aware of "yes" men. Generally, they are losers. Surround yourself with winners. Never forget - people win.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Sports, Believe

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• It's natural for a person to deny he's a failure as a human being. That's why he searches for somebody who is more miserable than himself. That's why so much animosity exists on the Internet. Those who aren't able to find a more miserable person turn to the Internet and call other people losers, even though they've never met just to make themselves superior. Isn't that pathetic? There's a sense of security that comes from speaking badly of someone else. But that isn't true salvation.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  People, Miserable Person, Internet

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• Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

  Questlove

  Giving Up, Years, Circles

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• If we expect kids to be losers they will be losers; if we expect them to be winners they will be winners. They rise, or fall, to the level of the expectations of those around them, especially their parents and their teachers.

  Jaime Escalante

  Teacher, Fall, Kids

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• Teamwork is the glue which binds losers together

  Felix Dennis

  Teamwork, Together, Glue

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• To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers.

  Hakim Bey

  Humanity, Caves, Kind

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.97, Autonomedia

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• The Olympics is my favourite sporting event. Although I have a problem with that silver medal. When you think about it, you win the gold - you feel good, you win the bronze - you think, 'Well at least I got something'. But when you win silver, it's like, 'Congratulations, you 'almost' won. Of all the losers, you came in first of that group. You're the number one 'loser.' No one lost ahead of you.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Congratulations, Winning, Thinking

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• The race to win turns us all into losers.

  Alfie Kohn

  Winning, Race, Turns

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.448, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.

  Jim Bishop

  Agreement, Two

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• When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.

  Phil Ochs

  Color, Tvs, Looks

  Liner notes for compilation album "The Broadside Tapes 1" by Phil Ochs, 1989.

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• All my life I’ve been a lady bruiser, a wrong chooser, school refuser, drug abuser, born loser; clothes bummy, nose runny, it wasn’t funny

  Big L

  School, Clothes, Drug

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