Loses Quotes

• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  I Miss You, Missing You, Broken Heart

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• Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply at life as it is. In the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom. We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? The sage calls a person who knows how to dwell in mindfulness night and day, 'one who knows the better way to live alone.'

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Past, Night

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• The world allured me & in an unguarded moment I listened to her siren voice. From that moment I seemed to lose interest in heavenly things. Friends reasoned with me & told me of the danger I was in. I felt my danger & was alarmed, but I had rambled too far to return & ever since my heart has been growing harder.

  Emily Dickinson

  Heart, Voice, Atheism

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• Now remember: When things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is.

  Josey Wales

  Dog, Perseverance, Giving Up

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• Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own idea of greatness is illusory, and if we pay too much attention to it we will be lured out of the peace and stability of the being God gave us, and seek to live in a myth we have created for ourselves. And when we are truly ourselves we lose most of the futile self-consciousness that keeps us constantly comparing ourselves with others in order to see how big we are.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Wisdom, Greatness

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.128, Shambhala Publications

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• Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your 'joie de vivre be crushed under the weight of years.

  Zoroaster

  Life, Years, Joy

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• Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel's dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the objectifying technical impulse and loses its ancient task of pursuing the Socratic ideal of the wisdom of the examined life.

  Donald Phillip Verene

  Philosophy, Yield, Age

  "Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge". Book by Donald Phillip Verene, 1997.

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• It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Mean, Winning, Sides

  "Compromise Is Not a Dirty Word" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2011.

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• The loser is usually the one who is ready to lose.
  Fight, overcome difficulties, control your emotions – and you will win.

  Aleksandr Karelin

  Fighting, Winning, Overcoming

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• The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

  Charles Spurgeon

  Winning, Men, Gambling

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 67: Autobiography Vol. 2”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I was 14 when I lost them [his front teeth]. The main thing was, we won that game, so I was the happiest. You hate to lose your teeth and the game, too.

  Bill Barber

  Hate, Hockey, Games

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• You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Positive, Happiness

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

  William Penn

  Suffering, Inquiry, Blind

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.828

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• He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

  Publilius Syrus

  Self Esteem, Honor, Lost

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• It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.

  Gail Tsukiyama

  Bravery, Trying, Village

  Gail Tsukiyama (2008). “The Samurai's Garden: A Novel”, p.123, Macmillan

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• I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

  Vera Farmiga

  Thinking, Gambling, Inspirational Football

  "A Film of One’s Own". Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. September 3, 2006.

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• We must lose what we think we know so that we can come to see what we least expect.

  Christopher Kimball

  Thinking, Knows

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• Got to lose control before you take control.

  Patti Smith

  Take Control

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• In difficult times, people too often lose the ability to face the future optimistically. They begin to think about their tomorrow's negatively. They forget that the tough times will pass. They concentrate on the problems of today rather than on the opportunities of tomorrow. In so doing, they not only lose the potential of today, they also throw away the beauty of tomorrow.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  Robert H Schuller (2006). “Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!”, p.157, Orient Paperbacks

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• I Will Follow is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.

  Salli Richardson

  Celebration, Sometimes, Values

  "Salli Richardson-Whitfield: the 'I will follow'". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. March 9, 2011.

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• Get the mind right, the body will follow, you lose some battles in life, but if you always put your heart and passion forward first as your main objective, you will win the war, that’s what gives you the strength to get off the ground… and do it again.

  Greg Plitt

  War, Passion, Heart

  FaceBook post by Greg Plitt from Nov 15, 2014

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• In the century that has just passed, many of the intellectual elite went mad. It was as if, with the death of God, everyone suddenly turned into a saviour who wanted either to annihilate the obsolete world order or to establish a utopia. Naturally, there were writers among those who went mad. The fact that they had knowledge did not exempt intellectuals: there is madness everywhere. When one loses control over one's self, the result is madness.

  Gao Xingjian

  Self, Order, Mad

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• What kind of Christian are you? Did you ever lose a job, or lose a night's sleep, or lose a friend for God? If your Christianity never costs you a dollar, never cost you a friend, never cost any tears or broken heart, then can you really say that you love the Lord very much? To be a really good Christian is going to cost you.

  John R. Rice

  Christian, Jobs, Heart

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• If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem.

  Lawrence Lessig

  People, Three, Culture

  Keynote address at the Open Source Convention, July 24, 2002.

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