Losing Quotes - Page 14

• Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

  Richard Whately

  Good Morning, Good Day, Up Early

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• Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

  Walt Whitman

  Fall, Good Day, Battle

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 18

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• And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn't go far enough. They say why isn't it in place now? Why don't I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That's hurting Obama.

  Juan Williams

  Hurt, Keys, Upset

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• If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated.

  Serena Williams

  Thinking, Motivated, Knows

  "Serena Williams pre-Wimbledon". The Wimbledon.com Interview, www.wimbledon.com. June 23, 2012.

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• Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.

  Venus Williams

  Loss, Games, Bigger

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• I rescue families who are losing their homes because they have no jobs and they can't pay the mortgage and the banks are foreclosing on their homes.

  will.i.am

  Jobs, Home, Pay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.

  Gary Zukav

  Loss, Affection, Strive

  "Looking Back on Valentine’s Day" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 29, 2012.

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• A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

  Germaine Greer

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.

  Mae West

  Funny, Girl, Sexy

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West".

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• Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He knows there's a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girlfriend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain.

  Ken Kesey

  Running, Girlfriend, Hurt

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.128, Hamilton Books

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• The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime, is still one of the most chilling nightmares to me. It's a good metaphor for fears I have about losing my soul in some accidental, mundane way. So, to me, these jobs that my characters have are very loaded. They immediately suggest a complex character to me, a woman who is, say, a secretary, but also a vigilante on behalf of her own soul.

  Miranda July

  Jobs, Writing, Character

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• Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

  Mitch Albom

  Positive, Sacrifice, Sometimes

  "The Five People You Meet in Heaven". Book by Mitch Albom, 2003.

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• All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Winning, Games, Chess Game

  Ecke Bonk, Marcel Duchamp (1989). “Marcel Duchamp, the box in a valise: De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy : inventory of an edition”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• Love drains you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans slowing, the lights dimming and flickering; the clocks stop and go and stop.

  Lorrie Moore

  Light, Blood, Water

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Dec 18, 2010

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• We are afraid of losing what we have.

  Paulo Coelho

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing.

  Portia de Rossi

  Race, Class, Firsts

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

  Confucius

  Education, Teaching, Learning

  Chʻu Chai, Confucius, Mencius (1965). “Lun Yü”, New Hyde Park, N.Y. : University Books

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• In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is possible - as our experience in this good land shows - to exile ourselves from Creation, and to ally ourselves with the principle of destruction - which is, ultimately, the principle of nonentity. It is to be willing in general for being to not-be. And once we have allied ourselves with that principle, we are foolish to think that we can control the results. (pg. 303, The Gift of Good Land)

  Wendell Berry

  Loss, Thinking, Land

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• Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Success, Failure

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.151, Robert Kiyosaki

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• Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.

  Amy Sedaris

  Pet, Sometimes, Painful

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• Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Winning, Self, Stupidity

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• I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Here I Am, Able, Too Much

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he leaned in to kiss her, she gave herself over to him. While he held her close, she ran her hands over his shoulders and back, feeling the strength in his arms. She knew he’d wanted more in their relationship than she’d been willing to offer, but here and now, she suddenly knew she had no other choice. There was only this moment, and it was theirs.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Kissing, Hands, Choices

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• The key isn't winning -- or losing, it's making the attempt. I may never be what I ought to be, want to be -- but how will I know unless I try? Sure, it's scary, but what's the alternative? Stagnation - A safer, more terrible form of death. Not of the body, but of the spirit. An animal knows what it is, and accepts it. A man may know what he is -- but he questions. He dreams. He strives. Changes. Grows.

  Chris Claremont

  Dream, Animal, Winning

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• Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.

  Walker Percy

  Losing Hope, Hiding

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.84, Open Road Media

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