Losing Quotes - Page 27

• One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Time, Nice, Thinking

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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• The spirit of a warrior is not geared to indulging and complaining, nor is it geared to winning or losing. The spirit of a warrior is geared only to struggle, and every struggle is a warrior's last battle on earth. Thus the outcome matters very little to him. In his last battle on earth a warrior lets his spirit flow free and clear. And as he wages his battle, knowing that his intent is impeccable, a warrior laughs and laughs.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Struggle, Warrior

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Separate Reality”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• The Bible is to us what the star was to the wise men; but if we spend all our time in gazing upon it, observing its motions, and admiring its splendor, without being led to Christ by it, the use of it will be lost on us.

  Thomas Adams

  Inspirational, Bible, Christian

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• Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

  Knute Rockne

  Inspirational, Football, Loser

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• We will have to become 'perpetual marketers', to learn to be channel and data planners without losing our human insight or creativity; to vastly increase the level of accountability and provide more relevant experiences for customers.

  John Woodward

  Business, Creativity, Data

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• If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

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• Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

  Arthur Ashe

  Failure, Inward, Defeat

  Arthur Ashe (1995). “Arthur Ashe on Tennis: Strokes, Strategy, Traditions, Players, Psychology, and Wisdom”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• It is to hope, though hope were lost.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Hope, Lost Hope, Lost

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.74

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• There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them,
  and that's not training them and keeping them

  Zig Ziglar

  Funny, Leadership, Learning

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• A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm; judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Death, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Science, Two, Years

  "Edison Fears Hidden Perils of the X-Rays". "New York World" Newspaper, August 3, 1903.

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• If you're still doing what mommy and daddy said for you to do (go to school, get a job, and save money), you're losing.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Jobs, School

  Twitter post from Aug 13, 2013

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• To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Money, Inspiration, Successful

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• I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will have taught my daughters to be that way, and I'm now constantly telling them not to do that.

  Amy Chua

  Daughter, Mother, Yelling

  "Amy Chua: 'I'm going to take all your stuffed animals and burn them!'". Interview with Heather Hodson, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2011.

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• Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

  Aristotle

  Revenge, Men, Evil

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• In one of the decisive battles of World War I, disastrous reports poured into the headquarters of Marshal Foch, the commander of the Allied forces. The great general never lost heart. When things were at their worst, he drafted his famous order which is now in all textbooks of military strategy: "My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, my left is wavering. The situation is excellent. I shall attack!"

  James Keller

  Military, War, Heart

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• One is the path of devotion, what in India is called BHAKTI yoga, the path of love and devotion - a Meera, a Chaitanya, dancing and singing, losing themselves completely in the act. When Meera is dancing there is only dance, there is no Meera; the dancer is completely merged into the dance. When Chaitanya is singing and dancing there is no Chaitanya; he has become one with the act.

  Rajneesh

  Yoga, Dancing, Dancer

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• Unless a person decides that `Whatever the cost, I want just to be myself. Condemned, unaccepted, losing respectability - everything is okay but I cannot pretend anymore to be somebody else`... This decision and this declaration - this declaration of freedom, freedom from the weight of the crowd - gives birth to your natural being, to your individuality. Then you don`t need any mask. Then you can be simply yourself, just as you are. And the moment you can be just as you are, there is tremendous peace that passeth understanding.

  Rajneesh

  Giving, Decision, Understanding

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• Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

  John Ruskin

  Friendship, Men, Long

  John Ruskin (1904). “The works of John Ruskin”

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• You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world; don't refuse to regain your youth in Christ, who says to you: 'The world is passing away; the world is losing its grip; the world is short of breath. Don't fear, your youth shall be renewed as an eagle.'

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Eagles, Passing Away

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• My caddie dared me to try it, but I didn't think it was worth losing a ball.

  Ian Woosnam

  Golf, Thinking, Trying

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• We're losing ground. This planet is losing ground. So things need to happen and they need to happen quick. Our message should be-loud and clear-there comes a time when the home needs protecting and the line needs drawing and anybody that dares cross it acts at their own peril.

  Diane Wilson

  Religious, Home, Drawing

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• Eddie Robinson is about one word: winning and losing.

  Paul Collier

  Basketball, Winning, Eddie Robinson

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• It seemed like we were losing every night for a different reason. Now we're winning a different way every time. It's a great feeling.

  Blake Griffin

  Basketball, Winning, Night

  "Blake Griffin's 'electric' athleticism is shocking" by Rusty Simmons, www.sfgate.com. January 10, 2011.

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• The only thing even in this world is the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours.

  Woody Hayes

  Basketball, Winning, Differences

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