Losing Quotes - Page 6

• I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.

  Ike Turner

  Confidence, Tired, Fighting

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• If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.

  Bjorn Borg

  Winning, Ifs

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• When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.

  Drew Carey

  Play, Pot

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie & Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November 1, 1997.

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• No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

  Richard Petty

  Positive, Attitude, Sunset

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• Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

  Bill Tilden

  Change, Winning, Games

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sunset, Done, Compromise

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.50, Fordham Univ Press

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• Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.

  O. J. Simpson

  Loser, Gracious, Show Me

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• I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

  Eddie Bernice Johnson

  Feels

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• You can't be everything to everybody, but you can be everything to somebody. Don't lose the ones you love trying to please the world

  Trent Shelton

  Love, Dope, Trying

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• Many things are lost for want of asking.

  George Herbert

  Asking, Want, Lost

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.321

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• No matter if you win or lose, the most important thing in life is to enjoy what you have.

  Dong Dong

  Winning, Things In Life, Important

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• At the end of the day, anybody who thinks there's a reward for nothing, ends up losing.

  Kerry Stokes

  Wisdom, Thinking, Greed

  Interview with Steve Sailah, www.abc.net.au. June 2, 2000.

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• The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Winning, Two, Goal

  "Better Than a Management Book" by Marty Nemko, www.sfgate.com. October 17, 2004.

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• Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

  Lynn Davies

  Life, Sports, Athlete

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• Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Games, Trying, Wit

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1964). “If You Don't Mind My Saying So ...: Essays on Man and Nature”

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• The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Eruption, Realizing, Forget

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.244, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a daily basis until the Business Checking Freedom Act becomes law.

  Sue Kelly

  Country, Law, Income

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• I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.

  Aretha Franklin

  Thinking, Weight, Hardest

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• The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Art, Sunset, Loss

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.198, Macmillan

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• I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sunset, Dark, Obscurity

  1925 Those Barren Leaves, pt.1, ch.1.

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• For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in

  Ian Thorpe

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

  Ian Thorpe (2012). “This Is Me: The Autobiography”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.

  Phil Ochs

  Girlfriend, America, Leaving

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

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• One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Doors, Symptoms, Turnover

  "Building a winning boardroom team". www.cnn.com. May 16, 2005.

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• Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

  William Graham Sumner

  Dream, Sunset, Men

  William Graham Sumner (1924). “Selected Essays of William Graham Sumner”

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  If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Birthday, Son, Men

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