Losing Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Funny, People, Risk

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.224, Feminist Press at CUNY

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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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• 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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• 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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  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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• Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.

  Knute Rockne

  Sports, Fall, Winning

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• Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?

  Bindi Irwin

  Fall, Animal, House

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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 know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Winning, Leaving, Sides

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.541, Regnery Publishing

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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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• 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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• 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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• I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

  A. B. Yehoshua

  Thinking, Claims, Capacity

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• It's hard to get recognition when your team is losing.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Team, Recognition, Hard

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• Most private traders on a losing streak keep trying to trade their way out of a hole. A loser thinks a successful trade is just around the corner, and that his luck is about to turn. He keeps putting on more trades and increases his size, all the while digging himself a deeper hole in the ice. The sensible thing to do would be to reduce your trading size and then stop and review your system.

  Alexander Elder

  Successful, Thinking, Ice

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• I really miss Gunsmoke. It was like losing my whole family.

  Ken Curtis

  Missing, Whole Family, Whole

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• People always are encouraging about a terrible loss, so that sometimes the loser would like to strangle them.

  Garrison Keillor

  Loss, People, Loser

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Lake Wobegon Days”, p.6, Penguin

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• Some of the best lessons come from a bad day and there's a few we can learn from today.

  Greg Chappell

  Bad Day, Lessons, Today

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• Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  "Donald Trump’s Concession Speech" by Noam Bramson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 02, 2016.

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• Remember, when something leaves your life, God is making room for something much better to enter! Get ready!

  Paula White

  God, Faith, Optimistic

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• If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Faith, Sports, Running

  "This Inspiring, Blind Young Man Is Running the NYC Marathon to Save Lives" by Sibylle Eschapasse, www.theepochtimes.com. October 29, 2015.

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  There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

  Washington Irving

  Strength, Sad, Sympathy

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• If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.

  Edward Wilmot Blyden

  Being Yourself, Character, Giving

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• Every struggle, whether won or lost, strengthens us for the next to come. It is not good for people to have an easy life. They become weak and inefficient when they cease to struggle. Some need a series of defeats before developing the strength and courage to win a victory.

  Victorio

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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