Losing Quotes - Page 9

• Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Fighting, Acceptance, Reality

  "Friends Remember Elizabeth Edwards; Muppets & Healthy Eating", www.cnn.com. December 8, 2010.

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• When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Liars, Lying, People

  "Our Culture, What’s Left Of It". Interview with Jamie Glazov, archive.frontpagemag.com. August 31, 2005.

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• Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

  Julian Assange

  Love, Courage, Character

  "Witnessing". Selected Correspondence, Julian Assange's old blog, IQ.org (via Archive.org), web.archive.org. January 3, 2007.

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  I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back.

  Prince

  Song, Losing Someone, African American

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are just four kinds of bets. There are good bets, bad bets, bets that you win, and bets that you lose. Winning a bad bet can be the most dangerous outcome of all, because a success of that kind can encourage you to take more bad bets in the future, when the odds will be running against you. You can also lose a good bet no matter how sound the underlying proposition, but if you keep placing good bets, over time, the law of averages will be working for you.

  Larry Hite

  Success, Running, Winning

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• Nice guys do not finish last. Last place is for the cowards and those too full of fear to take action.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Courage, Fear

  Twitter post from Aug 02, 2013

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• If we want to be known in heaven and feared in hell we must be willing to lose our reputation here on earth.

  Loren Cunningham

  Christian, Fear, Heaven

  Loren Cunningham (1997). “Making Jesus Lord: The Dynamic Power of Laying Down Your Rights”, p.70, YWAM Publishing

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• I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver.

  Michelle Kwan

  Positive, Sports, Winning

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• It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.

  Tove Jansson

  Life, Simple, Curiosity

  Tove Jansson (2007). “Fair Play: A Novel”, Sort of

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• I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me!

  Jimmy Connors

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• Islam will win with or without you, but without Islam you will get lost and lose.

  Ahmed Deedat

  Religious, Islamic, Winning

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• A life totally committed to God has nothing to fear, nothing to lose, nothing to regret.

  Pandita Ramabai

  Life, God, Religious

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• People are afraid that if they let go of their anger and righteousness and wrath, and look at their own feelings-and even see the good in a bad person-they're going to lose the energy they need to do something about the problem. But actually you get more strength and energy by operating from a place of love and concern. You can be just as tough, but more effectively tough.

  Robert Thurman

  Love, Strength, Letting Go

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• Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.

  Earl A Grollman

  Love, Inspirational, Death

  Earl A. Grollman (2014). “Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love”, p.6, Beacon Press

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• Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Failure, Loss

  FaceBook post by Andre Agassi from Feb 25, 2015

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• You can't measure success if you have never failed. My father has taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Focus only on getting better.

  Steffi Graf

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

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• Winners see what they want. Losers see what they don't want. Don't let the game eat you; you eat the game.

  Moe Norman

  Motivational, Sports, Winning

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• Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Oct 23, 2013

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• When men lose against me, they always have a headache ... or things of that kind. I have never beaten a completely healthy man!

  Susan Polgar

  Funny, Women, Humorous

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• It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself.

  Floyd Patterson

  Sports, Men, Mma

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• You quit, you lose. You keep going, you may still lose. But, your ambition will never die.

  Gurbaksh Chahal

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Ambition

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• Nothing can cost you someone you love. The only thing that can cost you your husband is if you believe a thought. That's how you move away from him. That's how the marriage ends. You are one with your husband until you believe the thought that he should look a certain way, he should give you something, he should be something other than what he is. That's how you divorce him. Right then and there you have lost your marriage.

  Byron Katie

  Love, Family, Marriage

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came. Anticipate your battles; fight them on your knees before temptation comes, and you will always have victory.

  R. A. Torrey

  Motivational, Success, Christian

  R. A. Torrey, Edward D. Andrews (2016). “CHRISTIAN LIVING: How to Succeed in the Christian Life [Updated and Expanded]”, p.259, Christian Publishing House

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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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• You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Attitude

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