Loss Quotes - Page 37

• And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2014). “Run to Daylight!: Vince Lombardi’s Diary of One Week with the Green Bay Packers”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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• If I win several tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

  Chris Evert

  Sports, Winning, Clouds

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• No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Fashion, Regret, Reading

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.43

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• The P.A.S.T. preventative screening and treatment programs are a must for all players. We can extend our lives and live a healthy and pain free life. The programs are very comprehensive. We have lost several players at a young age, maybe the loss of some of our players could have been prevented with the prevention, knowledge, and treatment that P.A.S.T. provides.

  James Worthy

  Pain, Player, Healthy

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• Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research now reveals that stress on the job causes stress at home. In other words, they feed off each other

  Zig Ziglar

  Success, Jobs, Business

  Zig Ziglar (2000). “Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World: Daily Hope for the Daily Grind”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this evanescent river of life wisely? With mindful awareness and love it becomes clear. You can fight against the river of change, or use its wisdom to teach you how to graciously move and create and flow with the full measure of joy and sorrow, gain and loss, praise and blame that make up every human incarnation.

  Jack Kornfield

  Moving, Fighting, Rivers

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• It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Unique, Abortion, Tissues

  "The Bitter Price of Choice". Washington Times, December 22, 1989.

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• We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Military, Enemy, Submarines

  "Historic Ship Exhibits in the United States". Book by United States Naval History Division and United States Navy, 1969.

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• The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.

  Sun Tzu

  Home, Army, People

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.11, Xist Publishing

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• I hope that you choose ultimately to follow your heart, and learn that whatever your plans, your goals, your dreams, life will take you in directions you haven't even dreamed of. Be open to the path not chosen, the door unopened, welcome your fear, and the choices that allow you that fear....Through all the changes, through all the disappointments, the unexpected turns, the victories, and the pain, the losses that you will experience, there will always be a constant, along with your breath, there will always be one thing that you will know, that you have the ability to choose your heart.

  Paul Michael Glaser

  Dream, Pain, Disappointment

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• The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

  Anna Freud

  Mother, War, Horror

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• Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

  Karl Rove

  Jobs, Usa, Gains

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• Uh, stay fat people - That's my motto. It's no picnic!

  Seth Rogen

  People, Picnics, Motto

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• When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely.

  Louis XI of France

  Pride, Haughtiness, Shame

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• I was horrified. Absolutely heart sick. All I could think of was that after 23 years together, I'd lost my faithful ally. I couldn't sleep, couldn't get the loss out of my mind. It was like discovering that someone in my family had died.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Heart, Sleep, Golf

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• All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Desire, Experience, Victim

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• A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.

  William James

  Pain, Spring, Animal

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.140, Courier Corporation

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• It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

  Mark Twain

  Memories, Grieving, Years

  Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.

  Victoria Alexander

  Grief, Grieving, Three

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• But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall.

  James K. Baxter

  Fall, Heart, Winter

  Vincent O'Sullivan, James K. Baxter (1976). “James K. Baxter”

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• Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.

  Mary Schmich

  Baseball, Disappointment, Hangover

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.220, Agate Digital

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• I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.

  Dave Reichert

  Goodbye, War, Believe

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• The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.

  Marcel Proust

  Beauty, Acquisition, Add

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.965, Jester House Publishing

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• No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Men, Cities

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

  Dan Quayle

  Silly, Dumb, Politics

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