Choose To Lose Quotes

#1. The minute you say "I can't", it is another wrong affirmation to your subconscious that you choose to lose.

Tsem Tulku

#2. How you choose to lose yourself matters. Trust me, it's all in the 'how'. It matters a lot.

Anne Sexton

#3. There is no such thing as a bad day. It is simply nothing but a challenge. You are free to choose to win or lose, or be happy or miserable.

Joey Lawsin

#4. Are we defending life when we just pick and choose lives acceptable to lose and which ones to defend?

Derek Webb

#5. Three courses open lie to wealth, to give, enjoy, or lose, Who shrinketh from the former two, perforce the third doth choose.

Bhartrhari

#6. So much to win, so much to lose,
No marvel that I fear to choose.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#7. Choose to be at peace with yourself and you will never have any battle to lose. Find yourself every reason and season to share your peace with others!

Israelmore Ayivor

#8. If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.

Antonin Artaud

#9. I can't lose you. I can't survive it." "Yes, you can," he murmured, his fingertips touching her cheek. "You can survive anything. Loss can be like chains holding you in place or a fire pushing you onward. We each choose every day what it will be to us.

Annette Marie

#10. How can the public choose sides, when one side has nothing left to surrender? Not until the right is prepared to lose on principles will we ever hope to win this culture war on which the survival of our nation depends.

Don Feder

#11. Sometimes in life there are things to choose.
Even if it means the one you love you lose.
Sometimes it's a lesson you need to know.
That to pass the test the ones you love you let go.

Laqueisha Malone

#12. I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection.

Mark Skousen

#13. Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

Gore Vidal

#14. Those who are not free to live as they choose are second class citizens. The weak will lose everything to the strong, even their lives.

Naoyuki Ochiai

#15. If you knew you were
going to lose your memory
but you could choose five things
you'd never forget, what would they be -
a certain face, a taste, a scent,
a touch; how deep
in this, the middle
of your life?

Kristen Henderson

#16. We don't want to indoctrinate our kids, but we don't want to lose them to closed-minded fundamentalists either. We want our kids to choose their own beliefs, but only within reason. Letting

Wendy Thomas Russell

#17. The myriad choices of his fate
Set themselves out upon a plate
For him to choose
What had he to lose

Lou Reed

#18. I wondered what it was like to live in a world with the freedom to choose. Did you somehow lose yourself, or your focus, when decisions pulled your mind in so many directions? Was it confusing, burdensome, somehow?

Sarah Domet

#19. O! I shall soon despair, when I shall see
That Thou lovest mankind well, yet wilt not choose me,
And Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.

John Donne

#20. Thoughts are not who you are, they're habitual patterns in the mind, nothing more and as soon as you see them that way, they lose their sting. I think of them as the noise of a radio in another room; I can pay attention, sing along with them if I want and also choose to ignore them.

Ruby Wax

#21. You can choose, don't confuse, win or lose, it's up to you.

Ozzy Osbourne

#22. Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.

Anatole France

#23. This is the choice in life. You choose what is less bad. I don't particularly like Mr. Obama, but I think he is less bad for the world than Mr. Romney. It is a tragedy of life that both candidates did not lose the election. They would have deserved both to lose.

Marc Faber

#24. Tis the gift to be gentle, 'tis the gift to be fair,
'Tis the gift to wake and breathe the morning air,
To walk every day in the path that we choose,
Is the gift that we pray we will never never lose.

Patricia Briggs

#25. Love child! What else? You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you will become more than before. What you make of it is yours to choose.

Jacqueline Carey

#26. So don't fall in love, there's just too much to lose; if you're given the chance then I'm begging you choose to walk away, walk away, don't let it get you. I can't bear to see the same thing happen to you.

Mayday Parade

#27. When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.

Masha Gessen

#28. If you have to choose between character and reputation. Choose character every single time. Then you can be authentic and straight. Nothing to lose.

Parashar Pandya

#29. I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests in me, Drawn upward by the choice that makes him free, Leave him in tragic loneliness to choose, With all in life to win or all to lose.

Edwin Markham

#30. Every incident chips away at your limit. Every time you choose to stay, it makes the next time that much harder to leave. Eventually, you lose sight of your limit altogether, because you start to think, 'I've lasted five years now. What's five more?

Colleen Hoover

#31. She fears him, and will always ask
What fated her to choose him;
She meets in his engaging mask
All reasons to refuse him;
But what she meets and what she fears
Are less than are the downward years
Drawn slowly to the foamless weirs
Of age, were she to lose him.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#32. You forget that you do choose your life and there are so many things to be grateful for and I feel like society has gotten to that point where we're always looking for the next and the better and we lose sight of what's actually in front of us.

Shailene Woodley

#33. When you are in a jackal environment, never give them the power to submit or rebel. We want to teach this to children very early: Never lose track that you are always free to choose. Don't allow institutions to determine what you do.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#34. Do not rush into a business just because you have the capital. You'd lose your shirt if you jump into it recklessly. Do your homework first. Study the market and look for that golden opportunity. Whatever business you choose to go into, it must be something that you can pursue with passion.

Andrew Tan

#35. Believing everything she read
In the daily news,
(No in-between to choose)
She thought that only
One side won,
Not that BOTH
Might lose.

Langston Hughes

#36. Never lose sight of your wish! And if you want to see the wish fulfilled ... you must choose! No matter how painful the choice may be.

CLAMP

#37. Not to decide is to decide. Letting something go until it 'decides itself' is Life by Default. You don't want to live that way. So choose. Choose right now. Stop worrying about what you can 'lose' or how you can 'win' and just follow your joy. Where does your joy say you should go?

Neale Donald Walsch

#38. Woman won't accept to be your second opinion, either you choose her or you lose her.

Eyden I.

#39. You must choose to risk what you fear to lose to gain everything you desire

Catrice M. Jackson

#40. When we lose a battle, we have to regroup and move forward again. Choose an alternate path if necessary. But if we dwell on every action we've taken, it will cripple us, and soon we'll take no action at all.

Mary E. Pearson

#41. You cannot pick and choose love. Love picks and chooses you, if you are lucky. So what, you might lose everything? What better thing is there to lose if not everything for love?

Jack Dancer

#42. The only time you ever really lose love is when you choose to let it go.

Jessica Fortunato

#43. I carefully choose people in my life and if you are not happy with it, then its your call to be angry, broken, disappointed and lose sleep over my choice, judgement & decision ... no apologies.

Uzoma Nnadi

#44. The next time, Mr. Potter, that you choose to escalate a contest rather than lose, you may lose all the stakes you place on the table.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#45. I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.

Mary J. Blige

#46. Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Christine Warren

#47. Every moment of Life is a Challenge to Choose. Some Win, some Lose. -RVM

R.v.m.

#48. In life you get the choice, it depends on what you choose and how you live with the consequences to whether you win or lose!

Adam Johnston

#49. When you are made to choose between two good things ... Don't just think of what you'll get when you pick one. But think of what you'll lose when you don't choose the other.

Noemie Lenoir

#50. The more that we choose not to talk about domestic violence, the more we shy away from the issue, the more we lose.

Russell Wilson

#51. You know that proper doctoring means hard choices." She gave me an unflinching look. "We hain't like other folk. You burn a man with an iron to stop his bleeding. You save the mother and lose the babe. It's hard, and nobody ever thanks you for it. But we're the ones that have to choose." She

Patrick Rothfuss

#52. You can't choose the person who really sees you - the person who knows what you're feeling without you saying a word, the person who can make you laugh and cry and everything in between just by looking at you. The one you can't imagine being lucky enough to have, or unlucky enough to lose.

Kami Garcia