Top 17 Gracious Losing Quotes
#1. We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#2. I predicted that if control of drugs were administered by law enforcement agencies, the result would be a black market more irrational and widespread than that of alcohol prohibition and the growth of enormous police-state repressive bureaucracy. And who, indeed, wanted that?
Timothy Leary
#3. 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
#4. The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.
Kevin DeYoung
#5. As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows.
John Newton
#6. It's always hard to analyze what your own style is.
Julie Davis
#7. Prince Hrobarik, not being so gracious, tried to hire me to find a beauty who, sick of his vulgar advances, had fled the ball, losing a slipper.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#8. I've never been a depressive, but I felt quite close to the edge at times. But you never know what's around the corner. Mercifully, what's around the corner is joy.
Jonathan Dimbleby
#9. If you lined up everyone I've ever dated, you wouldn't see any similarities.
Lisa Marie Presley
#10. I've wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn't change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I still hate losing
I'm just more gracious about it. I'm also aware that setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.
Dara Torres
#11. We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
David Eagleman
#12. I don't like taking a sly picture on the side. I like the direct approach. I want to be as honest to myself and the subject as possible. And I'm depending on their humanness to come through.
Jurgen Teller
#13. He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a more unfortunate wretch than the oppressor; for in the day of adversity nobody is his friend.
Saadi
#14. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
Knute Rockne
#15. Last winter Prince Hrobarik, not being so gracious, tried to hire me to find a beauty who, sick of his vulgar advances, had fled the ball, losing a slipper. It was difficult to convince him that he needed a huntsman, and not a witcher.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#16. Unless I miss my guess, Yolly is about to become obsessed with horses. It's practically a stage on Piaget's developmental profile.
James K. Morrow
#17. Anything you say may be used against you.
Betty Smith
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