Top 100 How To Lose Quotes
#1. The new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.
Gloria Steinem
#2. I tried to be the leader ... that was my aim. But it is important to know how to win and how to lose.
Vitali Klitschko
#3. I really enjoy playing with someone else and whether it's chess or tennis or games, I love card games. I love that, but I think there's something so important to gain from winning and losing and learning how to lose and how you can be better from that.
Hilary Swank
#4. Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.
Brian Clough
#5. If you can sing, you never lose your voice. If you don't know how to sing, your voice goes away because you sing from your throat.
Daryl Hall
#6. It's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle. p28
Donna Tartt
#7. I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?
Sherman Alexie
#8. If I could have a Barbie body, which has no cellulite, I totally would. I would like to have a flatter stomach, but that won't happen either. That is never going to happen. No matter how much weight I lose, my stomach, below the belly button, always pooches out.
Holly Madison
#9. The questions had become: What can we forgive in others? How far do they have to go before we lose faith in them?
Hanif Kureishi
#10. Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.
Milos Forman
#11. If it hadn't been for Prosper, he might never have learned how to love at all. Because the ability to become attached to people was something that you had to exercise at an early age, if you didn't want to lose it altogether.
Catherine Jinks
#12. People have to know that if they've wanted to lose weight, if they've wanted to get their diabetes better and get their cholesterol down, here is how it works. Beyond that point, you can't force people into changes, you have to guide them.
Neal Barnard
#13. If there was one thing she was learning from all this, it was how easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.
Cassandra Clare
#14. I'm always striving to lose weight. And it's not a matter of wanting to be a size 3 again - I brought out my leotards, and a friend thought they were doll clothes. Being heavy isn't good for you. How long can your heart take the strain? So, I never give up, but it's hard.
Liz Torres
#15. It struck Harold afresh how life could change in an instant. You could be doing something so everyday - walking your partner's dog, putting on your shoes - and not knowing that everything you wanted you were about to lose.
Rachel Joyce
#16. I think that kids have a knack for detecting happiness, but they lose it as they get older. They have to. Otherwise they'd notice how unhappy everybody else is, and they'd never be able to be happy themselves.
Tommy Wallach
#17. If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.
Ami McKay
#18. Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.
Judith Viorst
#19. How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to lose I wondered what I would have thought of Andrius in Lithuania. Would I have liked him Would he have liked me
Ruta Sepetys
#20. How can I lose my attraction to the most beautiful face in the universe? Revive my soul and reopen my eyes to your glory and grace. Amen.
Timothy J. Keller
#21. You can either go to the gym because you want to lose weight, or you can go to the gym because you like how it makes you feel when you're running.
Craig Finn
#22. I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game.
Patricia Richardson
#23. What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.
Anais Nin
#24. I had never tried other drugs... But how can any of them with their effects transcend the intoxication of a first love?! It swallowed me unexpectedly. It tied me to a man once and for all. It blinded me... Disarmed me... And made me lose my mind.
Rom Amor
#25. You know, no matter how cool some guys think they are, when it comes to some girls, it's like they lose their mind. They start saying and doing really stupid stuff
Julie Hockley
#27. That first kill taught him how easy it was. It taught him violence wasn't the final refuge of the stupid, but rather the final refuge of a man unwilling to lose.
Michael R. Fletcher
#28. What did we lose, what was lost in us?
To whom do these distances belong that separated us
and that now bind us?
Are we still one
or have we both broken into pieces? How gentle this dust is-
Its body now, and mine, at this very minute
are one and the same
Adonis
#29. The people who change the world never lose hope no matter how bleak the outcome might appear to be.
Laurence Overmire
#30. Fear is how you lose your life ... a little bit at a time ... What we give to fear, we take away from ... faith.
Mitch Albom
#31. How is a redneck divorce similar to a tornado?
You know that somewhere, somehow, someone is gonna lose a trailer.
Jeff Foxworthy
#32. When you have little kids, you lose friends because you're so busy, but as they get older, you realise how important it is to have your girlfriends around.
Leslie Mann
#33. What do you say to people when they ask you how it feels to lose everything?
Sherman Alexie
#34. I would tell him how he almost made us lose interest in passion by his obsession with the gestures empty of their emotions, and how we reviled him, because he almost caused us to take vows of chastity, because what he wanted us to exclude was our own aphrodisiac - poetry.
Anais Nin
#35. There's always gonna be another mountain, I'm always gonna wanna make it move, Always gonna be a uphill battle, Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose, Ain't about how fast I get there, Ain't about what's waiting on the other side, It's the climb
Miley Cyrus
#36. I think sometimes when you love something too much, you're that much more aware of how much you have to lose
Karina Halle
#37. It's fairly easy to break hearts, Miss Duvall. The more interesting challenge is how to keep someone's love, not to lose it.
Lisa Kleypas
#38. I know the consequences of my decisions. I've said no to the biggest of brands. So when I say no to something, I know how much business I will lose out on.
Kangana Ranaut
#39. Life is too damn short to not tell someone how you feel. Don't let someone because you're afraid or you'll lose them forever.
Benjamin Bayani
#40. I've said many times, 'You learn to win through not liking to lose.' And that's what I mean by learning how to win.
Tom Watson
#41. Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
George Sand
#42. We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone.
Amanda Seyfried
#43. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?
Joshua Foer
#45. I didn't say anything. Greta always knew how to make me lose my words.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#46. How long before the shouting starts? How long before the tears and the accusations and the pain? That specific stone n the stomach pain when you lose something you haven't got round to valuing? Why is the measure of love loss?
Jeanette Winterson
#47. Ah, Death, the spectre which sate at all feasts! How often, Monos, did we lose ourselves in speculations upon its nature! How mysteriously did it act as a check to human bliss - saying unto it thus far, and no farther!
Edgar Allan Poe
#48. Only when I make movements away from the tribe of indie art and literature. Maybe that's something important for me to keep thinking about. What you gain, what you lose, why and how. Maybe the edge of the page is the place for me. Maybe that's OK.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#49. 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
#50. People die, sure," my mother was saying. "But it's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.
Donna Tartt
#51. You may avoid the risk of a car accident if you avoid driving, but you will lose the joy and freedom of driving.
Debasish Mridha
#52. 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
#53. We are born faithful and afraid, when it should be the opposite; it is life that teaches us how much we stand to lose.
Justin Cronin
#54. Little did he know, back then, that the worth of one's faith depended not on how solid and strong it was, but on how many times one would lose it and still be able to get it back.
Elif Shafak
#55. The fire between us sparked so brightly because we both knew how it was without the other. We knew exactly how much we both had to lose.
Brighton Walsh
#56. In its factical existence, any particular Dasein either 'has the time' or 'does not have it'. It either 'takes time' for something or 'cannot allow any time for it'. Why does Dasein 'take time', and why can it 'lose' it? Where does it take time from? How is this time related to Dasein's temporality?
Martin Heidegger
#57. I'm always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.
Robert Kiyosaki
#58. She stretched her hands towards the sky. To grab all the stars, to hold the moon, to take away everything that the sky had. So that the sky could finally understand, how it feels to lose everything that makes it beautiful.
Akshay Vasu
#59. We were starting to lose track with Earth because fame and success brings you many things that you're not really prepared for or know how to deal with as a human being.
Paul Simonon
#60. If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.
William J.H. Boetcker
#61. How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has something to lose: His coffin!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#62. Here's how you think about it: Together you constructed many things throughout your life. Then her body disappeared, but the constructions still remain. Human beings die: That's natural. But to accept her death is to lose all hope.
Michael Paterniti
#63. How many solutions are found to family problems if we take time to reflect? If we think of a husband or wife and we dream about their good qualities that they have? Don't ever lose the illusion of when you were boyfriend and girlfriend!
Pope Francis
#64. If I had known how easy it is to lose your life, I would have treasured mine better.
Yangsze Choo
#65. There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new, lifelong status. If you lose a spouse, you are a widow; if you lose a parent, you are an orphan. But what about when you lose a child? How do you name something you cannot comprehend?
Lisa Belkin
#66. Overcoming the world. And thus finding it. For we must not only be in it and above it, but of it too. To love it for what it is- how difficult! And yet it's the first, the only task. Evade it, and you are lost. Lose yourself in it and you are free.
Henry Miller
#67. How can you bear to understand that you will get old and lose this feeling, will die and wither and encounter nothing but dark? How can you bear it? Since
Kate Griffin
#68. And as long as your cats is loyal to what y'all are standing for, and they know how to play the game, it should be no way you can lose. It's about compromising; it's about respecting one another's position, and about going with your heart as far as what you believe in.
Raekwon
#69. With any tween, you have issues, from what they are going to wear to school, to how do you get them to speak politely, to how regularly they lose their contact lenses.
Marcia Gay Harden
#70. Perhaps one of the reasons I've avoided standing on the point toward the horizon is the second you stand up and point toward a horizon, you realize how much there is to lose.
Donald Miller
#71. When we know exactly all a man's views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any respect for him, though we may love and admire him.
James Boswell
#72. You will lose not because of your abilities but because of your lack of desire to participate.
Debasish Mridha
#73. I'm not used to sensitivity any more. When I see people cry when I lose, save your tears. I don't know how to handle people crying any more. I lost my sensitivity like that. Please, you embarrass me when you cry because I don't know what to do when you cry. I don't know what to say.
Mike Tyson
#74. He wanted his brother to be happy, but he also didn't want Lauren to have to lose her family in the process, because he couldn't imagine losing his so he understood how she felt.
K.C. Mills
#75. For many years, I struggled with how I felt about myself. I hid and harbored very self-destructive eating issues, namely anorexia, which at its worst caused me to lose half of my hair and brought my weight down dramatically.
Renee Olstead
#76. No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.
Reid Hoffman
#77. Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.
Don Young
#78. I realize we lose our innocence in many ways, the most painful being when we realize those who are supposed to love us and care for us more than anything, really care for themselves and their own pleasures more. It's painful because it makes you realize how alone you really are.
V.C. Andrews
#79. It was not feasible to lose time in making careful surveys or extensive preliminary studies of possible control methods; learn how to get rid of Anopheles gambiae by actually getting rid of Anopheles gambiae.
Fred Lowe Soper
#80. You will come to a place where the streets are not marked.
Some windows are lighted. but mostly they're darked.
But mostly they're darked.
A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin!
Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in?
How much can you lose? How much can you win?
Dr. Seuss
#81. I've played a mother many times, even in tragic things like, "I Dreamed of Africa," so I know how it is to lose [a child] cinematically. I have so much compassion on so many fronts, for women who have lost children or tried for years and couldn't have them.
Kim Basinger
#82. How great God is! He has given us eyes to see the beauty of the world, hands to touch it, a nose to experience all its fragrance, and a heart to appreciate it all. But we don't realize how miraculous our senses are until we lose one.
Malala Yousafzai
#83. The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.
James Bovard
#84. How was I to know that I'd be ok? I thought I'd lose it all when you walked away. How was I to know that I'd be this strong? I had what it takes all along. How was I to know?
Reba McEntire
#85. It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.
Deb Caletti
#86. I don't know how to make you better. I wish I did, but please stay with me. I need you, and I can't lose you. Not now. Not ever.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#87. Sport for me is about inspiring kids. Here's the rules, here's the play area, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. This is all about teaching kids how to approach life. If we're not playing sport to benefit kids, I'm not really sure why we play sport.
Russell Crowe
#88. 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
#89. You lost your wife, Douglas. My heartbreaks for you, it really does. But I lose my husband every day, all over again. And I don't even get to mourn.
Jonathan Tropper
#90. I can be poor, I can lose a job, I can have a hospital bill that I don't know how to pay, for I can do all these things through Him who strengthens me.
John Piper
#91. I really knew how to speak - from my female voice, that "different voice" that Carol Gilligan so presciently described many years ago in her groundbreaking book. Because if we try to speak in a voice that isn't ours, we lose our power.
Elizabeth Lesser
#92. Stop trying to figure out what is 'best' for you (how you can win the most, lose the least, get what you want) and start going with what feels like Who You Are.
Neale Donald Walsch
#93. You're going to lose your life anyway. It may be now. It may be decades from now. But at some point it's going to happen, and you have no idea when or how. So it's important to be true to yourself at every moment.
Brad Warner
#94. It's a new day, a new beginning for your new life. With discipline you will be amazed at how much progress you'll be able to make. What have you got to lose except the guilt and fear of the past?
Jim Rohn
#96. I tend to lose myself in the moment. I'm not very good at holding back. I don't know how to do this without feeling everything. My emotions are the tool I use to perform.
Florence Welch
#97. I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.
Lauren Alaina
#98. It was Jamie's fear that he would lose her - that she would go, swing out into a dark and solitary space without him, unless he could somehow bind her to him, keep her with him. But, Christ, what a risk to take - with a woman so shocked and brutalized, how could he risk it?
Diana Gabaldon
#99. A lot of people don't realize that when you're trying to lose weight, or just trying to stay fit, 85 percent of it is what you eat, and 15 percent of it is how you work out.
Ciara
#100. 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
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