Top 100 If You Lose Quotes
#1. Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, 'I'll do nothing until I can be sure.' Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean.
Rumi
#3. My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don't eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farmyard.
Billy Connolly
#4. We picked the Red Sox because they lose. If you root for something that loses for 86 years, you're a pretty good fan. You don't have to win everything to be a fan of something.
Jimmy Fallon
#5. If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.
Gary Panter
#6. Said I'd lose you if I wasn't careful, and then he took you away from me. I thought I'd lost you.
H.M. Ward
#7. I have learned there is a gift wrapped inside of every adversity and, if you have faith and hope, you can lose everything and still survive.
Sandi Bachom
#8. If you lose 50%, it takes 100% to get back to where you started-and that takes something you can never get back: time.
Tony Robbins
#9. When joy is LOST, hope can easily FIND it ... It's only your HOPE, that knows the where about of your JOY! If you lose hope you lose everything!
Israelmore Ayivor
#10. Creating success is a tug of war between your mind and your heart-your fears and your dreams. If your fears win, you lose.
Robert G. Allen
#11. Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.
Napoleon Hill
#12. If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.
Iain Sinclair
#13. Time does not act on memory to soften the edges, blur the details; if anything, it sharpens them. Emotions may lose their acid outlines, but not places and people, not if you wish to retain them.
Susan Moody
#14. If you want to lose sleep at night and eliminate all your free time or freedom, by all means open a small business, especially one that serves food.
Bill Clegg
#15. For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing or if you have pages of extraneous description, a kid's not going to do that. They will drop the book.
Rick Riordan
#16. You have to keep your goal in mind and never lose sight of it. I envisioned myself winning the heavyweight title for ten years before I actually captured it. If you're not driven to do your best, you'll never reach the level of excellence in your life.
George Foreman
#17. Survivor species tend to have huge populations, so they can afford to lose many individuals and still survive as a species. They also tend to be small. If you're small, you need less food - which is great in a situation where famine is everywhere.
Annalee Newitz
#18. Lose some valuable things in very different places and wait for a while! If they come back to you, it means that you are living in an honest society and in a very rare one too!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#19. Bit if you look too long at the small rights, Jake - the ones that lie close at hand - it's easy to lose sight of the big ones that stand farther off. Things are out of joint - going wrong and getting worse. We see it all around us, but the answers are still ahead.
Stephen King
#20. If you let a man cancel plans or decline to do things for you, you lose.
Gillian Flynn
#21. All your stress, pain, suffering, misery is due to your attachment with it. If you don't attach with the things, that doesn't serve you, either in your internal or external life, slowly those things lose grip on you, and you release yourself from it forever.
Roshan Sharma
#22. It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.
Jodi Picoult
#23. It is not important if you lose the game, but it is important, when you lose your trust by other people
Kamaran Ihsan Salih
#24. 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
#25. Alexandra sighed. I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours, if you care enough about me to take it.
Willa Cather
#26. If you leave, we lose and our pasts win.
Sylvia Day
#27. When you lose everything, you have nothing left to live for," said Hunter.
"If you have nothing left to live for, why are you still fighting?
Isabella Modra
#28. If you are a child of God, you don't lose your status if you have a bad week.
Timothy Keller
#29. If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#30. I didn't know if I still had it in me to be really dangerous, but I thought so. It's like knocking someone off a bike with a baseball bat; you never really lose the knack.
Simon R. Green
#31. She clenches the crystal necklace that Dagna gave me, the one I always wear. Never lose this, Harmony. It is a symbol of the beginning. The power that still lingers inside it will help you, but even as it fades, the memory of everything until now will carry you as if it were still strong.
Brandy Nacole
#32. The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you have the right policy and the right strategy, you always have a chance of winning. Without them, you can lose no matter how certain the victory seems.
Tony Blair
#33. The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.
Jimmy Doolittle
#34. Jonah squealed, jumping up and down and shaking his pom-poms. His skirt swished around his scrawny yellow knees.
"Jonah, can I give you a piece of sisterly advice?"
"Yeah."
"If you ever want to lose your virginity, don't do that again. Ever.
Carrie Harris
#35. In the United States economic system you can lose big or you can win big. If you lose you wind up wearing a Hefty bag and sleeping in a doorway. If you win you can have sex with Catherine Zeta Jones when you're seventy-five.
Richard Jeni
#36. If you are a singer and you lose your voice, you realize that you have other skill sets when that is taken out of the equation.
Annie Golden
#37. If you think you are going to win, you'll lose. Moreover, if you think you are going to lose, you'll lose.
Toshihiko Seko
#38. You must learn to take a step back and visualize the whole piece. If you focus only on the thread given to you, you lose sight of what it can become.
Colleen Houck
#39. I did not do it for you, sire." Gawain was deadly serious now. "Death comes to us and all mortals. I shall still lose you one day. But Logres! The only perfection under heaven would fall if I could not save you.
Suzannah Rowntree
#40. If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge.
Muhammad Ali
#41. You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it.
Nils-Axel Morner
#42. All you have in life is your reputation: you may be very rich, but if you lose your good name, then you'll never be happy. The thought will always lurk at the back of your mind that people don't trust you.
Richard Branson
#43. Winning is based to a certain extent upon personal power. If you have enough personal power you tend to win. If you don't, you tend to lose.
Frederick Lenz
#44. Even if you lose love, it's never really gone. It stays in you forever. The risks of love are always worth it.
Karina Halle
#45. He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.
Marcus Aurelius
#46. If you fight you might lose, if you don't you have already lost.
Bertolt Brecht
#47. You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all ... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.
Luis Bunuel
#48. Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It's about building a global brand - not selling four more bottles of Pinot Grigio.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#49. It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
Truman Capote
#50. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
Clarence Darrow
#51. If you are truly in love with this world and your life, then you will lose the sense of angst.
Debasish Mridha
#52. You don't want to lose the foreign feel of a book entirely, but for me the prime requisite is to get it sounding good in English. If it sounds clumsy, readers will pounce on it of course.
Anthea Bell
#54. If you can win an argument by stretching your lips for a smile, why open your mouth and lose it.
Sukant Ratnakar
#55. 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
#56. If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.
William Zinsser
#57. The big story today, Barack Obama was accused of insulting Sarah Palin when he criticized Republican policies by saying, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. Political experts say that if Obama keeps insulting Palin, he could lose the election and win a job at MSNBC.
Conan O'Brien
#58. If you're a movie star, you get the girl, you lose the girl, and then you get her back. But if you're a character like me, you lose the girl, then you get another one, then you get another one, then you lose them all, then you lose your life.
Michael Caine
#59. Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.
Albert Schweitzer
#60. Don't you know that if you deny the truth about yourself you lose your soul?
Ken Follett
#61. Investing is a negative game emotionally. If you're playing for the emotional satisfaction, you're bound to lose, because what feels good is often the wrong thing to do. When all the criteria are in balance, do the thing you least want to do.
William Eckhardt
#62. 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
#63. If your goal is to lose 10 pounds, you may wake up each day with failure in mind because the goal is hard to reach, and you are progressing only by small amounts. It takes up all your willpower. I recommend that instead of a goal, you have a system.
Scott Adams
#64. You can't lose the game. You can't go wrong. It's not part of the plan. There is no way not to get where you are going. There's no way to miss your destination. If God is your target, you're in luck, because God is so big, you can't miss.
Neale Donald Walsch
#65. I know you love me, but I don't know why. I look at you and I just can't get why it's me. Every time I get my balance, I lose it again. Because it shouldn't be me, and I think it'd kill me if you ever figured that out.
J.D. Robb
#66. This is me.'" He handed her the precious scrap of paper. 'Call me or I'll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it's not a competition. You don't lose if you phone first.
David Nicholls
#67. 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
#68. If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always.
Geneen Roth
#69. Faith is like a muscle. If you didn't use it, you lose it.
A.C. Kret
#70. 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
#71. If the worst happens, if you lose and fail, but you still celebrate coming second because you've given it a red hot go. There is no need to fear failure.
Anh Do
#72. What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.
Terry Pratchett
#73. Hang on to the inner body, let it be the anchor, then you're present. If they say something challenging and you lose it again, pause, and anchor again. Practice, practice, continuous practice-becaus e when you're in touch with the inner body, spaciousness arises.
Eckhart Tolle
#74. You must not lose confidence in God because you lost confidence in your pastor. If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand.
Francis Schaeffer
#75. If you're not doing what is best for your body, you are the one who lose.
Julius Erving
#76. I think the writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams. If you don't do anything with it, you lose it.
Joy Williams
#77. I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to win.
Katarina Witt
#78. And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die?
Garth Risk Hallberg
#79. You have to stop this. I don't want to lose you too. If you have to make a revolution, Make a small revolution.
Judy Budnitz
#80. You have to try to push yourself to the limit. You can't worry about making a mistake. If you worry about it, you'll lose.
Jean-Sebastien Giguere
#81. You had a bet. You couldn't lose a bet. If you had a choice between me and winning, you'll choose winning every time. It's still true.
Jennifer Echols
#82. Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.
Jesse Ventura
#83. You have to keep the recording process open. If you make too many decisions before you go in, you can lose out on those serendipitous moments that can really make a record, that I think are always required in the making of a really good record.
James Mercer
#84. You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose,
Jeremy Lin
#85. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi
#86. Wanting to win is what keeps the trade on, If you win, you lose the trade.
Auliq Ice
#87. Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.
A.S. Byatt
#88. Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#89. No use gambling if you can't lose your head once in a while.
Larry Merchant
#90. 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
#91. The math shows that you should always keep playing. But if you follow this strategy, you will eventually lose everything. Some problems are better avoided than solved. Always
Brian Christian
#92. Set up rules for when you will "give" not lend money. Never lend. My people know that I'll help with college. I'll help if they lose they job thu no fault of their own.
Michelle Singletary
#93. 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
#94. On ambition, goal setting and competition - it doesn't matter if you lose, but you can't win if you don't play the game.
Aaron Lauritsen
#95. Look for wars to trim transition times. If you decide to do something, do it. You can lose thirty minutes or more puttering around the house, putting things away, getting distracted, and losing intensity before taking whatever action you decide to take.
Laura Vanderkam
#96. If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exsists.
Blaise Pascal
#97. You have to discriminate.If everything is beautiful,then we lose the meaning of the world to begin with.Beauty implies exceptionalism.
K.J. Kilton
#98. Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence.
Dawn French
#99. I have plenty of time... if I am not wise... I could lose it like the games in which you gamble.
Deyth Banger
#100. You could have a lot of money at your fingertips, the finest education and intellectual knowledge, but if you are governed by fear none of that will matter. You will remain tied to dead ideas and stale strategies. You will not be able to adapt. You will lose what you have.
Robert Greene
