Top 93 If You Lose Yourself Quotes
#1. If you lose yourself, then no one's going to respect or pay attention to anything you have.
Katie Uhlaender
#2. You may have what it takes to be successful, but if you lose yourself in someone else's priorities or societal expectations, you will be judged not by your potential but rather by your history
Lois P Frankel
#4. Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself? I reach for Stargirl and she's gone. I'm not me anymore.
Jerry Spinelli
#5. A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really.
Richie Sambora
#6. I don't expect everybody to like me. If you try to please everybody, by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself.
Nancy Grace
#7. Eat and drink and sit with the mighty, and make yourself agreeable to them; for from the good you will learn what is good, but if you mix with the bad you will lose the intelligence which you already have.
Plato
#8. One thing you must never lose is courage. If you believe in the goal you are striving for, you will be courageous. There are many difficult times ahead, but you must keep your sense of humor, work through the tough situations, and enjoy yourself!
Shigesato Itoi
#9. Your life is your own, your glory is your glory, but you will lose it if you keep it for yourself. Grasp it for the sake of others ...
N.D. Wilson
#10. You can't lose yourself if you've never even found yourself.
Micalea Smeltzer
#11. Be yourself. If you water yourself down to please people or to fit in or to not offend anyone, you lose the power, the passion, the freedom and the joy of being uniquely you. It's much easier to love yourself when you are being yourself.
Don Coppersmith
#12. I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.
Ralph Waite
#13. If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.
Dalai Lama
#14. If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.
David Levithan
#15. Don't get discouraged, and think positive all the time. Don't get down on yourself if you lose out a couple of times. It's just a lot of hard work.
Larisa Oleynik
#16. Macarius said also, 'If you are stirred to anger when you want to reprove someone, you are gratifying your own passions. Do not lose yourself in order to save another.
Benedicta Ward
#17. Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening ... A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you hang it on him a little bit ... but if you lose as a tennis player, you have no one to blame but yourself, and that's a different beast.
Marc Blucas
#18. If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.
Dave Chappelle
#19. If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be anchored in the Now. You won't lose yourself in the external world, and you won't lose yourself in your mind. Thoughts and emotions, fears and desires may still be there to some extent, but they won't take you over.
Eckhart Tolle
#20. It's great if you can help others, but seriously ... don't lose YOURSELF in the process!
Karen Gibbs
#21. When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it.
Marcus Aurelius
#22. It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you've sold out your Muse, and your Muse is you, the best part of yourself, where your finest and only true work comes from.
Steven Pressfield
#23. If you won't join them," Roland said to
Daniel, "why not join us? From what I can
tell, there is no worse Hell than what you put yourself through every time you lose her.
Lauren Kate
#24. If it's dive-bombing you from the air, bury yourself in the sand. It might lose sight of you. Also, no one likes to eat food covered in sand. No one.
Andrew Shaffer
#25. Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.
Ernest Hemingway,
#26. Alcohol. It sucks the life out of a face and replaces it with its own dumb shine of inanity. It's up to you. If you want to lose yourself, have a drink.
Kevin Brooks
#27. If you focus too much on what others say about you, you lose sight of what you ought to be thinking about yourself.
Heather Lyons
#28. Because if you are fragmented and uncertain it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt. Survival in a desert, then, requires that you lose this fragmentation, and fast. It is not a mystical experience, or rather, it is dangerous to attach these sorts of words to it.
Robyn Davidson
#29. In voiceover, you have to restrain yourself when you're acting in the sound booth in front of the microphone. If you lean left or you lean right, you're going to lose the voice. Yet you yourself become animated when you're doing the part. So you'll see a lot of flailing arms, but a very still face.
Brendan Dooling
#30. Listen.
I will lose myself
if it means I can find you.
Alaska Gold
#31. I learned that once you make a decision, you need to see it through. If you don't, you'll lose faith in yourself, and that's when you'll let other people make decisions for you.
Katie Kacvinsky
#32. As Xenophon said, your obstacles are not rivers or mountains or other people; your obstacle is yourself. If you feel lost and confused, if you lose your sense of direction, if you cannot tell the difference between friend and foe, you have only
Robert Greene
#33. You must lose yourself if you want to be successful in animation and be the character.
Lucille Bliss
#34. Love people with all sincere attention, but don't overdo it as if you are not special. Don't lose yourself in the process of loving other people. Remember, you are special too!
Israelmore Ayivor
#35. All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered foolishness. If you're a good warrior you will not blame yourself for this, but neither will you allow your mistakes to repeat themselves.
Paulo Coelho
#36. There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.
Maggie Smith
#37. Don't lose yourself in the process of caring for others. Don't overdo it as if you don't need any care to give to yourself. It's true, you are special too!
Israelmore Ayivor
#38. If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
Don DeLillo
#39. If you have not lost yourself, you cannot find yourself! First, you must lose yourself, then you will find yourself! First, darkness, then, light! First, confusion, and then clarity!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#40. If you lose, it hurts, but as long as you have fought hard, you can still feel good about yourself.
Ivan Lendl
#41. Men haven't changed: they love the thrill of the chase, and if you hand yourself over on a plate they'll lose interest.
Jane Green
#42. There's no substitute for hard work. If you work hard and prepare yourself, you might get beat, but you'll never lose.
Nancy Lieberman
#43. Do you hear yourself? You're a hundred and forty. A member of the Bloodkin Triad. Not a ... a ... boy. His mother was having trouble forming words. She was stuck between human and dragon. She wanted fire, but if she shifted, she'd lose her ability to argue with him. How terrible for her.
Erin Kellison
#44. There are struggles you cannot win, but a man can meet his own heart if value is found in loss. Give yourself permission to cry.
Dan Groat
#45. The terrifying experience and obsession of death, when preserved in consciousness, becomes ruinous. If you talk about death, you save part of yourself. But at the same time, something of your real self dies, because objectified meanings lose the actuality they have in consciousness.
Emil M. Cioran
#46. How can you be lonely? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely ...
Joseph Delaney
#47. If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.
Napoleon Hill
#48. If your relationship is draining your energy, making you lose yourself and taking your attention away from God, then you are not in a relationship but a cult. You are busy creating an idol (mini-God) for yourself.
Kemi Sogunle
#49. If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself. Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are.
RZA
#50. Don't give up the fight to stay alive and even if you have to, find the reason in another's pain if they lose you. If not for yourself, then those around who care like I do...One day you'll see the clear blue....
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#51. If you fight yourself, you will lose, and fighting leaves scares.
Michelle Hodkin
#52. I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you lose the thread of the character.
Willem Dafoe
#53. Even if you lost something you didn't lose yourself. You just have to stay positive, keep the faith, and keep moving forward.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#54. Count calories if you like, but go ahead and gorge yourself on books. What have you got to lose but a small mind?
Robin R. Meyers
#55. The problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose.
Caitlin Moran
#56. If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.
Edward Wilmot Blyden
#57. If you love too much, you lose yourself.
If you love too little, you never find yourself.
Janet Gallagher Nestor
#58. I think you can lose yourself in any creative activity - if you enjoy your job or enjoy a task, you can lose yourself in that.
Maria Bamford
#59. Don't ever lose yourself in somebody else. It's hard to remember who you used to be if they disappear.
S.L. Scott
#60. If someone had to lose weight, I would tell that person to lose weight. Lose some weight, why can't you take care of yourself. When I say this, the person might think, 'Look who's talking,' but I would reply, 'I'm a boy and you're a girl.'
Shindong
#61. If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest places. I think it must be a kind of built-in radar, which often takes me to places that are either peculiarly quiet or peculiar in a quiet sort of way.
Wim Wenders
#62. The process of life, towards the whole truth can only be covered, by absolutely dropping yourself. You can only merge into the whole, if you prepare to lose yourself.
Roshan Sharma
#63. If you can't,can't be yourself what are you living for? If you can't, can't be yourself you're gonna lose it all
Enrique Iglesias
#64. You can be surrounded by people all the time, but you feel so alone. I think that's when you can lose perspective and lose control of what you're doing. It's almost as if you have no fear and you don't really care about what happens to yourself.
Ladyhawke
#65. If you're going to keep the music in you, Jonah, you've got to play a little bit every day purely for pleasure. Otherwise, you'll lose the joy of it, and if you lose the joy, you won't sound good to those who know piano - or to yourself.
Dean Koontz
#66. You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose,
Jeremy Lin
#67. 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
#68. And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die?
Garth Risk Hallberg
#69. 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
#70. Don't you know that if you deny the truth about yourself you lose your soul?
Ken Follett
#71. 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
#72. Lose it for yourself, if you want to, but not for anyone else.
Jessica Morgan
#73. If you believe you will succeed, there is always a chance you might. But if you believe that you will fail, then you will always fail. Never allow yourself to lose before you begin.
Jon Skovron
#74. Would anyone else ever find him attractive? Would he be able to trust them? Would he ever make love again, or even want to? And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die? (And
Garth Risk Hallberg
#75. If you want to find money, focus on people. If you want to lose people, focus on money.
Rob Liano
#76. Still, being alone doesn't mean you have to be miserable. In that sense it's different from losing something. You've still got yourself, even if you lose everything else. You've got to have faith in yourself and not get down just because you're on your own.
Yoko Ogawa
#77. Never ever get mad at yourself if you miss a ball, lose a point, or double fault.
Sally Huss
#78. My mom always says, 'If you don't believe in something, you'll lose yourself completely.'
Hilary Duff
#79. Ask yourself where you're complicit in other people's stories. If you like them, stay in those stories. If you don't, don't. You're not bound to any of it, though remember that if you want to get rid of the bad aspects of something you'll probably have to lose the good aspects, too.
Jason Louv
#80. You can't keep bearing all the weight. In the end, if you try to save everyone you'll only lose yourself.
Joe Hart
#81. The world will lose something if you do not find yourself, if you do not answer the question "Who am I
Sunday Adelaja
#82. You lose the balance of your sould if you not learn to take care of yourself.
John O'Donohue
#83. Bet on yourself! You never lose if you bet on yourself!
Greg Plitt
#84. My heart's no less bulletproof than yours. Believe me. But if you feel like you have nothing, then you have nothing to lose, right? Give yourself a shot at being my . . . different.
Gail McHugh
#85. Master Sun So it is said that if you know others and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know others but know yourself, you win one and lose one; if you do not know others and do not know yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.
Sun Tzu
#86. The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.
Bernie Siegel
#87. It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle. - Sun Tzu
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#88. Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind.
Bruce Lee
#89. If you're starting out or trying to get to the next level, surround yourself with people who keep you motivated and energized - people who inspire you to achieve your best every day. When you do this, you can't lose.
Anthony Famiglietti
#90. Being yourself is the meat and potatoes of mothering, and if you are forever copying someone else's way you are apt to lose touch with your own truth.
Janet P. Penley
#91. But if you kept thinking about a fight you'd lost, Mom said, you were programming yourself to lose again.
Karen Russell
#92. Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
Michel De Montaigne
#93. If it's danger you seek you can go to war, blow the whistle on someone powerful, piss off someone unhinged, walk in a field during a lightning storm, tease a rattlesnake, or lose yourself in the right embrace. Some people live for it, others suffer in spite of it.
Donna Lynn Hope
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