
Top 100 Lose That Quotes
#1. You're not afraid to take risks." "Neither are you, Diana. Don't ever lose that quality. Once a person stops pushing and growing, she is as dead in the spirit as if she were dead in the flesh.
Kate Elliott
#2. If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#3. Don't be in a hurry to grow up. Hold on to being a boy as long as you can, because once you lose that magic, you're always begging to find it again.
Robert McCammon
#4. I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.
Gabriel Byrne
#5. And it's so easy because you become so self-conscious and so intellectual and so analytical about it in the long run that you lose that wonderful sort of ego that you have that says, 'Oh, goddamn it, I don't care; I love it anyway; I'm going to do it!
David McCullough
#6. I do want it. I want you to stay. Time and disease are taking you from me. You've told me, made it clear, this is the only way I can keep you close. I will not lose that.
Victoria Schwab
#7. Everything I do comes from the clubs. If I lose that, I'm done.
David Guetta
#8. When we lose that sense of the possible we lose it fast.
Joan Didion
#9. When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.
Jodi Picoult
#10. Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.
Frederick Lenz
#11. My goal is to never lose. That may not be realistic, but I'm going to try.
Jennie Finch
#12. I hope the World War II generation doesn't lose that quality that made them so appealing: their modesty, and the way they are always looking forward and seldom back.
Tom Brokaw
#13. I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.
Richard Powers
#14. Smiling despair. No solution, but constantly exercising an authority over myself that I know is useless. The essential thing is not to lose oneself, and not to lose that part of oneself that lies sleeping in the world.
Albert Camus
#15. It is good to be different, because difference is great; that's what this music is based on. But lose that energy between the audience and the players, and you have nothing.
Andrew Hill
#16. I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague, nagging sense that there are an overwhelming number of things to be done, all of which are on the brink of being forgotten.
Mary Roach
#17. I've learned to be more reserved, watch what I'm saying; I got in a little bit of trouble. People tell me 'Never lose that, never lose that,' but then I get in trouble so I have to lose it. I'm trying to keep a little bit; I'm never going to lose who I am, I just gotta tone it down a little bit.
Shia Labeouf
#18. How you gather, manage and use intel in life determines whether you win or lose. That's the # 1 rule for the mavericks in business.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#19. ...may I never lose that terror that keeps me brave
Audre Lorde
#20. Well, when you do something like Rocky which is indefinable somehow, it always becomes difficult to lose that.
Richard O'Brien
#21. You are only one boy, with one voice ... If you keep trying to be a choir, you'll lose that voice, and then who will hear you?
Neal Shusterman
#22. Even if you are perfect, the world isn't. The secret is to know that the deck is stacked, that you will lose, that your hands or judgment will slip, and yet still struggle to win...
Paul Kalanithi
#23. I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.
Karl Lagerfeld
#24. If you love your dad, it's tough when he dies. If you don't like your dad, it's tough when he dies. Because you lose that guy. Whatever you didn't get, you miss. And what you did get, you miss.
Jimmy Iovine
#25. When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart ...
Abraham Verghese
#26. Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that, but it's impossible.
Pete Docter
#27. When you suffer and lose, that does not mean you are being disobedient to God. In fact, it might mean you're right in the center of His will. The path of obedience is often marked by times of suffering and loss.
Charles R. Swindoll
#28. I've finally gotten to a point in my life where I'm not afraid to speak. Where my shadow no longer haunts me. And I don't want to lose that freedom
not again. I can't go backward. I'd rather be shot dead screaming for justice than die alone in a prison of my own making.
Tahereh Mafi
#29. Leaders thrive when they feel creatively empowered, when they trust the people around them, when their confidence is swelling. Leaders make mistakes when they lose that same confidence, when they're fretting about their power base, when they're reacting instead of acting.
Bill Simmons
#30. Claire, I don't want to lose that look. I promise, I'll never demand it again ... I don't want that. I want what I have today. I'm concerned that, when all my confessions are out - it'll be gone.
Anthony
Aleatha Romig
#31. But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that.
Dennis Brown
#32. Children are loving, they don't gossip, they don't complain, they're just openhearted. They're ready for you. They don't judge. They don't see things by way of color. They're very child-like. That's the problem with adults: they lose that child-like quality.
Michael Jackson
#33. Twelve days wil be heaps of time. You don't want to over-reherse these things, otherwise you lose that rough edge
Michael Gerard Bauer
#34. Most people settle for connection, because love's too scary. They don't want to lose that feeling, that super high is too crushing so they settle for the comfort of connection.
Tony Robbins
#35. Ten minutes after you lose that last game, you start working on next season.
Don Meyer
#36. This is how you survive the unsurvivable, this is how you lose that which you cannot bear to lose, this is how you reinvent yourself, overcome your abusers, fulfill your ambitions and meet the love of your life: by following what is true, no matter where it leads you.
Augusten Burroughs
#37. When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you ... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.
Ernest Hemingway,
#38. None of us really has anything to lose. That makes it easier to give away.
Richard Bachman
#39. The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.
Jon Bon Jovi
#40. Love isn't something you can turn off. When it happens, it takes a little piece of who you are. I think sometimes people keep fighting because they're more afraid to lose that piece of them, rather than lose the person they love.
Vi Keeland
#41. You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.
Dan Marino
#42. Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.
Dalai Lama
#43. I grabbed his shirt, stopping him. He looked down at me mildly confused. I hesitated, and then smiled nervously. "Stay with me. Just for a little while. I don't want to be alone." I hated to admit that I was scared, but I was. I felt safe with him, and I didn't want to lose that feeling. He
Ella Price
#44. When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness ... I've lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.
Mike Tyson
#45. I'm always a little innately shy when I first talk to a girl, and I think I always will be! But I think that's a good thing. You don't want to lose that.
Dylan O'Brien
#46. To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking.
Bill Nye
#47. Power is a fickle mistress, easy to seduce, but even easier to lose. That's how it works. One moment she is your closest confidant, whispering the secrets of the universe into your ear; the next, she is your vilest oppressor - and once her ears close to your plights you are well and truly screwed.
Nenia Campbell
#48. If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving ...
Isabel Allende
#49. Why must man not marry?" "He cannot marry. He cannot marry," he said angrily. "If he is to lose everything, he should not place himself in a position to lose that. He should not place himself in a position to lose. He should find things he cannot lose.
Ernest Hemingway,
#50. Children have a primal need to know who they are, to love and be loved by the two people whose physical union brought them here. To lose that connection, that sense of identity, is to experience a wound that no child-support check or fancy school can ever heal.
David Blankenhorn
#51. If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
W. Somerset Maugham
#52. I think in the sciences there is still the general belief that America is still tops. For America to lose that, I think, would be very bad, not just speaking as a scientist myself. I think it would be very bad for the morale of the whole country.
Chen-Ning Yang
#53. Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out ...
David Bowie
#54. She loved him, more than she could ever find words for, but this love he felt for her was not quite the same. It wasn't so much stronger, as more demanding, more insistent. As though he feared he would lose that which he had finally won.
Jean M. Auel
#55. Children are born as individuals. If we fail to see that, if we see them as clay to be molded in any shape we like, the tougher ones will fight back and end up spiteful and wild, while the less strong will lose that uniqueness they were born with.
Melvin Konner
#56. Every year that goes by, I lose that much more motivation to play rock.
Billy Corgan
#57. Act as though this one patient is the only person in the world - because to do otherwise is to lose that one, too. One at a time, that's all you can do. And you learn not to despair over all the ones you can't help, but only to do what you can.
Diana Gabaldon
#58. I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that.
Catherine Hardwicke
#59. We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing - by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.
M.H. Abrams
#60. People who say Jane or talk about Janeites revolt me. The sort that can walk with kings and not lose that common touch. 'Miss Austen to you' is what I feel inclined to say.
Angela Thirkell
#61. If you have nothing, you have nothing to lose. That's how I'd wanted my life to be.
Marshall Thornton
#62. I learned to win by learning to lose- that means not being afraid of losing.
Jeff Blatnick
#63. No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.
Lin Yutang
#64. I grew up in a very simple home, a very simple background, and to be able to do what I'm able to do today, I'm very honored. I don't think I'll ever lose that perspective, and I don't want to.
Jimmie Johnson
#65. I'm crying for all the things we lose that we cannot get back.
Jodi Picoult
#66. I was thinking of how, when we think of loss in our life, how our sense of 'home' was the first thing to go. You know, we lose that place of childhood innocence, of feeling protected. And so many of us spend the rest of our lives trying to reclaim that place called home, that life made simple again.
Tabitha Vohn
#67. A part of me didn't want to need anyone, miss anyone, even love anyone, It'd always been me against the world, and I didn't altogether enjoy that I was starting to lose that feeling. It usually meant that something awful was going to happen
Tijan
#68. My point is, it takes a special person to cry over a book. It shows compassion as well as imagination...Don't ever lose that
Alex Gino
#69. I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.
Jodi Picoult
#70. Sage made me complete. He made me happy. He was as much a part of me as my own body. How could anyone lose that and still exist? - Clea Raymond
Hilary Duff
#71. Every child likes to take a pencil to make a mark. Everybody makes beautiful things when they are three, four, or five years old. Most people lose that spontaneity; I think that always happens. Some are able to win a second spontaneity.
Alvaro Siza
#72. You reminded me what it feels like to love. You made me fall in love and, fuck, I don't want to lose that. I don't want to lose you.
Nyrae Dawn
#73. If something inspires you, try and hold on to that inspiration because if you lose that inspiration, what do you have left? If music is your inspiration and it brings you together with friends, family or loved ones and that's the core of it, then always have it. Always draw from it.
Charlie Benante
#74. I used to be very quick, I would be able to leave the room and be back before you noticed. When you can't do that anymore you need to change the style of how you do things. But I'm very interested in life and you don't want to lose that.
Jack Nicholson
#75. The mental game of 'holding out,' not eating for as long as possible, at least for me, was a really unhealthy mental place. I would inevitably lose that battle and eat too much in one sitting and end up really mad at myself.
Alison Sweeney
#76. Don't need your warnings. I don't lose." "That wasn't a warning," he shot back, not taking his eyes off her. "That was a threat." And then he looked at me as he turned to leave. "Watch your back, brother.
Penelope Douglas
#77. I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.
Bryce Courtenay
#78. We've got, not only the Alaskan pipeline is not being built, and that oil, Canada may decide to sell it to China, and we may lose that oil forever.
Rafael Cruz
#79. I would certainly rather the industry not go broke, but if that's what it takes for everyone to acquire some values and lose that sense of entitlement, maybe a little belt-tightening wouldn't be so tragic.
Tim Gunn
#80. I think we've been dulled by capitalism. We're just blobs now - we're so worried about how we can keep paying the lease on the car, the mortgage, the lease on the toaster and all that. You can't really think about much else. If you lose that, you lose the whole lot.
Rupert Everett
#81. It's a shame anyone had to lose that. What a great rivalry.
Mike Tice
#82. If you follow the process of a thought - any thought, not just about art - the thought changes. It has to do with what you can hold in your memory and what you lose. That's an interesting thing to try to paint.
Ross Bleckner
#83. Who ever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.
Martina Navratilova
#84. We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
Abraham Verghese
#85. What if I mess up?"
"Oh, you will. You'll mess up, you'll make mistakes, you'll break things. Some you'll be able to piece together, and others you'll lose. That's all a given. But there's only one thing you have to do for me."
"What's that?"
"Stay alive long enough to mess up again.
Victoria Schwab
#86. I turn, concentrating on Jeb. "No matter what you think happened between the two of us, I love you. We share battle scars and hearts. I don't want to lose that."
He studies my necklaces and the soldered clump of metal at my neck. "Yeah, I see how well you took care of my heart."
A.G. Howard
#87. When I first started out, being from the South and going to New York or Chicago, people kept telling me to get voice lessons and 'lose that stupid accent you got.' And I'm like, 'Well, where I come from, you have the stupid accent.'
Jeff Foxworthy
#88. All you got in life is your honor, man, your own self-image, your own self-respect. If you lose that, or if you give it away or if you sell it, then you ain't got it no more.
Lemmy Kilmister
#89. You lose that sacred-cow status when you lose three straight years.
Joe Dumars
#90. We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.
Geoffrey Wolff
#91. I still do live concerts all over the country - about four a month - with singing and characters and improv. It keeps me limber. I'll never lose that. And comedy is still the bread and butter.
Martin Short
#92. Do not let your thoughts take flight, flutter, and climb. Simply cleave and cling to Christ. It is imperative to remain solely with the Person of Christ. If you have that, you have all; but if you lose that, you have lost all.
Martin Luther
#93. You came into my life. You changed my world. You made me realize I'm capable of loving completely. You're my one. You're it. This is my epic love, and I can't lose that.
Abbi Glines
#94. Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
Rachel Kushner
#95. It's nice when you can ride the inspirational wave, but as a writer, you'll also find how fast you can lose that wave. You must persevere.
Charles Lee
#96. She's mine. And if any of you lay a hand on her, you lose that hand. And then lose your head. And once Feyre is done killing you, then I'll grind your bones to dust.
Sarah J. Maas
#97. Your body doesn't carry you up there. Your mind does. Your body is exhausted hours before you reach the top; it is only through will and focus and drive that you continue to move. If you lose that focus, your body is a dead, worthless thing beneath you.
Beck Weathers
#98. But this - this is a ladder to climb to the stars." Lee's eyes shone. "You can never lose that. It cuts the feet from under weakness and cowardliness and laziness.
John Steinbeck
#99. Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.
George Mason
#100. Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic ... you! As soon as you let doubt creep in
you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.
C.Toni Graham
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