Top 100 Loses Quotes
#1. We need to deprogram ourselves. I know for sure that you can't give what you don't have. If you allow yourself to be depleted to the point where your emotional and spiritual tank is empty and you're running on fumes of habit, everybody loses. Especially you.
Oprah Winfrey
#2. Eight and a half miles can be covered in minutes in a car on an expressway, but what does a man see? What he gains in time he loses in benefit to his body and mInd.
Richard Proenneke
#3. The average man," explained the late Dr. Ernst Jokl, "loses fifty percent of his muscle mass between the ages of eighteen and sixty-five.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#4. Difficulties, opposition, criticism-these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm and I begin to wonder what I should do about it.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
#5. One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.
Ayn Rand
#6. Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished.
Alastair Reynolds
#7. As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.
Dean Smith
#8. The pessimist looks down and hits his head. The optimist looks up and loses his footing. The realist looks forward and adjusts his path accordingly.
Robert Kirkman
#9. Originality is definitely missing from EDM. There are people looking for it and exploring but I feel it's so big now it is just getting milked. House music is losing all its melody as it becomes more about how dirty the drop is and how energetic it is. It loses touch with what music really is.
Avicii
#10. Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.
J. William Schickel
#11. Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.
Criss Jami
#12. I lost points for picking The Hulk. They can look at me as though I'm crazy all they want; when Bruce Banner loses control and fucking roars? My nipples go tight.
Kristen Callihan
#13. Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#14. Who can compute what the world loses in the multitude of promising intellects combined with timid characters, who dare not follow out any bold, vigorous, independent train of thought, lest it should land them in something which would admit of being considered irreligious or immoral?
John Stuart Mill
#15. When change loses its magic, then there really isn't anything left to live for.
Tommy Wallach
#17. Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.
John Oliver
#18. Be optimistic like a flower. A flower never loses her optimism, and will bloom with all of her beauty despite tremendous adversity.
Debasish Mridha
#20. I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
Alexandre Dumas
#21. my old world is feeling more and more like a ghost. You know how a dream feels the farther you get from it? It loses its color and intensity and logic. Your emotional connection to it fades.
Blake Crouch
#22. When you are successful every day, success loses its value.
M.F. Moonzajer
#23. The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
Izaak Walton
#24. External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!
Jules Verne
#25. If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
Peter Handke
#26. A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.
Milan Kundera
#27. Each year the winning team of the Super Bowl loses some ground (yardage) throughout the game. Yet they always keep their minds fixed on the goal, push through the opposition, and, as a result, advance to victory in the end.
Lisa Morrone
#28. Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both
Aesop
#29. Whether Pacquiao loses in the first round, whether he knocks out Mayweather in the first round, it's still going to be the biggest fight in history,
Marvin Hagler
#30. The culture of power versus the power of culture," he quoted. "One side always loses.
Ausma Zehanat Khan
#32. A Candle never Loses any of its Light while Lighting up another candle.
Rumi
#33. People make promises that they have every intention of keeping at the time but when it comes to cashing in, suddenly the promise loses all value.
Mercy Cortez
#34. If a person loses hope, they have lost everything. (I tried to put this one in the earlier quotes section, but it never loaded properly.)
Dennis Moulton
#35. One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.
Anita Brookner
#36. When a long-term trend loses it's momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise. It is easy to see why that should be so: the trend-following crowd is disoriented.
George Soros
#37. As a man begins to understand the sacrifices he must make to live the life he dreams of, he often loses his courage for such a life.
Josie Sigler
#38. Politics is about who wins and loses. The rest is of marginal interest.
Sean Wilentz
#39. Homo Sapiens Loses Control Can humans go on running the world and giving it meaning? How do biotechnology and artificial intelligence threaten humanism? Who might inherit humankind, and what new religion might replace humanism?
Yuval Noah Harari
#40. Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of
Northrop Frye
#41. A church that loses its distinctiveness is a church that has nothing distinctive with which to engage the culture. A worldly church is of no good to the world.
Russell D. Moore
#42. The idea is, when a man receives a gift from another, his heart becomes impure, he becomes low, he loses his independence, he becomes bound and attached.
Swami Vivekananda
#43. No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
George Bernard Shaw
#45. A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.
Ernest Gellner
#46. Sacrifice demands the surrender of things we cherish above all else. Only out of the agony of those loses can a new resolution be born. An undying devotion to a cause greater than one's self, and a moral duty to see a journey through to its absolute completion.
Emily Thorne
#47. AT&T sucks. There's no excuse for being in downtown Los Angeles, and your phone loses service. That's ridiculous.
Blake Shelton
#49. This wasn't strong-willed, fly-by-the-seat-of-her-miniskirt Kate that I'd befriended last year. You think you know a girl- and then she goes and loses her virginity at a Mardi Gras party and goes soft.
Lauren Kate
#50. I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.
Giacomo Casanova
#51. My boyfriend loses his virginity, and, oh, who's that looking on?
It's a rabbit.
Stephanie Perkins
#52. I gain my freedom on the day the moon loses her daughter, if that occurs in a week when two Mondays come together. I await it with patience.
Neil Gaiman
#53. When the soul betrays itself and loses the blessed and longed-for fervor, let it carefully investigate the reason for losing it. And let it arm itself with all its longing and zeal against whatever caused this. For the former fervor can return only through the same door through which it was lost.
John Climacus
#54. How catastrophic is it when the church herself becomes secularized and expressive individualism sits in the driver's seat in the church's life and mission. When the church has lost connection with Christ her living head, she loses her soul.
Harold L. Senkbeil
#56. Through the eclipse of large areas of the self, by repression and inhibition as well as by idealization and externalization, the individual loses sight of himself; he feels, if he does not actually become, like a shadow without weight and substance.
Karen Horney
#57. Coyote never loses. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?
Patricia Briggs
#58. When a bird flies too high, it loses its song. -- Old Chinese Proverb
Rebecca Yount
#59. Forcing him to talk about feelings all the time will not only make you seem needy, it will eventually make him lose respect. And when he loses respect, he'll pay even less attention to your feelings.
Sherry Argov
#60. The Adversary seldom loses when you play on his playing field. It's called the home court advantage.
Randall Wright
#61. Defeat exists but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle, he is improving the skill with which he wields a sword. He will be able to fight more skilfullly next time.
Paulo Coelho
#62. That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.
Marc Webb
#63. Because a soul never truly loses hope until hope has turned to ashes, or has been buried six feet underground.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#64. A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.
Samuel Johnson
#65. You show people playing poker or hacking into a computer; it feels so significant in the script, and then when you see it on the screen, it loses something. But there's something about cooking - food being prepared is incredibly captivating. It became just a fun box of tools to use as a director.
Jon Favreau
#66. A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.
Emile M. Cioran
#67. The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural ... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.
Wassily Kandinsky
#68. When we see only what we want to see in the Bible, it loses all power to transform us.
Jim Cymbala
#69. I think it must be one of those things where no one's wrong and everybody loses.
Elizabeth Langston
#70. And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it, and he probably never would.
Haruki Murakami
#71. Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to agree about everything. Reconciliation focuses on the relationship, while resolution focuses on the problem. When we focus on reconciliation, the problem loses significance and often becomes irrelevant.
Rick Warren
#72. A palm-leaf carriage should move slowly, or else it loses its dignity.
Sei Shonagon
#74. It is all fun and games until a sore loser loses or someone accuses someone of cheating.
R.K. Cowles
#75. One loses one's eye in the lanes of sea phosphorescence & the Mississippi of stars streaming across the heavens.
David Mitchell
#76. The man who loses the boy is a sad and serious man.
Nora Roberts
#77. Coffee it is best to buy by the bag, as it improves by keeping. Let it hang in the bag, in a dry place, and it loses its rank smell and taste.
Catharine Beecher
#78. There's a joke in economics about the drunk who loses his keys in the street but only looks for them under the lightposts. When asked why, he says, 'because that's where the light is.' That's the problem with the deficit.
Christina Romer
#79. Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living.
Gao Xingjian
#80. The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
Democritus
#81. When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model.
Vincent Van Gogh
#82. When an actor doesn't face a conflict, he loses confidence in himself. I always want to have a struggle because I believe it will help me accomplish more.
John Garfield
#83. When you do the thing you fear, the thing loses its power to scare.
Martha Beck
#84. I'm always saying a mother never loses her peach pit instinct. Even with a grown son, you have to stop yourself from sticking out your hand when your child finishes a piece of fruit.
Joshua Henkin
#85. There comes a day when every girl loses the stars in her eyes. And then she can see clearly.
Josephine Angelini
#86. There is something so sexy about a man so in control of himself and everything around him that it makes you just want to do things to him then watch as he loses control over you
Kitty Berry
#87. There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.
Frederic Bastiat
#88. In my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
Bobby Fischer
#89. It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up.
P.G. Wodehouse
#90. The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.
Aristotle.
#91. I wonder if there's a secret current that connects people who have lost something. Not in the way that everyone loses something, but in the way that undoes your life, undoes your self, so that when you look at your face it isn't yours anymore.
Nina LaCour
#92. When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon
#93. The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
Anthony Trollope
#94. When a beginner wins he feels brilliant and invincible Then he takes wild risk and loses everything.
Alexander Elder
#95. To be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender ...
Rebecca Solnit
#96. He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.
Mahatma Gandhi
#97. It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#99. One can realise a thing in a single moment, but one loses it in the long hours that follow with leaden feet.
Oscar Wilde
#100. Having lost peace, a man loses the guidance of God and he is on the way to destruction.
Sunday Adelaja
