Quotes About Learning How To Lose

#1. Winning is great but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.

Wilma Rudolph

#2. Life is really a travesty of will: it is a parade of learning how to lose people and improve at feigning indifference.

I suspect I shall always fail at this, and fail miserably. I do not know whether that is winning at life or failing at happiness.

Michelle Franklin

#3. Some parents let their young kids win at games, but mine never did.
I don't think it was because they were particularly competitive, they just wanted to teach me a valuable lesson.
Life is mostly just learning how to lose.

Brian K. Vaughan

#4. Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Wilma Rudolph

#5. 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

#6. I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.

Donald Davis

#7. What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

Abraham Verghese

#8. The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.

D.B.C. Pierre

#9. The answer you seek lies in learning to combine the power of reason with the passion of emotion. If you let reason alone control your choices, you lose the power of intuition. If you let emotion control your choices, you will be a slave to every minor tragedy.

Roy Huff

#10. Most Humans lose access to old memories as they acquire new ones. They know how to speak, for instance, but they don't recall learning to speak. They keep what experience has taught them - usually - but lose the experience itself. We

Octavia E. Butler

#11. That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.

Bill Sienkiewicz

#12. Of course we'll win. And even if we were to lose, we'd win at losing.

Criss Jami

#13. Wasn't learning to lose gracefully part of your training?"
"No," she said sourly. "Arobynn told me that second place was just a nice title for the first loser.

Sarah J. Maas

#14. I think there's too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don't really care about. So what happens to students in school is that they eventually lose interest in learning, because they've been forced to learn the required courses, rather than pursing their passion.

Jack Canfield

#15. Win or lose, good or bad, the experience will change you.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#16. It doesn't matter if you win or lose; what matters is if you learn from it or not.

Mohith Agadi

#17. A willingness to lose one's self in a story was the first step to learning compassion, to appreciating other cultures, to realizing what possibilities the world held for people who kept at life despite the odds.

Jo-Ann Mapson

#18. The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

Bell Hooks

#19. Sure, Manda knew that the tree wasn't actually dead. Mrs. Evans, her teacher, taught her that some trees lose their leaves in the wintertime making them look dead, when they were only sleeping.

Sleeping or not, the big tree was dead to Manda.

Julie B. Campbell

#20. You cannot lose if you have learned one new lesson.
You cannot lose if you have helped one new person.
You cannot lose if you have overcome one new obstacle.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#21. Putting all of my time In learning to care And a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere Want a locket of who Made me lose my perfunctory view Of all that is around And of all that I do.

Rufus Wainwright

#22. 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

#23. I learned to win by learning to lose- that means not being afraid of losing.

Jeff Blatnick

#24. They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.

Idries Shah

#25. To ensure that your work is also a play, I recommend that you develop a personal mission statement. This will help you find what it is to enjoy so much that you lose track of time when you're doing it.

Ken Blanchard

#26. The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

John McEnroe

#27. Do not lose heart. We were made for these times ... For years we have been learning, practicing, been in training for ... and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#28. It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent - lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.

Tove Jansson

#29. Predigested food' should be inscribed over every hall of learning as a warning to all who do not wish to lose their own personalities and their original sense of judgment ...

Emma Goldman

#30. 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

#31. Designing well-written tests still remains a challenging task. Some complex questions may lose clarity causing difficulties in providing meaningful answers. Basically, questions should be designed in such a way that each well-prepared student can easily give a correct answer.

Eraldo Banovac

#32. When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose ... Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult ... is only a slow sewing it shut.

Jodi Picoult

#33. 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

#34. Don't lose heart. Every disappointment is an awakening.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#35. When we go to school, very often, we don't see that passion because the way school is run, the disciplinary nature of it and the rote learning are so, sort of, offensive actually, that children sort of lose that passion more often than not.

Nicholas Negroponte

#36. There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

Samuel Johnson

#37. Lucy: You learn more when you lose
Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!

Charles M. Schulz

#38. Being single is a great thing. Some people can't do it
or are afraid to do it. Many people lose themselves in their relationships and forget who they are instead of learning from the other person and bettering themselves.

Elise Valmorbida

#39. In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.

Salman Khurshid

#40. Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

Lord Chesterfield

#41. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don't lose yourself at happy hour, but don't lose yourself on the corporate ladder, either.

Shauna Niequist

#42. When you are winning too much, sometimes you think you should never lose again. I am learning to lose.

Goran Ivanisevic

#43. Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something

Mary Pickford

#44. The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

#45. With our ignorance, they win, we lose.

Ted Agon

#46. That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

Richard Bach