Top 100 Quotes About Losing
#1. Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.
Carly Fiorina
#2. When you THROW DIRT at people, you're not doing a thing but LOSING GROUND.
Zig Ziglar
#3. It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.
Erica Jong
#4. The better question to ask yourself is: How to correct your diet so you can start losing weight?
Vinnie Tortorich
#5. After losing everything, I went on a quest to find out how money really works, how I could get control of it, and how I could have confidence in handling it.
Dave Ramsey
#6. I believe in winning. It is clean. I like it. I definitely don't believe in losing. It is a bad attitude. It is not necessary to lose, but it does happen once in a while.
Frederick Lenz
#7. The idea of losing someone that you love could throw you into a situation where you could not see your future and you really would be living in the past.
Tom Ford
#8. I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.
Jeanette Winterson
#9. Grow in a way without losing much of our inner childlike deep senses embracing truthful, pure, simple relief of appreciation and gratitude.
Angelica Hopes
#10. We continue to adhere to a common-sense view of risk - how much we can lose and the probability of losing it. While this perspective may seem over simplisticor even hopelessly outdated, we believe it provides a vital clarity about the true risks in investing.
Seth Klarman
#11. There was nothing to be gained by losing his temper. There was never anything to be gained by that.
Joe Abercrombie
#12. Most wars start because someone makes a mistake, and most battles are lost by the losing side rather than won by the victors. I'm not sure if that makes things better or worse. I suppose it depends on which you disapprove of more, malice or stupidity.
K.J. Parker
#13. We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984.
Thurgood Marshall
#14. The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.
Henry Rollins
#15. Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality. It's like they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're losing in Iraq.
Chuck Hagel
#16. With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.
Vince Gill
#17. I mean, was there really a difference between death and losing every ounce of who you are?
Jessica Sorensen
#18. I know it. I feel it. I want it. Loving you is so damn easy that it terrifies me. Not loving you, but the fear of losing it because I'm not good enough.
Lynetta Halat
#19. When you reached the point of losing your reasoning, that's called falling in love. Actually, those who have lost their reasoning chase blindly without thinking about the risks. They run and run like confused wild pigs. That's why, most of the time, they end up getting hurt. -- Sagan
Yuuri Eda
#20. There's no success without failure and no winning without losing.
Pitbull
#21. But I didn't really mind it because I knew that it
takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it to know what
true freedom is.
Lana Del Rey
#22. Things that aren't important, that have nothing to do with winning and losing, don't have to be a rule.
Peter Richmond
#23. It was curious what trying to speak English had done lately to his mind; it reminded him of studying poetry in college, words gaining and losing their meaning, overlapping with images, the curious echo of ideas behind the words people used.
Jess Walter
#24. It's the pausing and the stopping, perhaps going backward and losing some time, not being able to do everything we're supposed to do, that serves the soul. That's the enchantment that feeds the soul.
Thomas Moore
#25. Just because I'm telling a story about a woman losing faith is not my rebellion against what I grew up in. If anything, it really affected the way I approached the story, and in fact, approach everything. I don't judge my characters.
Vera Farmiga
#26. The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of the world.
Lee H. Hamilton
#27. Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.
Jodi Picoult
#28. Look at all the drug busts all over the country. There must be an audience there somewhere. My feeling is that if we're losing the war on drugs, let's do a movie for the enemy.
Tommy Chong
#29. With technology expanding at this ridiculous pace, bit by bit we're losing our humanity and our ability to connect with each other without having electronic media in the middle.
Walter Trout
#30. When everyone else is losing their heads, it is important to keep yours.
Marie Antoinette
#32. Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.
R.H. Blyth
#33. We lose many things simply out of our fear of losing them.
Paulo Coelho
#34. Losing is like my ex-wife ... it's a b****, and it takes a bigger man than me to live with it.
Don Frye
#35. Whatever Arys had been up to recently, it wasn't any saner than what I'd been doing. He was losing it, and I was willing to bet he didn't even realize it. At least I knew I was going mad.
Trina M. Lee
#36. Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.
Brennan Manning
#37. Yes, I'm satisfied, but the problem is you're not, and never will be. You're insecure, afraid of losing everything you've achieved; you don't know how to quit once you're ahead. You'll end up destroying yourself. You're killing our marriage and my love.
Paulo Coelho
#38. What we need more than anything, Amy, is each other. I need you, baby. I need you alive and well, in my bed and in my life. The idea of losing you is torture, but I know you aren't my property. You're the woman who changed me in ways I don't even fully understand.
Lisa Renee Jones
#39. I'll clue you in on a secret: death is not the worst thing that could happen to you. I know we think that; we are the first society ever to think that. It's not worse than dishonor; it's not worse than losing your freedom; its not worse than losing a sense of personal responsibility.
Bill Maher
#40. Many of us are speeding up and skipping over, missing the important as we scan for the urgent. The irony is that in our anxiety toward not missing out, we are losing the most meaningful moments of life.
Jeff Goins
#41. The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.
Isabel Allende
#42. I'm tired of hurting, Lord. I'm tired of being scared. I'm tired of losing.
Dana Mentink
#43. Most people are losing life making money. Soon they are left with lot of money but no life.-RVM
R.v.m.
#45. Love is patient, love is kind, love means slowly losing your mind.
James Marsden
#46. You run the risk of losing anyone who is worth spending time
with, unless you are so paranoid about loss that you choose someone unlosable, somebody who could
not possibly appeal to anybody else at all.
Nick Hornby
#47. I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
Olly Murs
#49. The diverse threats we face are increasingly cyber-based. Much of America's most sensitive data is stored on computers. We are losing data, money, and ideas through cyber intrusions. This threatens innovation and, as citizens, we are also increasingly vulnerable to losing our personal information.
James Comey
#50. Neither winning nor losing means as much to me as knowing the crowd has enjoyed my match. Some players feel that winning is everything and that losing is a disaster. Not me. I want the spectators to take home a good memory ...
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
#51. I always win gentlemen. Even if it looks like I'm losing I'm winning.
J.J. McAvoy
#52. The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
Ted Turner
#53. We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.
Diane Ackerman
#54. Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.
Miep Gies
#55. As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.
Kim Novak
#56. There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you're never going to win big in a mutual fund.
Robert Kiyosaki
#57. I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit and I sold it out. Of all the speculative blunders there are few greater than trying to average a losing game. Always sell what shows you a loss and keep what shows you a profit.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#58. If you're coasting,you're either losing momentum orelse you're headed downhill.
Joan Welsh
#59. Forever means losing count of years.
Toba Beta
#60. People will tell you that this is just the way things go around here when someone is taken with the madness. Sometimes that means losing the May Queen and her convertible too.
Kate Karyus Quinn
#61. One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.
Alexander McCall Smith
#62. When you allow desire, anger and frustration to dominate you, you are losing power.
Frederick Lenz
#63. I've always believed that there's an amazing number of things you can do through a rock'n'roll song and that you can do serious writing in a rock song if you can somehow do it without losing the beat,
Lou Reed
#64. Keep your standards even when everyone around you is losing theirs.
Habeeb Akande
#65. I've tried every which way for writing lyrics - everything from using really bizarre imagery and metaphors, sort of obscuring the facts of what I'm singing about, all the way over to a song like 'Losing My Mind,' where you're just reading my thoughts as they're occurring.
Rivers Cuomo
#66. The balance between the paralysing hurt of losing the people you love and the absolute glorious revelation of finding the one person that makes you happier than you've ever been. Someone who makes you so happy that you stare into your future and finally look forward to it.
Beckie Stevenson
#67. It was something else entirely to sit in a circle and hear their stories firsthand, to listen to strangers spill their guts as they shared how close they had come to losing it all. I knew that would make it all so very, very real.
A Meredith Walters
#68. When I first came to the Eagles, I found a bunch of guys shell-shocked from losing. They had been through some lean years, they just didn't know how to handle the pressure. They were quiet; they kept to themselves. I said, " Hey, this has gotta change. Let's make pressure fun."
Ron Jaworski
#70. Your Soviet players are cheating, losing the games on purpose to my rival, Botvinnik, in order to increase his points on the score. - (to Stalin in Moscow 1936 where he finished in 1st place, 1 point ahead of Botvinnik)
Jose Raul Capablanca
#71. My mother battled cancer for 12 years before losing her fight.
Jenna Morasca
#72. The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don't know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I've been in danger of losing.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#73. women are not thinking about 'having it all,' they're worried about losing it all - their jobs, their children's health, their families' financial stability - because of the regular conflicts that arise between being a good employee and a responsible parent."34
Sheryl Sandberg
#74. We are accustomed to losing things we love and people we adore but that doesn't change the fact that loss hurts.
Abdullah Abu Snaineh
#76. I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.
Paulo Coelho
#77. He kissed and held her like it was the last time, but then again, he always did that, because there had always been that possibility of him losing her.
Daniele Lanzarotta
#78. If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I keep them Risk control is the most important thing in trading. If you have a losing position that is making you uncomfortable, the solution is very simple: Get out, because you can always get back in.
Paul Tudor Jones
#79. Her family was a relay team racing toward Tomorrowland, but her father died, and in their shock they kept losing the baton.
Stacy Bierlein
#80. Do I mind losing? No, because losses and wins are just the bricks on the path to success. Both losing and winning are needed to find prosperity.
Jarod Kintz
#81. There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.
Jean De La Bruyere
#82. Going to the theater, spending tons of money, people are losing money doing that. I'm really interested in my kinds of movies being seen as many people as possible on a TV.
Mark Duplass
#83. A duel in which you're 100% sure of victory becomes just another boring exercise. When you give in your 100%, but you aren't certain of victory, yet aren't scared of losing, it becomes much more interesting.
Ufuoma Apoki
#84. Love will hurt. If it doesn't hurt you are not doing it right. To truly love someone you must open yourself up to the pain that would be losing them.
Teresa Mummert
#85. At the heart of each spiritual tradition is the question of how to be in the world without losing what matters, and whether living an awakened life is of any use if we don't bring what matters to bear on the world.
Mark Nepo
#86. Owning a business is NOT about working your ass off for the sake of trying to squeeze out a living. It is NOT about making tons of money at the expense of losing tons of life. It IS about maximizing life, bettering your life and the lives of others, which, not so ironically, fattens your purse.
Mike Michalowicz
#87. And the days are all dust
and the only thing worse
than losing the trust
of a lover is finding the rust
in their kiss.
Kate Tempest
#88. I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing my parents to AIDS, just having my whole world turned upside-down, there was this feeling inside of me like I was meant for something greater.
Liz Murray
#89. When I left Merrill Lynch, one of the things that upset me the most wasn't losing my job. It was not being able to see those people the following day. It was almost like divorcing 40 people.
Erin Duffy
#90. Sometimes losing everything is the only way to begin.
T.K. Kiser
#91. I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn't about winning or losing. It's about process, keeping it going.
Alber Elbaz
#92. In its extreme form, this fear of losing one's orientation is the fear of psychosis. When persons actually are on the brink of psychosis, they often have an urgent need to seek out some contact with other human beings.
Rollo May
#93. But one mustn't underestimate the primal appeal - to lose one's self, lose it utterly. And in losing it be born to the principle of continuous life, outside the prison of mortality and time.
Donna Tartt
#94. I was losing sight of the wolf ahead of me; the one inside me seemed
closer all of a sudden.
Maggie Stiefvater
#96. If the individuals who make up a group have personal egos, and their identities lie in these egos, then their egoic identities will shift to the group. It might look as if they are losing their personal egos, but the ego simply shifts to the group.
Eckhart Tolle
#97. People go through challenging moments of losing people and of having their life threatened from illness and real grief. But they get through it. And that's the testament to the human spirit and it's -we are fragile, but we also are divine.
Sheryl Crow
#98. My heart faltered, overcome by its frightened, almost frenzied beating because of something I had just lost, or was on the point of losing for ever. My fingers grasped at his hand with such violence that no force in the world, no matter how great, could take it away from me.
Nawal El Saadawi
#99. There's only winning and losing, and in our society, as in all societies, there's the person that's doing the winning, or there's the person that's facilitating the winning.
Katt Williams
#100. Why isn't there a book about someone losing their faith and it being a beautiful experience?
Julia Sweeney
