Quotes About Losses

#1. You're all terrified of young people. We remind you of what it was like to have ideals, faith, freedom. We remind you of the losses you've taken as you've grown cynical, numb, disenchanted, compromising the life you imagined.

Stephanie Danler

#2. Everything that is experienced through the five senses is all 'discharge'. It is due to one's merit karmas that everything works according to one's wishes, but he claims, 'I did it' and when one faces losses, he will say, 'God did it' or 'my horoscope is unfavorable'.

Dada Bhagwan

#3. A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.

Andrew Shue

#4. Mostly, she sees the good in the world, the light where there is dark ... She sees beauty where we mostly pass it by. But tonight, she was heavy-hearted. I think sometimes she unfolds all her losses and stares at them, in the dark.

Susan Fletcher

#5. On any given night the stars are endless losses or endless gains. One for the love you experience and one for the love you lose. One for the unfulfilled wish and one for the wish yet to come.

Lawren Leo

#6. I've never been one to look at numbers or think about stuff like that. The only numbers I worry about are wins and losses-that's always been my biggest priority.

Delmon Young

#7. The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.'

Edward Herrmann

#8. An hour sometimes restores us the sum of many years losses.

Publilius Syrus

#9. I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry.

Andrew Solomon

#10. Wins and losses right now are important, but in reality it's the least of my concerns. My concern is to make sure than we give hope to anyone watching us. I am not going to judge this season on wins and losses.

Chris Scelfo

#11. People told me I'd have to deal more with losing at this level. I understood that, but I didn't want to start accepting losses.

Vince Young

#12. We don't sell wins or losses. The one thing you can't control in sports is which games you are going to win or which games you are going to lose. But what I could control was the experience the fans have.

Mark Cuban

#13. So what about me? Would I always have to find a high horse? The moral relish, the rising above, the being in the right, which can make me flaunt my losses.

Alice Munro

#14. Every dimension of life, its gains and its losses, are reason for celebration because each of them brings us closer to wisdom and fullness of understanding.

Joan D. Chittister

#15. Bulls and bears aren't responsible for as many stock losses as bumsteers.

Richard Miller

#16. Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.

Hesiod

#17. You have to minimize your losses and try to preserve capital for those very few instances where you can make a lot in a very short period of time. What you can't afford to do is throw away your capital on suboptimal trades.

Richard Dennis

#18. When Peru had a cholera outbreak in 1991, losses from tourism and agricultural revenue were three times greater than the total money spent on sanitation in the previous decade.

Rose George

#19. The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.

Jack Youngblood

#20. You learn more from your losses, than from your gains.

Paul Tudor Jones

#21. Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

Karl Rove

#22. We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.

John Christopher

#23. If Jim Mora loses his job with the Falcons, it most likely will be because of wins and losses. Problem is, when you work for such an image-conscious owner and in the most fickle of sports towns, random acts of dumbness tend to shrink a guy's margin for error.

Jeff Schultz

#24. (After the losses) I decided I had to break through. I had to set a goal. My goal that I set was to never be pinned.

Kyle Maynard

#25. I would say the league is viable as long as you have owners who want to continue funding losses. But it's not on the long term a sustainable business model that we're happy to be supporting. It needs to be reset.

David Stern

#26. Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.

Thomas Sowell

#27. Every trader has strengths and weakness. Some are good holders of winners, but may hold their losers a little too long. Others may cut their winners a little short, but are quick to take their losses. As long as you stick to your own style, you get the good and bad in your own approach.

Michael Marcus

#28. The two of us were bound together by the thread of grief, but it wasn't just our mutual losses that united us. We'd survived them, found each other, and discovered that sometimes, from darkness can come light.

Brenda Rothert

#29. Daemon: We can go live in a damn cave. Look, I'm a selfish person. You know that. And I don't want you to go through that, so I'm willing to say screw it and we cut our losses.
Katy: Really? What kind of life would that give us?
Daemon: Don't bring logic into this conversation.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#30. Most people write off their longing for friends and family as so many losses in their lives, when they should count the fact that their heart is able to long so hard and to love so much as among their greatest blessings.

Etty Hillesum

#31. their lambs spent the whole summer loose in the highlands without any significant losses. They produced wool of consistently high quality, and were easy to feed and simple to handle. It was no surprise that other breeders

Sarah Lark

#32. I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.

Augusto Pinochet

#33. Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.

Robin S. Sharma

#34. An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.

Jack Kornfield

#35. How shall the heart be reconciled / To its feast of losses?

Stanley Kunitz

#36. In the stock market, even slight miscalculations can cause huge financial losses. Additionally, you need to study and monitor the corporations you've invested in. You

Zachary D. West

#37. When we don't deal honestly with our lives and the losses we face, when we try to anesthetize the pain and move on, then the suppressed anger or fear or guilt will deal with us until we are ready to deal with those issues.

Sheila Walsh

#38. There's no "I" on the football field. We have a total commitment to each other when we're out there. There is no doubt. It doesn't matter. The wins and losses of the game don't resonate with us. What resonates with us is "how much effort would you give for the man next to you."

Ray Lewis

#39. I was very sorry to hear about your losses. Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they'll be more frightened of marriage than they are presently. (Olenna Tyrell to Sansa Stark

George R R Martin

#40. Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies.

Madeline Levine

#41. and the way life is really just a series of losses, one after another after another, and how the moment we realize that is the moment we begin to die.

Tyler Dilts

#42. You learn from mistakes, you learn from losses, but this game doesn't put something on me where it's, 'Hey, I've finally done it. This was a big game. We won it and we have to move on.'

LeBron James

#43. I'm on the record for five losses or something like that, but the one guy who really whipped me was Muhammad Ali. And it taught me one big lesson. That no matter how big and strong you are, you're going to have to use your mind. You must think things out.

George Foreman

#44. In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not.

Paul Von Hindenburg

#45. It is the small losses in life that cut one to the heart.

Henrik Ibsen

#46. When you understand what's involved in winning, as do professional gamblers, you'll tend to bet more during a winning streak and less during a losing streak. However, the average person does exactly the opposite: he or she bets more after a series of losses and less after a series of wins.

Van K. Tharp

#47. We have all suffered losses and pain, but no loss is greater than a life lost holding-on to a painful past.

Bryant McGill

#48. I fully understand that not all of the companies will succeed and that there will be losses along the way, but this is very much the norm with early stage investment.

Andy Murray

#49. A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it; and this I suppose is the reason why losses
vanishing away of things
are among the teachings of this world of shadows.

Orville Dewey

#50. In America, people with lots of money can easily avoid the consequences of bad bets and big losses by cashing out at the first sign of trouble.

Robert Reich

#51. Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.

Allan H. Meltzer

#52. fun challenges. Losses inspire them to work harder to improve and pressure moments of a match are longed for rather than dreaded. As Billie Jean King said in the title of her recent book, "Pressure is a Privilege.

Greg Moran

#53. Private sector labors unions continue to suffer losses in their membership while public sector and service unions grow.

Thomas E. Mann

#54. Whatever the losses in warmth and comfort, the gains in space proved irresistible. So the development of the fireplace became one of the great breakthroughs in domestic history: they allowed people to lay boards across the beams and create a whole new world upstairs.

Bill Bryson

#55. Strength comes from ignoring your critics.
Power comes from mastering your fears.
Fortitude comes from wrestling your opponents.
Superiority comes from overcoming your losses.
Greatness comes from conquering your weaknesses.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#56. Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.

Venus Williams

#57. No company that I ever hacked into reported any damages, which they were required to do for significant losses.

Kevin Mitnick

#58. Amateurs go broke taking large losses, professionals go broke taking small profits.

William Eckhardt

#59. Take patiently the petty annoyances, the trifling discomforts, the unimportant losses which come upon all of us daily; for by means of these little matters, lovingly and freely accepted, you will give Him your whole heart, and win His.

Francis De Sales

#60. Nothing supernatural has ever harmed me. My wounds and losses have all be at the hands of human beings ...

Dean Koontz

#61. Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul; dreadful losses that rupture your perceived reality. Pain so visceral and unrelenting that even death itself can begin to look like a welcomed and kind benefactor.

Bryant McGill

#62. Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.

Paul Celan

#63. Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.

Vince Cable

#64. The main cause of Europe's deep fall - the losses of inclusion, job satisfaction and wage growth - is the devastating slowdown of productivity that began in the late 1990s and struck large swaths of the continent. It holds down the growth of wages rates, and it depresses employment.

Edmund Phelps

#65. Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn't: holes, lack, deficiency.

Ann Voskamp

#66. He couldn't count them all. Nobody taught him how to count past ten. Such losses were beyond his comprehension.

J.U. Scribe

#67. There is nothing like the start of a season, before all the one-run losses, pitching breakdowns and missed opportunities. Before reality sets in.

Michael Connelly

#68. I do think that the long poem speaks for an inner need for continuity. We live in a time of so many losses, disruptions, and distractions, that the need for a sense of the ongoing is quite real. The long poem is very satisfying in offering the psyche a model of coherence.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#69. those losses were the result of wild game, such as elk herds eating haystacks meant

C.J. Box

#70. When a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.

James Vila Blake

#71. Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.

Alfred P. Sloan

#72. Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in proper figures.

Joseph Addison

#73. A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#74. I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.

Andy Roddick

#75. Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.

Hesiod

#76. Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.

Thomas Moore

#77. When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

#78. Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

Walter Raleigh

#79. After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

Benjamin Franklin

#80. You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that.

James Sinegal

#81. Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game

Morgan Wootten

#82. There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again.

Richard Henry Stoddard

#83. If you suffer some losses, remember that after humility a reward from God will always follow

Sunday Adelaja

#84. With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.

Larry Holmes

#85. Do it. Go there. Take it away, permanently. Deliver the fear. Force the task. Remove all hope. Demand the sacrifice. Enact defeat. Wreck everything. Great endings are built of great climaxes: enormous feats, worst fears, tremendous losses, harrowing sacrifices, utter destruction.

Donald Maass

#86. You could look through the windows at any one of these people, but you would only ever see what was there, not what wasn't. The losses and absences didn't show, despite so often being the immovable facts around which a life orbited.

Alice Adams

#87. Today, I stand firm in my own worthiness. My dignity is solid and enduring. My faith is the rock on which I build my life. I dare to risk and I risk my daring. I am large enough to survive my losses and enjoy my gains.

Julia Cameron

#88. There is more in one of their mercies to comfort them, than in all their troubles to deject them. All your losses are but as the loss of a farthing to a prince,

John Flavel

#89. Whenever I take a position, I like to imagine what it would be like under the worst-case scenario. In doing so, I minimize the confusion if that situation actually develops. In my view, losses are a very important part of trading. When a loss happens, I believe in embracing it.

Gil Blake

#90. Winners have to absorb losses.

Ice-T

#91. Tears and sorrows and losses are a part of what must be experienced in this present state of life: some for our manifest good, and ail, therefore, it is trusted, for our good concealed;
for our final and greatest good.

Leigh Hunt

#92. [T]hese losses of the Church in the past hundred years give us reason to fear in the present misfortune that in another hundred years we may lose the Church entirely in Europe. So, keeping this fear in mind, blessed are those who cooperate in extending the Church elsewhere.

Vincent De Paul

#93. Let's not forget, it was the government, Department of Finance and Central Bank that decided to unfairly land the taxpayers of this country with unmitigated losses of Anglo and massive legacy issues that would have been expected when nationalising a fraudulent bank.

Sean Quinn

#94. Deregulated marketplace: a brilliant method by which profits are privatized and losses are socialized.

Greg Palast

#95. War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Thomas Jefferson

#96. A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.

Terry Orlick

#97. A society in which marriage is encouraged and industry prevails soon repairs the accidental losses of pestilence and war.

Edward Gibbon

#98. Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.

Charles Spurgeon

#99. When a man losses faith he betrays a hero

Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

#100. Some of us give up[ ... ] with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success.

Yann Martel