Top 100 The Loser Quotes
#1. The winner asks, "May I help?" The loser asks, "Do you expect me to do that?"
William Arthur Ward
#2. He was the loser Indian father of a loser Indian son living in a world built for winners.
Sherman Alexie
#3. Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.
Toba Beta
#4. As everyone knows, it's not the winning that counts: it's the taking part. Nonsense! That is the battle cry of the loser. This
Tom Whipple
#5. History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?
Dan Brown
#6. At the battle of the bands the loser's always the audience.
Demetri Martin
#7. The perfect fight is one that is over before the loser really understands what is going on. The perfect defense is a counterattack that succeeds before the assailant discovers that he has bitten off more than he can chew.
Jeff Cooper
#8. Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end.
Khalil
#9. When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she's the star. Ke$ha's greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e!
Rob Sheffield
#10. Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?
Terry Pratchett
#11. The loser, when a game of dice is done,
remains behind reviewing every roll
sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.
Dante Alighieri
#12. When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.
Bashar Al-Assad
#13. Winning an argument is losing it as it makes the loser feel bad.
Deepak Chopra
#14. A lesser man might have begrudged
him that, but remembering the old adage, "The finder's goods shall
he retain / Nor mind the loser's dreadful pain," I rejoiced, rather, in his good
fortune.
Vinnie Tesla
#16. I wish for all who look for Gold,
Shall find one letter less,
A world where trying always wins,
And leaves the loser blessed.
Frederic M. Perrin
#17. But change's always harsh on the loser. Nothing new.
Philip K. Dick
#18. If you enter a race and finish last, you are a winner. The loser never entered the race.
Roger Crawford
#19. I think people forget that bipartisanship is really the burden of the victor, not the loser.
Mike Huckabee
#20. People always are encouraging about a terrible loss, so that sometimes the loser would like to strangle them.
Garrison Keillor
#21. Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Robert Kennedy
#22. Nothing can steal happiness, peace, away from you: if anyone does make you angry, you are the loser; if someone can allow you to lose peace, you are the loser.
Bikram Choudhury
#23. In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning ... In life the loser's score is always zero.
W. H. Auden
#24. The winner of the first point is the loser of the last.
Michael Stean
#25. If you don't believe in a line, then you come off as the loser.
Anna Faris
#26. Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor.
Craig Brown
#27. Two bulls fighting for the cow. And a bony one at that. But in America the loser oftentimes got the cow. Mother instinct? Better wallet? Longer dick? God knows what. ...
Charles Bukowski
#28. If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.
John Donne
#29. It all depends on the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber. - Daupin
Edgar Allan Poe
#30. One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.
John Paul Stevens
#31. There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser.
Buenaventura Durruti
#32. Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings have been translated into 40 languages.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
#33. To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.
Vince Lombardi
#34. Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated path. Don't ignore a solution just because it's simple!
Robert Ringer
#36. She felt like the loser kid the teacher made everyone play with at recess.
-Hanna Marin
Sara Shepard
#37. That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.
John Madden
#38. In any negotiation, the one who first gives a number is the loser.
Kenneth Eade
#39. The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.
Ian Fleming
#41. If anyone had said to him, "Would you like to be better off?" he would have replied: "No." If God had said to him: "Would you like heaven itself in exchange?" he would have replied, "I would be the loser.
Victor Hugo
#42. If I cling to circumstances I could feel
not responsible. Only she who says
she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
Adrienne Rich
#43. The loser was a born loser, I thought, he has always been the loser and if we observe the people around us carefully we notice that these people consist almost entirely of losers like him, I said to myself, of
Thomas Bernhard
#44. 'If only' is the excuse of the loser; 'I can' is the affirmation of the winner.
William Arthur Ward
#45. If what I want is a little less big, less noble than what he wants... does that make me the loser?
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#46. In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished ... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.
U Thant
#47. The greatest gap in sports is between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl. The winner has confetti, parades, rings, the whole thing. The loser puts his head down and goes to his house.
John Madden
#48. In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed.
Christopher Hitchens
#49. For the loser now
Will be later to win
Bob Dylan
#50. Stand up for the underdog, the 'loser.' Sometimes having the strength to show loving support for unacknowledged others turns the tides of our own lives.
Alexandra Katehakis
#51. Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.
Robert Breault
#52. I was ... the loser of my class. I had absolutely no friends.
Neve Campbell
#53. Depression is not madness, it's just depression, the loser version, the low-energy response to bad stuff that happens in your life. When you're depressed, you think you're the only one to have ever tasted this kind of hurt. And that lonely self-regard brings with it its own painful pleasure.
Ana Menendez
#54. In this the seat our Conqueror has given?
And this the climate we must change for heaven?
These Regions and this realm my wars have got
The mournful Empire is the loser's lot.
John Dryden
#55. I think they've met before," she finally said.
"Who? Thibault and the loser?
Nicholas Sparks
#56. But what kind of race is it, when the racers never let go of each other's hands, and the winner pulls the loser laughing over the finish line?
Orson Scott Card
#57. If this depression stays with us, the loser Tuesday is going to be the winner.
Will Rogers
#58. You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.
Peter F. Hamilton
#59. Science really creates wealth and opportunity which did not exist before. Whereas the old order was based on competition, the new order of science makes possible, for the first time, a cooperative creative effort in which every one is the gainer and no one the loser ...
Karl Taylor Compton
#62. There are no ultimate ends. Only games and more games. The winner this round is the loser the next round. Only the game is eternal. And the game is always the same, if you never change the rules.
Gerard Jones
#63. Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin' For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'.
Bob Dylan
#64. The winner is just the loser who never gave up!
Mika.
#65. That's what war was. A great motion and then a great stillness in which the winner crouches and the loser lies facing the sky.
Kathy Hepinstall
#66. The mildest allegiance was proof one parent was the rightest and the most beloved, and I refused to call the winner and the loser in their war.
Joshilyn Jackson
#67. No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
Muhammad Ali
#68. His office led into a larger one in which two women of indeterminate age were attacking typewriters as though they were engaged in a race and the loser was to be executed the next morning.
Victoria Clayton
#70. The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and profit
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#71. Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
Alexander Pope
#72. When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
Socrates
#73. The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
H.G.Wells
#74. The final two words of his challenge, "no tears", meant that the loser was expected to suffer a great deal of pain, but wasn't entitled to whine, bitch or moan about it. He'd just have to hunker down and keep his poverty to himself.
Michael Lewis
#75. And, lets be honest, she'd come out the loser in a match against a wet fucking kitten.
Mina Carter
#76. I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.
Lady Gaga
#77. All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room.
Pete Hamill
#79. In every battle, there is a death. The loser may laugh it off if the war is short and sweet and without cost. Or the loser may bleed out, if the war is to the death.
Yasmine Galenorn
#80. The Loser proceeds to narrate the same story he tells in virtually every one of his plays and novels: a story of frustrated ambition and (incestuous) love, suicide, and the generally grotesque absurdity of existence. But
Thomas Bernhard
#81. Whatever your personal political feelings are, if you become involved in them publicly you're bound to come out the loser.
Dusty Springfield
#82. She doesn't see the loser that everyone else does, and somehow, she makes me believe I'm not that guy either.
Stacey Broadbent
#85. As soon as Mr. Prosser realized that he was substantially the loser after all, it was as if a weight lifted itself off his shoulders: this was more like the world as he knew it.
Douglas Adams
#86. The loser is always a part of the problem; the winner is always a part of the answer. The loser always has an excuse; the winner always has a program. The loser says it may be possible, but it's difficult; the winner says it may be difficult, but it's possible.
Althea Gibson
#87. The first thing which will be judged among a man's deeds on the Day of Resurrection is the Prayer. If this is in good order then he will succeed and prosper but if it is defective then he will fail and will be a loser.
Muhammad
#88. I have a problem with that silver medal. It's like, 'Congratulation s, you almost won. Of all the losers, you're the number one loser. No one lost ahead of you.'
Jerry Seinfeld
#89. There are no second-place finishers - you don't take silver, you simply lose gold. Second place is nothing but the best loser - nobody lost better than the guy in second place. But on the battlefield that guy usually winds up dead.
Jamie Smith
#90. I was a loser, a bad kid, I wasn't really into anything, and then someone gave me a camera and I found that this was the thing I wanted to do.
Steven Klein
#91. Compared to Clinton, I feel like a loser. I can't even get the intern to make me coffee!
David Letterman
#92. So I made a request. I said to the writers, I have a minor request that I just want to play a loser.
Justin Long
#93. I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When you are such a loser, it's a helpful way in to a lot of characters because even very powerful people are not all that powerful, really.
Sigourney Weaver
#94. It is a war of light vs. darkness, of Christ vs. antichrist, the Word of God vs. secular humanism. There will be a winner and a loser!.. There is no compromise with the enemy. There is no neutrality in this war!
John Hagee
#95. I had to be the world's biggest loser, writing about hair, and stuff about my body. No wonder I stopped keeping a journal. It was like keeping a record of my own stupidity. Why would I want to do that?
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#96. When I saw contestants fighting for their lives on 'The Biggest Loser,' I realized I just wanted to be healthy - to have fun playing soccer with my son or teaching my daughter to shoot hoops. Then it was so much easier to say no to carbs, soda, or dessert, and the weight just came off.
Alison Sweeney
#98. Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
Tom Petty
#99. In tennis, at the end of the day you're a winner or a loser. You know exactly where you stand ... I don't need that anymore. I don't need my happiness, my well-being, to be based on winning and losing.
Chris Evert
#100. Want to be happy? Don't live competitively. Be content who you are. Live at peace with yourself and the losers below you.
Dana Gould
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