Top 100 To Lose Quotes

#1. He who has nothing - it has been said many times - has nothing to lose but his chains.

Pablo Neruda

#2. I am a sore loser. I've always been like that ever s'nce I started playin' sports and just life in general. I hate to lose and I play to win.

Snoop Dogg

#3. When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

John Scofield

#4. Just as words lose their power when they are not born out of silence, so openness loses its meaning when there is no ability to be closed.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#5. The secret is to believe in your dreams; in your potential that you can be like your star, keep searching, keep believing and don't lose faith in yourself.

Neymar

#6. i don't take breaks. you're either with me or you lose me to someone better than you. i refuse to give you a pass to freely fuck someone else then return to me when you're tired of being fucked over..

R H Sin

#7. Dont allow a worthless bitch to cause you lose an irreplaceable queen

Prince Simus

#8. Women lose their delicacy and refinement, when they are compelled night and day to haggle with their destiny over things pitifully small, and for this they are blamed by those whom their toil supports.

Rabindranath Tagore

#9. The reason God commands us to love Him with all our heart is not because He is an egomaniac! It is because He knows that anything we love more than Him will betray us. Eventually, we lose it by its death . . . or ours.

Matt Papa

#10. The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.

C.S. Lewis

#11. Any minority's right to be different must be respected, but the right of the majority must not be questioned. Without the values at the core of Christianity and other world religions, without moral norms that have been shaped over millennia, people will inevitably lose their human dignity.

Vladimir Putin

#12. It was one thing to die. It was another to lose one's soul. To come to a complete end. To exist no longer.

Darynda Jones

#13. It's amazing what we lose in life by listening to fear, instead of listening to God.

Joyce Meyer

#14. In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.

Viswanathan Anand

#15. Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude.

Lord Chesterfield

#16. Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.

Richard Price

#17. I take a cruel joy in seeing you tremble and writhe beneath my whip, and in hearing your groans and wails; I want to go on whipping without pity until you beg for mercy, until you lose your senses.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

#18. Do not attempt to lose weight without training your muscles at the same time. Prepare, plan, and persist...and get it right the first time. This

Ellington Darden

#19. My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.

Morrissey

#20. Having nothing to lose is the new wealth.

Chuck Palahniuk

#21. Meager as it is. Nothing to lose as I have. Nothing is something somehow.

Peter Heller

#22. Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.

George Mason

#23. At the very moment when man is on the verge of realizing his hope, he begins to lose it.

Erich Fromm

#24. I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.

Jared Harris

#25. Sustainability is no longer optional. Companies that fail to adopt such practices will perish. They will not only lose cost basis: they will also suffer in recruiting employees as well as attracting customers.

John Replogle

#26. A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third ... when you know you're going to lose!

Savielly Tartakower

#27. When I was younger, I'd make a point of driving to the middle of nowhere and spending an evening with just me, the wind, and the moon. Your skin crawls up an octave. This is what I tap into when I'm working on horror films. I'm just afraid a time will come when I lose touch with that part of myself.

Christopher Young

#28. I am marrying the finest man I have ever known." "It will cost you dear," he warns. "It would be worse to lose him.

Philippa Gregory

#29. One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.

Jack Canfield

#30. I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

Rafael Nadal

#31. Use what you have in your gym. Try to do my training program, you will lose your fat and gain muscles at the same time.

Serge Nubret

#32. Too many people were obsessed with their heads and were alienated from their bodies, Perls believed, adding: We have to lose our minds and come to our senses.

Gay Talese

#33. But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, nor what any of them want, they do not want you to find yourself in them, they want instead that you should lose yourself in them. And yet, he thought, they are always trying to find themselves in you.

James Jones

#34. A person either hates losing enough to change or he hates changing enough to lose.

Orrin Woodward

#35. The new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.

Gloria Steinem

#36. My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don't eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farmyard.

Billy Connolly

#37. When you lose your face ... , it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it.

Amy Tan

#38. When you lose the title, that doesn't mean you lose the contract to what you had. Just like when you win the title, it doesn't mean you win brains, PhDs and MAs.

Don King

#39. You either hate losing enough to change, or you hate changing enough to lose.

Orrin Woodward

#40. We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.

Knute Rockne

#41. The immense distance between God and humanity is the indispensable backdrop to a Christian idea of revelation. To reduce God to the level of human thought and human imagination, so that we can comprehend God, is to lose a sense of the very thing that distinguishes God as God.

A.J. Conyers

#42. We picked the Red Sox because they lose. If you root for something that loses for 86 years, you're a pretty good fan. You don't have to win everything to be a fan of something.

Jimmy Fallon

#43. The day you lose someone isn't the worst -at least you've got something to do- it's all the days they stay dead.

Steven Moffat

#44. Be fair. Don't present your version of the truth to others. Lose your ulterior motives! Be accurate and pure in your presentation of the way, and you will become the way.

Frederick Lenz

#45. When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.

Graham Swift

#46. You've got nothing to lose. Many people don't allow themselves to love, precisely because of that, because there are a lot of things at risk, a lot of future and a lot of past. In your case, there is only the present.

Paulo Coelho

#47. There are moments in life where you don't get a do-over, where the true nature of your character is revealed. You either step up to the plate or lose your chance forever. These moments shape a life. These moments earn you the right to say to yourself 'at least I got the important stuff right.

P. Dangelico

#48. Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather to the turns of speech, the allegories, figures, metaphors, as you will, into which the source has deviated, in order to lose it or rediscover it - which always amounts to the same.

Jacques Derrida

#49. It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

John Ruskin

#50. To you, death does not simply end life. It steals away the sunsets you'll never see, the children you'll never hold, the wife you'll never love. It's frightening to almost lose your future, and it's heartbreaking to witness death snuff out other people's tomorrows.

Robert Liparulo

#51. I cannot lose you. Don't you get that? You weren't supposed to be mine. I am, and will always be, too dangerous for you, but I'm selfish and want you anyway. Now that I have you, you cannot leave me. I'm not letting you go - and

Carrie Ann Ryan

#52. If you lose 50%, it takes 100% to get back to where you started-and that takes something you can never get back: time.

Tony Robbins

#53. It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth.

Shannon L. Alder

#54. I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war.

Richard M. Nixon

#55. Here's the dirty little secret: Fiat currency is designed to lose value. Its very purpose is to confiscate your wealth and transfer it to the government. Each time the government prints a new dollar and spends it, the government gets the full purchasing power of that dollar.

Michael Maloney

#56. I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'

Margaret Cho

#57. I could take all the cartoons in the tabloid newspapers, but I couldn't take my daughter punching me in the belly and asking why I was so fat. That was my inspiration to lose the weight. And probably the last time anyone hurt my feelings.

Al Sharpton

#58. I didn't want to find out the reality that if I wanted my dream, I had to lose weight. That's a crushing dream for anybody ... to change yourself to get your dream. Nobody should have to do that.

Serinda Swan

#59. I do like Peyton Manning. I mean, you can't lose with a guy like that - especially with the amount of touchdowns he's been able to produce.

Dhani Jones

#60. It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all - we may not open a book, once read, for ten years or more. But the act of reading has made it part of us - to relinquish it would be to lose an extension of our being.

Pam Brown

#61. When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight!

Li Na

#62. Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.

Napoleon Hill

#63. IT FEELS AS though I'm splintering into a dozen directions at once - grief, then rage, then panic. The last thing I need right now is to lose it. Instead I force my mind to go to the place that always calms and centers me: painting.

Anonymous

#64. We humans are unhappy in large part because we are insatiable; after working hard to get what we want, we routinely lose interest in the object of our desire. Rather than feeling satisfied, we feel a bit bored, and in response to this boredom, we go on to form new, even grander desires.

William B. Irvine

#65. For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.

Khaled Hosseini

#66. Time does not act on memory to soften the edges, blur the details; if anything, it sharpens them. Emotions may lose their acid outlines, but not places and people, not if you wish to retain them.

Susan Moody

#67. By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my high school government and history teachers.

Ronee Blakley

#68. Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

Olympia Dukakis

#69. I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind. I think that's wonderful. To be able to lose it, in many ways, is just great fun to do.

Daniel Sharman

#70. If you want to lose sleep at night and eliminate all your free time or freedom, by all means open a small business, especially one that serves food.

Bill Clegg

#71. Well, whatever one thinks of the Roman Church, it is a worthy and powerful foe. I could accept that sort of conversion with grace. But I shall be very disappointed indeed if we lose him to the Presbyterians.

Donna Tartt

#72. I tried to be the leader ... that was my aim. But it is important to know how to win and how to lose.

Vitali Klitschko

#73. In a world that is incredibly loud it is easy to lose yourself in the noise and forget who you truly are.

Bella Sparelli

#74. It's going to be very important that we as women's rights advocates are involved in redistricting of both the states legislatures and of the House of Representatives and that we not lose seats but we gain seats for talented women and our country, but we're lacking behind.

Eleanor Smeal

#75. For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing or if you have pages of extraneous description, a kid's not going to do that. They will drop the book.

Rick Riordan

#76. Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality ... and fall.

Frank Herbert

#77. Lose your balance for a moment and there you go, the world flings you off its spinning surface and its not so easy to scramble back on.

Christina Sunley

#78. As soon as he comes into view, I lose the war. The war I didn't even know I was fighting. It doesn't happen often, but when I do find a guy attractive, it's better when it happens with a person I want it to happen with

Colleen Hoover

#79. There is nothing one can have that one cannot fear to lose. Instead of living life in order to have more abundantly, live life in order to be more abundantly.

Stephen Batchelor

#80. You have to keep your goal in mind and never lose sight of it. I envisioned myself winning the heavyweight title for ten years before I actually captured it. If you're not driven to do your best, you'll never reach the level of excellence in your life.

George Foreman

#81. Survivor species tend to have huge populations, so they can afford to lose many individuals and still survive as a species. They also tend to be small. If you're small, you need less food - which is great in a situation where famine is everywhere.

Annalee Newitz

#82. Loyalty must be forged - to him, to his: stronger than iron, from experience, from risk - it can't be bought, or taught, or promised before the fact. Allegiance must be earned so it will hold, win or lose.

Janet Morris

#83. Stop giving yourself permission to fail;
start giving yourself permission to succeed.
You cannot win battles you have already lost in your mind.
You cannot lose battles you have already won in your heart.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#84. I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.

Muhammad Ali

#85. The sky which had started out with such verve and spirit in the morning was beginning to lose its concentration and slip back into its normal English condition, that of a damp and rancid dish cloth.

Douglas Adams

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. Energy spent to worry is a total lose. It is a down payment you've made without any return".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#89. Anything can happen to anyone at any time and you shouldn't just live through the days, or you lose them. You should do what you can to enjoy every moment.

Sarah Brightman

#90. There is nothing to lose in life. Be courageous!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#91. Our doubts are traitors and make us
lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. In other words, a
wish is a good place to start but then you have to get off your butt and make it
happen. You have to pick up a quill and write your own damn story. (Mimi Wallingford)

Suzanne Selfors

#92. On a daily basis, people lose their lives, they lose their health, they lose their families, and they lose their children, only because they refuse to have a corresponding knowledge to what they possess in hand.

Sunday Adelaja

#93. Be so strong that no one can ignore you. By blaming others you never win, but you do lose to your conscience again and again.

Debasish Mridha

#94. Unless you have to, never fight a battle you now you're going to lose.

Patrick W. Carr

#95. My state of mind, and all accompanying circumstances, were just now such as most to favour the adoption of a new, resolute, and daring - perhaps desperate - line of action. I had nothing to lose.

Charlotte Bronte

#96. You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in.

Walt Whitman

#97. It's hard to care about people when you're always afraid you might lose them. But I think not caring is worse.

Amber Argyle

#98. If she's going to win, we need a plan." Her smile was diabolical, and I grinned with her. I'd never met anyone as organized as these girls. If I had them, there was no way I could lose.

Kiera Cass

#99. As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them.

Pearl S. Buck

#100. This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings

Autumn Doughton

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