Top 100 To Lose Quotes
#1. I just hate to lose. When I am on the court, it is like my life depends on it.
Serena Williams
#2. It isn't about how much physical weight you think you need to lose, it's about the mental weight that blocks you from loving yourself
Susan Hyatt
#3. To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.
David Whyte
#4. Women have rooms inside of us men cannot fathom.
It's where we store the depths of the hurt we've been dealt.
Where we store the deep love we never want to lose.
Rachel Thompson
#5. In voiceover, you have to restrain yourself when you're acting in the sound booth in front of the microphone. If you lean left or you lean right, you're going to lose the voice. Yet you yourself become animated when you're doing the part. So you'll see a lot of flailing arms, but a very still face.
Brendan Dooling
#6. When you give everything, you have nothing to lose.
Kate McGahan
#7. Do not tell me you don't know you're pretty. If so, I'm
about to lose all faith in mankind. You don't want to be responsible for that.
J. Lynn
#8. To lose my mother just as I'm right on the brink of crossing that threshold over into a career, it was pretty compelling. My entire career is my mother's work, for me.
CeeLo Green
#9. After filming, I can't wait to shake off all that '50s primness. I'll go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - it's dead important.
Jessica Raine
#10. Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
Janis Joplin
#11. Mona: "There's this girl who's following me around. I've been trying to lose her."
Elaine: "Black hair and amazing eye shadow, right? You can't lose her, Mona. But you're okay if we stick together. Anyone who's with me she sort of ignores.
Mike Carey
#12. In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.
Jules Verne
#13. The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature.
(Referenced in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young)
Saul Bellow
#14. To lose someone after you've loved them was tougher than losing them when you've never even met them.
Diyar Harraz
#15. Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
Ralph Peters
#16. We got one life to live so lets live it tothe fullest
there is nothing to lose just take off shoes and test the water
Peter Luther
#17. The best way to lose weight is to put the handle of the fridge two inches from the ground.
Dawn French
#18. To die is to lose the self and rejoin the rest. He had kept himself, and lost the rest.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#19. There's a whole list of things I would probably change about myself. For example, I'm always trying to lose fifteen pounds. But I never need to be skinny. I don't want to be skinny. I'm constantly in a state of self-improvement but I don't beat myself up over it.
Mindy Kaling
#20. That's how you know when you have thought too much-- when you become a dialogue between You'll probably lose and You're sure to lose.
Norman Maclean
#21. Just as easy as it was to get, just as easy as it is to lose. I've learned that.
Khali Raymond
#22. For me, teaching helps to reaffirm the right principles and values of acting. It helps me focus on the good stuff that can be easy to lose sight of because the business is so result-oriented.
Mark Pellegrino
#24. I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else.
Helen Mirren
#25. In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.
Alice Hoffman
#27. It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#28. For often we wickedly blind ourselves to the occasions of teaching and admonishing them, sometimes even of reprimanding and chiding them, either because we shrink from the labor or are ashamed to offend them, or because we fear to lose good friendships,
Augustine Of Hippo
#29. Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
Tony Blair
#30. I'm terrified to lose him for good, so I sell myself short and take what I can from him, even though I know I deserve better.
Colleen Hoover
#31. One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them.
Oscar Wilde
#33. Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about two friends being chased by a bear, when one turned to the other and said, I just realized that I don't need to outrun the bear; I only need to outrun you.
Sean Covey
#34. Debate, but do not argue.
Challenge, but do not force your opinions.
To win an argument, but lose a friendship, is a loss.
To lose an argument, but retain a friendship, is gain.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#35. To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
Hermann Hesse
#36. But when I met you, I saw your light and I loved you at once. And I thought that at this stage in my life, I had nothing to lose by being honest with the woman I wanted to have by my side.
Paulo Coelho
#37. You and that girl together, well...let's just say, you might be the one to lose, my man."
"Thanks, bro, but losing her wouldn't make the game worth winning so I guess I'll take my chances because she is worth it.
Nevaeh Lee
#38. If you look at me as a role model, I agree with it. If you look at me as an idol, I don't because an idol for me is someone that you want to replicate. You want to be them and I don't wish that on anyone to lose what they have personally, because that's when your spark is lost.
Miley Cyrus
#39. Are we defending life when we just pick and choose lives acceptable to lose and which ones to defend?
Derek Webb
#40. You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.
Hiroaki Aoki
#41. The Republican establishment may in fact be so desirous of getting rid of the Tea Party as its base, they may be willing to lose some elections in order to get rid of their base and put up a new base.
Rush Limbaugh
#42. Adults do not forget the horrors and shamings of their childhood, but those feelings tend to lose their immediacy
Stephen King
#43. Let me go!" I screamed, but it was a wasted effort. Dean was determined to hold me. Determined never to lose his grip.
"I'm never going to let you go again.
Jaimie Roberts
#44. These energies when directed towards the subtle physical body cause the subtle physical body to break down, to lose its lumonisity.
Frederick Lenz
#45. Faith is hard to achieve, easy to lose.
Zadie Smith
#46. I don't want to lose my accent, I just want it to become smaller.
Goran Visnjic
#47. You should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as happy ending. There is so much to lose.
John Green
#48. If you pull some lame-ass 'I'm your father' bullshit, right now, I'm going to lose it.
Martin Leicht
#49. The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money.
Jim Cramer
#50. I looked massive next to Ryan Seacrest! But I was lucky that I've never had anyone say, 'Jordin, you need to lose weight.'
Jordin Sparks
#51. Gossips are like ants" she caressed his head "the moment you spot one, there are already many anthills around but don't look for them because if you do, you'll find them and they in turn would bite you and cause you pain, and pain would cause you to lose focus.
S.A. David
#52. To allow Christ to live in you is to lose your ego-centric motivation
Sunday Adelaja
#53. My mouth was under attack but it felt like love, not war. It was a battle that wouldn't have a victor because we both won as we took everything the other offered, and I knew we were both going to lose as soon as the sun came up in the morning and we had to officially say goodbye
Jay Crownover
#54. Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.
Johannes Tauler
#55. The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.
Brennan Manning
#56. Schuyler knew that one day it would come to this. That she would have to lose one to have the other one. That this game would have consequences.
Melissa De La Cruz
#57. A part of me didn't want to need anyone, miss anyone, even love anyone, It'd always been me against the world, and I didn't altogether enjoy that I was starting to lose that feeling. It usually meant that something awful was going to happen
Tijan
#58. It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.
K. Pattabhi Jois
#60. Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy.
Oli Thompson
#61. If I am seen as successful, it's all the more reason not to change - not to lose track of friends, not to be driven everywhere, not to go and get away from the world. That, to me, is real success: enjoying what you do, but being the same person.
Michael Palin
#62. - I don't want to lose you
- Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?
Alexandra Bracken
#63. Never value anything as profitable that compels you to break your promise, to lose your self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything that needs walls and curtains:
Marcus Aurelius
#64. 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
#65. When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
M. Stanton Evans
#66. To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#67. You will be tempted to lose hope, but always remember that God is with you and if there seems to be no hope, He is your hope.
Therese May
#68. A big mistake people make when they are trying to lose weight is that they stop eating. They'll eat salads once a day and then their body starts trying to protect itself and holds onto the fat.
Curtis Jackson
#69. Damn, my first cut that I showed to distributors was probably about two hours and 20 minutes, even though my contract said two hours. So, I had to lose 20 minutes. It's incredible that it just keeps happening.
David Twohy
#70. You can only give away that which is yours to lose.
Holly Bodger
#71. You lose the world for a glance? Of course you do. That is what the world is for: to lose under the right circunstances.
Julian Barnes
#72. Yeah, I will. Why do you
care so much all of a sudden?"
Cade shrugged. "I don't have anything else to do. And like I said ... you and Lark and this ranch
are all I have. Makes you cling to things tighter when you realize how easy it is to lose them.
Maisey Yates
#73. The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.
Ernest Hemingway,
#75. To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate.
Barbara Dana
#76. There are no hopeless positions; there are only inferior positions that can be saved. There are no drawn positions; there are only equal ones in which you can play for a win. But at the same time, don't forget that there is no such thing as a won position in which it is impossible to lose.
Grigory Sanakoev
#77. Are you referring to the day you instructed me to 'follow the white rabbit,' plied me with absinthe and brownies, and tried to have your way with me? Didn't take long for you to lose your romantic streak, did it?
Elle Lothlorien
#78. If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.
Larry Ellison
#79. It was so important for me to lose everything, because I found out what the most important thing is, which is to be true to yourself.
Ellen DeGeneres
#80. Mrs. Sussex said Byron's loss would grow more bearable. But here was the nub: he didn't want to lose his loss. Loss was all he had left of his mother. If time healed the gap, it would be as if she'd never been there.
Rachel Joyce
#81. The trick in life is not to die. The trick in investing is not to lose.
Bruce Berkowitz
#82. To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Bernadette Devlin
#83. If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.
Ted Turner
#84. There was no excuse for Dallas Cowboys to lose to Washington. Rivalry or not, Redskins are a bad team.
Jemele Hill
#85. It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.
Gail Tsukiyama
#86. You reminded me what it feels like to love. You made me fall in love and, fuck, I don't want to lose that. I don't want to lose you.
Nyrae Dawn
#87. You were a spoiled child who did a cruel thing. You deserved to be beaten and confined to your room, but you didn't deserve to lose everything.
Jeaniene Frost
#88. Maven stares after his fleeing brother. "He does not like to lose. And" - he lowers his voice, now so close to me I can see the tiny flecks of silver in his eyes - "neither do I. I won't lose you, Mare. I won't."
"You'll never lose me.
Victoria Aveyard
#89. Love such a funny word; a worse emotion. It's crazy because it has the ability to give you strength, happiness and mostly belief. At the same time this thing call love can turn you bitter, insecure and allow you to lose sight of who you are in that same moment.
Mz. Baltimore
#90. If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose them. It's helpful when you get a dog to accept the fact that this dog is not going to be with you your whole life.
Jon Katz
#91. If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Amy Carmichael
#92. Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
Pat Riley
#93. It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
Gertrude Stein
#94. My epiphany came in that police cell: I realised I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.
David Millar
#96. How easy to be free. How strong we are when we have nothing to lose.
Ella Leya
#97. If you don't love, then nobody gets hurt. It's easy to leave. It's easy to lose. It's easy to let go.
Amy Harmon
#98. For me, the photography, in its purest form, is a variant of the fable. Another way of saving the appearances - a way of signifying, through this fabulous capture, that this supposed real world is always about to lose its meaning and its reality ...
Jean Baudrillard
#99. If God had wanted me to lose weight he would have made sure there was creamed spinach for dessert.
Janet Evanovich
#100. Raven was asking Apple to give up all known paths forever after. To lose everything that was known and safe. To spend her entire life on unfamiliar paths and wind-beaten cliffs. Every day uncertain, dangerous, treading water in a well with no guarantee of a Happily Ever After.
Shannon Hale
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