
Top 68 What Makes You Lose Quotes
#1. There are fights that you may lose without losing your honor; what makes you lose your honor is not to fight.
-Jaques Jaujard
Robert M. Edsel
#2. Last night was what love is supposed to feel like, terrifying and beautiful and so close you're afraid you'll lose a piece of yourself, but you don't. You gain a piece of the person you love instead, a piece that makes you stronger and happier than you could have imagined possible.
Stacey Jay
#3. If a magician makes a mistake, it's sometimes forgiven by the audience. If a gambling cheat makes a mistake, they will almost certainly lose their lives - and probably in a horrible manner.
Steve Truglia
#4. My life is in the hands of any fool who makes me lose my temper.
Joseph Hunter
#5. Love is not a good thing, I've decided. It just makes you afraid you'll lose what you love, and then, because your fear makes a space for that to happen, it does. What's the point?
Helen Humphreys
#6. Today a picture has value if it makes a lot of money. Myself, I declare I want to make a picture to lose money. Really! I want to lose money.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#7. Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals.
Arlene J. Chai
#8. Never Quit ... Never ever Quit ... You might feel weak when there is someone stronger and more skilled than you are, but if you don't quit there is a chance to prove your determination ... but quitting makes you lose already ...
Swetha Dhanagari
#9. Traveling makes a vacation lose all appeal. You would never want to take the family to a European city. You travel a lot, but it's a job.
Hamilton Leithauser
#10. So I was at the gas station the other day, and I saw that there was braille on the pumps. I don't see how they can cater to blind drivers. I mean, there are certain rights you should lose once you lose what makes you a person.
Zach Braff
#11. [A] society which makes freedom its primary goal will lose it, because it has made, not responsibility, but freedom from responsibility, its purpose. When freedom is the basic emphasis, it is not responsible speech which is fostered but irresponsible speech.
R.J. Rushdoony
#12. If you're a global company you are going to have jobs overseas. The reality is if we start taxing those jobs at a rate that makes them noncompetitive in those markets, the reality is that we're going to lose business.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#13. Loving people and animals makes us stronger in the right ways and weaker in the right ways. Even if animals and people leave, even if they die, they leave us better. So we keep loving, even though we might lose, because loving teaches us and changes us.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#14. Breaking composure, confidence, and speed in the water makes you lose the race, not the goggles that fell off your head when you dove in.
Amanda Beard
#15. -I die. Before I die my body turns hair-side-in. People come from everywhere to see the insides of themselves. But the sight makes them lose the will, and all die. O the embarrassment.
Joe Haldeman
#16. Every day I remind myself of all that I have been given ... With singing, you never know when you are going to lose the voice, and that makes you appreciate the time that you have when you are still singing well. I am always thanking God for another season, another month, another performance.
Anita O'Day
#17. How ironic for peacemaking efforts to discover that hatred is stronger for many than love; that the longing to achieve power through military victories makes so many men lose their reason, forget all shame, and betray history.
Oscar Arias
#18. We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.
Patricia Sun
#19. Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do ... Maybe it's the same with people," Hugo continued. "If you lose your purpose ... it's like your broken.
Brian Selznick
#20. I can win but you cant lose, this makes us all even in our ways.
Suzanne Collins
#21. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation and then guess what. After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing
John C. Maxwell
#22. We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?
Robert McNamara
#23. 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,
#24. But love makes you an optimist", she said. "That is what love is. It is hope for the future. Love doesn't want you to lose faith, to view the world darkly, to have no hope. Love makes you believe in the impossible. That is the meaning of the word
Karina Halle
#25. I don't know what makes people start wanting each other any more than I know what makes it stop all of a sudden. I just know that when you lose it once, you'll never take it for granted again
Sue Merrell
#26. It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.
Courtney Love
#27. What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
Andre Agassi
#28. Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him; since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide.
William Penn
#29. People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.
Thomas Jane
#30. It's okay to lose. Losing teaches you something. Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting.
Elizabeth Banks
#31. The closer you get to excellence in your life, the more friends you'll lose. People love you when you are average, because it makes them comfortable. But when you pursue greatness, it makes people uncomfortable. Be prepared to lose some people on your journey.
Tony Gaskins Jr.
#32. Fear is what makes people lose battles that haven't even begun.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#33. Drinking makes a person lose his inhibitions and give exhibitions
Nancy Astor
#34. I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I ... I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I'm not ... for once, I'm not destroying, I'm creating.
Sarah J. Maas
#35. Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
Alexander Pope
#36. I think parenting actually makes you lose pieces of your soul again, because they go off, into your children. Or, I mean, I am so fragmented, and I'm such a spacey person.
Larkin Grimm
#37. If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful, and great. No! Only in this friendship are the doors of life opened wide. Only in this friendship is the great potential of human existence truly revealed.
Pope Benedict XVI
#38. When we live life centered around what others like, feel, and say, we lose touch with our own identity. I am an eternal being, created by God. I am an individual with purpose. It's not what I get from life, but who I am, that makes the difference.
Neva Coyle
#39. Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.
Pope Francis
#40. What is crucial in dealing with loss is not to lose the lesson. That makes you a winner in the most profound sense.
Dayananda Saraswati
#41. You can either go to the gym because you want to lose weight, or you can go to the gym because you like how it makes you feel when you're running.
Craig Finn
#42. There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.
Victoria Woodhull
#43. Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.
Saul Bellow
#44. Heroes aren't always the ones who win," she said. "They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes.
Cassandra Clare
#45. It makes me feel both strong and weak at the same time, like I could lean too much on him, on the support he's offering, and lose myself behind him. After
Sara Raasch
#46. Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.
Eric Taylor
#47. Even when life hurts, I see no reason to give up. All the mistakes makes me angry, and my anger refuses to lose.
Tricia Furtado
#48. I have a harder time eating properly than I do exercising. It's easier for me to add an activity than to deny myself something. And when I do lose the weight, I don't like that it makes me feel good about myself. It's not who I am.
Carrie Fisher
#49. You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all ... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.
Luis Bunuel
#50. Every incident chips away at your limit. Every time you choose to stay, it makes the next time that much harder to leave. Eventually, you lose sight of your limit altogether, because you start to think, 'I've lasted five years now. What's five more?
Colleen Hoover
#51. I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests in me, Drawn upward by the choice that makes him free, Leave him in tragic loneliness to choose, With all in life to win or all to lose.
Edwin Markham
#52. What is it about him that makes you, like, totally lose your shit?
Megan McCafferty
#53. On the one hand the younger son realizes that he has lost the dignity of his sonship, but at the same time that sense of lost dignity makes him also aware that he is indeed the son who had dignity to lose, (pp. 49).
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#54. I've already made my decision. I have as much to lose as any of them." "She makes some good points," said Cinder. "Surprisingly," added Scarlet. Jacin
Marissa Meyer
#55. I'm always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.
Robert Kiyosaki
#56. She stretched her hands towards the sky. To grab all the stars, to hold the moon, to take away everything that the sky had. So that the sky could finally understand, how it feels to lose everything that makes it beautiful.
Akshay Vasu
#57. Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation
Jean Cocteau
#58. It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.
Johnny Cash
#60. When you lose someone important, not everything makes sense. Being angry was easier than being hurt. Being alone was easier than letting people get too close.
Audrey Bell
#61. You will lose not because of your abilities but because of your lack of desire to participate.
Debasish Mridha
#62. Never lose your heart, Elena. No matter if the world tells you it makes you weak. Immortals have so much power. It is good to have a weakness.
Nalini Singh
#63. There's a point of no return when you're cooking tomatoes. A little too much heat, a little too long in the pot, and you lose that sense of fresh ripeness that makes tomatoes so great.
Geoffrey Zakarian
#64. Highlight reels are about that one person. After a barrage of highlight reels, you get the sense that you can do it without a team. But music thrived the most when groups were involved. People lose sight of that - that community makes the world run.
Questlove
#65. There's something about being amid the chaos and the horror of a war that makes you appreciate all you don't have - and all you may lose forever.
Tim O'Brien
#66. Never regard something as doing you good if it makes you betray a trust, or lose your sense of shame, or makes you show hatred, suspicion, ill will, or hypocrisy, or a desire for things best done behind closed doors.
Anonymous
#67. I realize we lose our innocence in many ways, the most painful being when we realize those who are supposed to love us and care for us more than anything, really care for themselves and their own pleasures more. It's painful because it makes you realize how alone you really are.
V.C. Andrews
#68. Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor.
David Levithan
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