Browsing Topic Best Losing Quotes

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

I never lose. Either I win or I learn.

Vulnerability is not about winning, and it’s not about losing. It’s about having the courage to show up and be seen.

Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy does not reserve a plot for weeds

If no mistake you have made, losing you are. A different game you should play.

There is no losing. There are only opportunities to learn and grow.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying – lying to others and to yourself.

Losing can persuade you to change what doesn’t need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if you are on the brink of disaster.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!

It’s a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Losing is not my enemy, fear of losing is my enemy.

Boundaries are the lines we draw that mark off our autonomy and that of other people, that protect our privacy and that of others. Boundaries allow for intimate connection without dissolving or losing one’s sense of self.

If you fight you won’t always win. But if you don’t fight you will always lose

I believe that the voices of fear, both from without and within, can only be dispelled by trusting the voice that comes from the heart. Be still and listen to it. If it speaks of love and compassion for others, for the world itself, it just might be the voice of God – or a reasonable facsimile. If, however, it snarls with fear of the unknown, fear of losing what you have or of not getting what you want, then it just might be the voice of Rupert Murdoch – or a reasonable facsimile.

The way to get people’s votes is to say that all their problems are caused by other people, and that you will stop those other people from giving them trouble. But if you really want to help, then you can tell them the truth and risk losing their votes.

Winning provides happiness. Losing provides wisdom.

Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically – while bankers strike it rich.

If you can accept losing, you can’t win.

I never think about losing.

Losing doesn’t make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.

Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don’t run you’ve already lost.

I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time. . . I have also seen incredible forgiveness and compassion. Yes, each of us has the capacity for great evil. But for every act of evil there are a dozen acts of goodness in our world that go unnoticed. It is only because we believe that people should be good that we despair when they are not. Indeed, if people condoned the evil, we would be justified in losing hope. But most of the world does not. We know that we are meant for better.

The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us

We are all the subjects of impressions, and some of use seek to convey the impressions to others. In the art of communicating impressions lies the power of generalizing without losing that logical connection of parts to the whole which satisfies the mind.

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side