Quotes of Losing - somelinesforyou

“ The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser. ”

- O. J. Simpson

“ Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it. ”

- Arthur Ashe

“ I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. ”

- Anais Nin

“ If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope. ”

- Max Gunther

“ Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy. ”

- Joe Paterno

“ Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. ”

- Ludwig Börne

“ Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season. ”

- Troy Aikman

“ Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best. ”

- Jim Palmer

“ The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. ”

- Elizabeth Bishop

“ If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out. ”

- George Brett

“ Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat. ”

- George Eliot

“ Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. ”

- Anais Nin

“ America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad. ”

- James Madison

“ Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ Let me show you how it's done… Loser! ”

- Babe Ruth

“ Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. ”

- Donald Trump

“ It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner. ”

- Vince Lombardi

“ I hate to lose more than I love to win. ”

- Jimmy Connors

“ Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost! ”

- Martina Navratilova

“ Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. ”

- Diane De Poitiers

“ The minute you start talking about what your going to do if you lose, you have lost. ”

- George Shultz

“ The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own. ”

- Bill Bradley

“ There is no doubt in my mind that there are many ways to be a winner, but there is really only one way to be a loser, and that is to fail and not look beyond the failure. ”

- Kyle Rote Jr.

“ All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers. ”

- William S. Burroughs

“ Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. ”

- Galeazzo Ciano

“ Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size. ”

- Mark Twain

“ One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. ”

- Samuel Butler
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