Loser Quotes - Page 24

• You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Confidence, Self Esteem

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• One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Fighting, Battle, Oneself

  Mario Vargas Llosa (2012). “Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter”, p.161, Faber & Faber

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• Tim was dead. And he's always been a loser. I'd be damned if I was going to be the victim of a loser - or anyone else.

  Patricia Briggs

  Victim, Ifs

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.1003, Penguin

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• I knew we’d wear them down,” Eve said. “After all, we really are amazingly cool.” And now it was Eve’s turn for the high five with Shane. “For a bunch of misfit geeks, slackers, and losers.” Which one are you?” Shane asked. She flipped him off. “Oh, right. Loser. Thanks for reminding me.

  Rachel Caine

  Thanks, Geek, Misfits

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.1909, Penguin

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• Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids.

  Steve Toltz

  Kids, Parent, Blame

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• Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.

  Sarah Palin

  Government, Competition, Needs

  Keynote Speech at the Inaugural Tea Party Convention, delivered 6 February 2010, Nashville, Tennessee

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• There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

  Robert Orben

  Funny, Work, Humor

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• If you have an orderly mind, you'll be a winner no matter where you end up. If your mind is a jumble of junk, you'll be a loser. It's as simple as that.

  Jack Gantos

  Simple, Mind, Junk

  Jack Gantos (1999). “Jack on the Tracks: Four Seasons of Fifth Grade”, p.19, Macmillan

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• We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems.

  Arthur O'Shaughnessy

  Life, Music, Dream

  'Ode" l. 7 (1874)

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• [I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

  Judy Blume

  Real, Book, Fire

  FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Oct 18, 2013

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• Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!

  Douglas Coupland

  Fate, Destiny

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “Girlfriend in a Coma: A Novel”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• If you can't dance then you are a loser.

  Harry S. Truman

  Ifs

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• God, let me remember all good losers.

  Carl Sandburg

  Remember, Let Me

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try.

  Dennis DeYoung

  Success, Basketball, Perseverance

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• O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Winning, Helping

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• Sorry, No conprendo I don't speak Loser.

  Lisi Harrison

  Sorry, Speak

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• Our nannas are losers.

  Barbara Park

  Barbara Park (2010). “Junie B. Jones #10: Junie B. Jones Is a Party Animal”, p.9, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of losers and nutcases who hide out here because they can't make it in the real world, in real jobs — isn't this why we left England in the first place? To establish our own alternate reality. Weren't the Pilgrims pretty much the crackpots of their time? For sure, instead of just wanting to believe something different about God's love, the losers I work with want to find salvation through compulsive behaviors.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Real, Believe

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• Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life.

  Joanna Russ

  Writing, Adventure, Men

  Joanna Russ (2005). “The Two of Them”, p.8, Wesleyan University Press

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• You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.

  Peter F. Hamilton

  Dream, Reality, Way

  Peter F. Hamilton (2008). “The Reality Dysfunction”, p.235, Pan Macmillan

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• I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for love that is freely offered because I somehow believe that if I don't ask for it, everyone will forget about me: I will be a little kid sent off to sleep-away camp whose parents forget to meet her at the bus when she comes back in August. Or else I think people are nice to me only to be nice to me, that they feel sorry for me because I am such a loser- as if anyone could possibly be that generous.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Sorry, Nice, Believe

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2007). “More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and let’s face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field – is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by almost anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good.

  Jasper Fforde

  Kindness, Evil, Serenity

  "The Eyre Affair". Book by Jasper Fforde, July 19, 2001.

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• Many people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some space for better people. It is a strange experience, that those who have left me have always left places for a better quality of people. I have never been a loser.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Space

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• Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Success, Encouragement, Motivation

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• It's a losers' game to try and guess, it really is.

  Mike Farrell

  Games, Trying

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