Losing Quotes

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

  Arthur Ashe

  Life, Motivation, Winning

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

  Donald Trump

  Success, Veterans Day, Motivation

  Donald Trump (2016). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.165, Random House

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• I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Feb 18, 2013

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  The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Positive, Sports

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3045, Library of Alexandria

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  When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

  Billy Graham

  Health, Character, Wealth

  Twitter post from May 25, 2015

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  If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

  Charles Bukowski

  Life, Sunset, Thought Provoking

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• I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.

  Mia Farrow

  Hard Times, Tough Times, Life Is

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

  Julie Delpy

  Relationship, Romantic, Single

  "Fast Food Dating Your 2 Cents". Book by Peter Sacco and Jennifer Schott, 2011.

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• Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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• I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.

  Adnan Pachachi

  Confidence, Thinking, Class

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• Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

  Ludwig Borne

  Life, Truth, Sunset

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• Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

  Henry Miller

  Fear, Inspiration, Giving

  Henry Miller (1972). “The Henry Miller reader”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

  Vin Scully

  Sports, Sunset, Winning

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• Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.

  Helene Cixous

  Broken Heart, Lost Love, Way

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• When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.

  Chris Cooper

  Flight, Best Work, Feels

  "Chris Cooper, Filling the Key Role in "Breach". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. February 15, 2007.

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• You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Anger, Sunset, Discipline

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

  George Brett

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

  Jean Kerr

  Success, Understanding, Situation

  Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957) introduction. Cf. Rudyard Kipling 126:13

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• It's not about winning or losing, but love and respect.

  Max Lucado

  Motivational, Respect, Winning

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• I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

  Roger Waters

  Competition

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• 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

  Fear, Winning, Greatness

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• That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

  Richard Bach

  Wisdom, Failure, Learning

  "The Bridge Across Forever". Book by Richard Bach, 1984.

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

  Jim Palmer

  Sports, Given, Palms

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• The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

  Aldous Huxley

  Birthday, Children, Mean

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