Losing Quotes - Page 30

• I think I'm losing it—I don't know what's happening, what happened, but I look at you, I look at you, and I love you so much. Not because of anything you've said, or done, or anything at all. I look at you, and I just love you, and it terrifies me. It terrifies me what I would do for you.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Love You, Thinking, Looks

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• she sighs, then breaks a piece off the muffin in my hand. 'Hey. There are plenty more just five feet to your right.' 'then you shouldn't be so concerned about losing some of yours.' she says, grinning. 'Fair enough.

  Veronica Roth

  Hands, Feet, Hey

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• It’s like losing gravity and falling into space – the moment of pitching headlong when the endlessness of space asserts itself and there is no more down, only an eternity of up, and you realize you can fall forever and never run out of stars.

  Laini Taylor

  Love, Running, Stars

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• I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Positive, Sports, Winning

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• Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Time, Lost, Valuable

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.81, Algonquin Books

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• One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Time, Nice, Thinking

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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• The Bible is to us what the star was to the wise men; but if we spend all our time in gazing upon it, observing its motions, and admiring its splendor, without being led to Christ by it, the use of it will be lost on us.

  Thomas Adams

  Inspirational, Bible, Christian

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• Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

  Knute Rockne

  Inspirational, Football, Loser

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• We will have to become 'perpetual marketers', to learn to be channel and data planners without losing our human insight or creativity; to vastly increase the level of accountability and provide more relevant experiences for customers.

  John Woodward

  Business, Creativity, Data

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• If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

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• Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

  Arthur Ashe

  Failure, Inward, Defeat

  Arthur Ashe (1995). “Arthur Ashe on Tennis: Strokes, Strategy, Traditions, Players, Psychology, and Wisdom”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• It is to hope, though hope were lost.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Hope, Lost Hope, Lost

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.74

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• There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them,
  and that's not training them and keeping them

  Zig Ziglar

  Funny, Leadership, Learning

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

  Bill Bradley

  Sports, Sunset, Winning

  Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.108, RosettaBooks

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• I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.

  Pat Summitt

  Sports, Hate, Sick

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.179, Crown Business

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• The more you lose, the more positive you have to become. When you're winning, you can ride players harder because their self-esteem is high. If you are losing and you try to be tough, you're asking for dissension.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Self Esteem, Winning

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• Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Winning, Coaching

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.194, Crown Business

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• Losing is only temporary and not encompassing. You must simply study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the same way again. Then you must have the self-control to forget about it.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Self, Coaching

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• The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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• It is very important not to think about losing.

  Venus Williams

  Thinking, Tennis, Important

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• All my career I've gone to teams on the decline. I went to Quebec when they were losing the Stastny brothers. I went to Edmonton after they lost Gretzky and Messier. I went to Anaheim when it was an expansion team. I came to Montreal after they'd won the Cup and were headed down. I was beginning to think it was me.

  Ron Tugnutt

  Brother, Team, Hockey

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• I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Technology, Suffering, Progress

  1921 Speech, 13 Oct.

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• Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat.

  Robert Collier

  Men, Overwhelming Desire, Air

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• It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses they put themselves in position to make large gains.

  Max Gunther

  Loss, Winning, Games

  Max Gunther (2010). “The Luck Factor: Why Some People Are Luckier Than Others and How You Can Become One of Them”, p.166, Harriman House Limited

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• Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win.

  Brett Hull

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hockey

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