Losing Quotes - Page 32

• Don't worry about losing. Think about winning.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Winning, Thinking

  Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.88, Hachette UK

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• When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Winning, Nuts

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• Our goal as a team is to keep playing as a group for as long as we can because you will never have that team again. It is like a dying limb, you have to prune it off and let another one grow in its place. That is the way you have to do it, but it still hurts losing these guys and that team because they and you have put so much effort into building a team. Even if you win that last game (and a national championship), it hurts badly because the players know they will never have that same special group of guys together on the same team again. Somebody always goes and somebody new always comes in.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Hurt, Team

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• After the clouds, the sunshine; after the winter, the spring; after the shower, the rainbow; for life is a changeable thing. After the night, the morning, bidding all darkness cease, after life's cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Sympathy, Morning, Spring

  Helen Steiner Rice (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.134, Revell

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• When I get older losing my hair many years from now. Will you still be sending me a Valentine. Birthday greetings, bottle of wine? If I'd been out till quarter to three would you lock the door? Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four?

  John Lennon

  Famous Love, Valentine, Wine

  "Fictional character: Paul". "Yellow Submarine", www.imdb.com. 1968.

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• When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty.

  Woody Allen

  Honesty, Weight Loss, Humanity

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

  Edmund Burke

  Evil, Vices, Half

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 113

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• In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Work, Anger, People

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• Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Echoes, Virtue, Repentance

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• God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they called it, which punished those who observed it - for observing it. The more you tried to live up to it, the more you suffered; the more you cheated it, the bigger reward you got. Your honesty was like a tool left at the mercy of the next man's dishonesty. The honest ones paid, the dishonest collected. The honest lost, the dishonest won. How long could men stay good under this sort of a law of goodness?

  Ayn Rand

  Honesty, Men, Law

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1765, Penguin

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• When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Government, Liberty

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.10, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight?

  Robert Southey

  Mother, Pain, Night

  Robert Southey (1829). “The poetical works of Robert Southey: complete in one volume”, p.322

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• O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what is this? Thou thoughtest of thy prowess and thy sins Thou hast not lost thyself to save thyself.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Mother, Humility, Son

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1851). “The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson”

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• The spirit of a warrior is not geared to indulging and complaining, nor is it geared to winning or losing. The spirit of a warrior is geared only to struggle, and every struggle is a warrior's last battle on earth. Thus the outcome matters very little to him. In his last battle on earth a warrior lets his spirit flow free and clear. And as he wages his battle, knowing that his intent is impeccable, a warrior laughs and laughs.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Struggle, Warrior

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Separate Reality”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• There are agencies who are good losers, places where losing is not only accepted, it becomes part of the culture, it is expected. That is debilitating. Don't let that happen to you. At Deutsch we go into every pitch assuming we are the Yankees. It's amazing what happens when you go into a room of smart, hungry people and say, "Failure is not an option." People are galvanized.

  Donny Deutsch

  Inspirational, Smart, Failure

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• When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.

  Seneca the Younger

  Friendship, Eye, Tears

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• A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm; judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Death, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Science, Two, Years

  "Edison Fears Hidden Perils of the X-Rays". "New York World" Newspaper, August 3, 1903.

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• If you're still doing what mommy and daddy said for you to do (go to school, get a job, and save money), you're losing.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Jobs, School

  Twitter post from Aug 13, 2013

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• A winning strategy must include losing.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Winning, Inspire

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• To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Money, Inspiration, Successful

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• I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will have taught my daughters to be that way, and I'm now constantly telling them not to do that.

  Amy Chua

  Daughter, Mother, Yelling

  "Amy Chua: 'I'm going to take all your stuffed animals and burn them!'". Interview with Heather Hodson, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2011.

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• Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

  Aristotle

  Revenge, Men, Evil

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• In one of the decisive battles of World War I, disastrous reports poured into the headquarters of Marshal Foch, the commander of the Allied forces. The great general never lost heart. When things were at their worst, he drafted his famous order which is now in all textbooks of military strategy: "My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, my left is wavering. The situation is excellent. I shall attack!"

  James Keller

  Military, War, Heart

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• Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give up the thought of fame; those that cleave to power cannot give the handle of it to others. While they hold their grasp of those things, they are afraid of losing them. When they let them go, they are grieved and they will not look at a single example, from which they might perceive the folly of their restless pursuits - such men are under the doom of heaven.

  Zhuangzi

  Giving Up, Men, Thinking

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