Losing Quotes - Page 34

• Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.

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  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Teacher, Inspiration

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• Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Inspiration, Losing A Loved One, Dying

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• There's a lot of fear-mongering about "losing control" of your brand online, when, in fact, you've got control over as much as you always have: how you present your business and how you act.

  Jay Baer

  Losing Control, Fear Mongering, Marketing

  Jay Baer, Amber Naslund (2011). “The NOW Revolution: 7 Shifts to Make Your Business Faster, Smarter and More Social”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons

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• There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Men, Greed, Gains

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• If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.

  Robert Hewison

  Past, Yesterday, Creative

  Robert Hewison (1987). “The heritage industry: Britain in a climate of decline”, Methuen

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• We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.

  Hannes Alfven

  Philosophy, Science, Discipline

  "Hannes Alfvén: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents". Book by Anthony L. Peratt, p. 192, 1998.

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• It's important to recognize your own self-destructive behavior and be honest about it. You're only hurting yourself or losing out on your truth and happiness. I'm not afraid to face my own personal stuff. It's so important to dig it up and figure it out and move on.

  Christina Aguilera

  Hurt, Moving, Self

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• A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Winning

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• You probably have started losing touch with humility when your friends start avoiding you without telling you why.

  Albert Kanene Obiefuna

  Humble, Humility, Avoiding

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• Perhaps losing integrity with yourself is the greatest stress of all, far more hurtful to us than competition, time pressure, or lack of respect. Our vitality is rooted in our integrity. When we do not live in one piece, our life force becomes divided. Becoming separated from our authentic values may weaken us.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Stress, Integrity, Competition

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• A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Wisdom, Truth, Lying

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1879 - 1880.

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• An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gratitude, Revenge, Games

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.60

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• If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Loss, Animal

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• The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go to Europe and get hammered.

  Frank Shorter

  Running, Europe, Bob

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• If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.

  Paavo Nurmi

  Running, Athlete, Winning

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• And increasingly - you know this and so do I we're losing the youth everywhere. They hate us; they are not interested in having more fears and guilt laid on them. They're not interested in more sermons and exhortations. But they are interested in learning about love. How can I be happy? How can I live? How can I taste the marvelous things that the mystics speak of?

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Hate, Guilt

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• The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other, man fails to achieve the balance necessary for harmonious development... Practice the art of living in this world without losing your inner peace of mind. Follow the path of balance to reach the inner wondrous garden of Self-Realization.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Art

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• One in three Canadian teens are bullied. That's nearly two million young Canadians who are teased and excluded. Nearly two million who are silenced in the classroom, losing out on their education.

  Shawn Desman

  Powerful, Two, Three

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• There is provided an escape from the narrowness and poverty of the individual life, and the possibility of a life which is other and larger than our own, yet which is most truly our own. For, to be ourselves, we must be more than ourselves. What we call love is, in truth . . . the losing of our individual selves to gain a larger self.

  John Caird

  Powerful, Love Is, Self

  John Caird (1894). “An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion”

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• ...losing through you what seemed myself, i find selves unimaginably mine; beyond sorrow's own joys and hopings very fears yours is the light by which my spirit's born: yours is the darkness of my soul's return... you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

  e. e. cummings

  Soulmate, Stars, Moon

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• The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated. Kids turn up unrehearsed, wearing the wrong clothes, singing out of tune and you can either say, "Good job" and patronize them or tell them the truth, and sometimes the truth is perceived as mean.

  Simon Cowell

  Jobs, Mean, Kids

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• I will never take the fact that I am Welterweight Champion for granted. I learnt my mistake in the past. No matter how great, no matter how people tell me how great I am, I'm always one mistake away from losing everything.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Mistake, Wrestling, Past

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• It doesn't make you bad losing to Rob Van Dam... it just makes you like everybody else.

  Rob Van Dam

  Wrestling, Dams, Vans

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• We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. This seems to be close to the heart of that mystery. I know no more now than I ever did about the far side of death as the last letting-go of all, but now I know that I do not need to know, and that I do not need to be afraid of not knowing. God knows. That is all that matters.

  Frederick Buechner

  Death, Letting Go, Heart

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• Losing's a great motivator.

  Yogi Berra

  Sports, Inspirational Sports

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