Quotes on Losing

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.

To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not losing its infinity. If this meeting is dissolved, then things become unreal.

Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

Losing Bogey was horrible, obviously. Because he was young. And because he gave me my life. I wouldn't have had a - I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't met him. I would have had a completely different kind of life. He changed me, he gave me everything. And he was an extraordinary man.

I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.

There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

The key isn't winning -- or losing, it's making the attempt. I may never be what I ought to be, want to be -- but how will I know unless I try? Sure, it's scary, but what's the alternative? Stagnation - A safer, more terrible form of death. Not of the body, but of the spirit. An animal knows what it is, and accepts it. A man may know what he is -- but he questions. He dreams. He strives. Changes. Grows.

We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.

Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

Many things are lost for want of asking.

I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don't care whether it's ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored.

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

It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.

There is no use in running before you are sent; there is no use in attempting to do God's work without God's power. A man working without this unction, a man working without this anointing, a man working without the Holy Ghost upon him, is losing time after all.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.