Explore Quotes on Loss

The glory of sport comes from dedication, determination and desire. Achieving success and personal glory in athletics has less to do with wins and losses than it does with learning how to prepare yourself so that at the end of the day, whether on the track or in the office, you know that there was nothing more you could have done to reach your ultimate goal.

Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem.

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties

In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge and skills ignored and denigrated, and experiencing development with a great sense of trauma, loss and social disconnectedness.

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.

You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension. Or perhaps your very success became empty and meaningless and so turned out to be a failure.

If all that you see, do, measure and discover is the will of a deity, then ideas can never be proven wrong, you have no predictive power, and you are at a loss to understand the principles behind most of the fundamental interconnections of nature.

The only cure for grief is action.

Great teams work harder after a tough loss.

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Feed sparingly and defy the physician.

If you think you are beaten you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, it is almost certain you won't.

You can't do it all yourself. Don't be afraid to rely on others to help you accomplish your goals.

I don't diet. I just don't eat as much as I'd like to.