Top 210 Loses Quotes

I must learn to love the fool in me – the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage – to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

I’ve beaten a lot of great fighters, but people say the big ones, I’ve lost them all. I don’t want to go down as a guy who loses his big fights.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

I’m not one of those actors who gets physically fit for a role and then loses it all again.

I’m not a city kind of guy. I’m happiest when I’m tromping through the woods. That’s why I don’t live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.

Obama’s ability to use his personality to push folks, whether on Capitol Hill or in Europe, means that he has to stay popular. What happens if he loses that popular mandate?

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

I think when a musician loses their inhibition and dives deep into their soul, that’s a prayer. It’s so powerful that you will touch people whether it’s good or bad.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

Once the public loses confidence in a president’s leadership at a time of war, once they don’t trust him anymore, once his credibility is sharply diminished, how does he get it back?

When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing them in their legitimate occupation.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Playing quarterback is a glamorous job. It’s awesome. It’s everything I dreamed it would be. But after a while, it loses its glamour. Somewhere along those 15 years, it becomes a job. Especially at the end, it became work. Game day was awesome, but all the rest of it was work.

I’m very used to stages and dressing rooms. And dare I say it, much as I like being at home, I love the buzz of a new hotel room. It never quite loses its thing.

Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, ‘The Tempest’ loses much of its resonance.

Coach isn’t the one playing. The players do that. The coach can only help with planning so if the team loses, I don’t think the coach is not as accountable as we hold him as a nation.

Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.

If all countries are exceptional, the word loses its meaning.

If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling.

Nobody loses money on my movies. I make them cheap.

Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.

I do think that the audience thinks it’s funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.

Network neutrality protects the ability of users to access the lawful content, applications, and services of their choice. In other words, it lets users determine who wins and loses in the marketplace, and that’s the way it should be.

We’ve organized ourselves as cultures, to a large degree, around what we agree we know. And when you have multiple ways of knowing, multiple ways of organizing, the society loses one of its deepest organizational principles.

I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.

He that fears death loses the joys of life.

I rarely think that when a guy loses a fight, it’s a weight issue. You can either fight, or you can’t.

If you can even manage to tell exactly what a song is about, all you do is put that song in a box forever, and it loses its evocative power.

Every time a child’s promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.

The gun lobby is certainly politically powerful, but it loses as many races as it wins.

It’s hard talking about acting, in a way, because it’s like explaining a joke: I do think it loses something in the telling.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

People tend to think about trade as if it’s competition between companies – if Apple wins, Google loses. But that’s false. Trade makes nations better off in general. Now, I want to be clear. I’m not saying that everything about trade is good and beneficial. Trade also has costs.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

So what if America loses its empire? We never should have had one in the first place.

I think of myself as a democratic capitalist, although I think the word ‘socialism’ loses its meaning every time that it is used to describe literally any policy left of far right by the current Republicans.

A writer loses possession of her work as soon as it’s reaches its audience. Each reader brings his own experience and prejudice and imagination to the work. Television adaptation just goes one step further, and the novelist has to learn to let go.

It’s very important that you focus on winning games and being consistent down the stretch. I think that’s what we’re focused on. All of the other stuff about who wins and who loses and how many wins do we need, if we’re focusing on that, then that’s not good.

If stocks double but the dollar loses half its value, who beyond Wall Street are the winners and losers?

A club like ours loses £8-10m every year to be competitive, and nobody wants to keep a business that is losing money every year.

When I am on E! for the ‘Fashion Police,’ I only care about being a critic. It loses me many friends.

I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

I’ve learned that ‘love’ is used a lot in the States for everything: ‘I love that burger,’ ‘I love my shoes,’ ‘I love a friend.’ To me, if it’s overused, it loses meaning.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.

Nobody wins or loses a match; it’s the team that wins or loses. You have to be looking to contribute towards the team goal.

From my three loses in my entire career I’ve always learned from them and came back stronger.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

I’m not an enemy of formations and tactics because they are important – but you get to the point where the whole system loses balance.

It’s the fight game, and everyone loses. You win some, you lose some. You just try to get back up on the horse.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning.

White America is tortured by black America’s failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a substantial quota of white America loses its own footing in the middle class and plunges into the rough country of joblessness, hopelessness, and government dependency.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us – when we succeed, it betrays us.

The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural… The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.

God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.

In ‘Talvar’, my character loses his daughter and it was quite an intense role. I had to concentrate and I would request all the unit members to stay silent before the take.