Top 595 Lose Quotes

Fraud really thrives in moments of great social change and transition. We’re in the midst of a technological revolution. That gives con artists huge opportunities. People lose their frame of reference for what can and can’t be real.

I grew up quickly at St. Mirren. I realized that if we got relegated, it wasn’t just me who was affected, it was the people at the club who could lose their livelihood and whole families could suffer because of it.

In Giacometti’s work, the armature has once again become the life-line of the sculpture, and also, he’s brought back to sculpture a nervous sensitivity which the ‘pure carving’ side of sculpture can lose sight of altogether.

The longer the game went on, you got the feeling that neither side really wanted to lose.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Come on, come on! And there’ll be no turning back! You were only killing time and it can kill you right back. Come on, come on! It’s time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there’s really nothing to lose. There’s no wrong you can’t make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There’s no bounds.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

I didn’t lose weight for my career or a relationship – I did it to be happy and, as Oprah says, to live my best life.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

In football, you win as a group, you lose as a group; you divide the credit and the blame.

If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn’t lose focus. That made the difference.

There’s never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

Here’s the deal: when conservatives lose elections, they change their strategy. When liberals lose elections, they want to change the rules.

When you lose a parent, you realize how vital they are to the foundation of your life. It’s impossible to understand what it means until that curtain is pulled. You’re an orphan. But then I think that life is kind of remarkable, and the thing that causes the biggest pain can also bring amazing energy.

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

I actually stopped working out because I don’t want to lose my jelly.

You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don’t have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you’ve finished, nothing’s changed. You’ve still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don’t count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.

Everyone in our clique rocks a black bandana with the print ‘EST 19XX’ on them 24/7. As the underdog, you are expected to lose or give up and ‘wave the white towel,’ so that is why our flag is black. We never give up – never surrender. EST means ‘Everyone Stands Together.’ The ’19XX’ is to represent any age.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

It’s the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

Once you step foot on the Supreme Court steps, you lose your first-amendment rights. I don’t see how, as an American citizen, you can’t go to the Supreme Court steps and speak your mind or speak your piece peacefully.

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, ‘Just wait.’

If we don’t reach out to make theatre affordable to the young generation, we will lose them all.

Computers are scary. They’re nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.

I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Obviously, I was disappointed to lose the captaincy. I was very proud to be captain of my country.

I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, ‘Don’t lose heart, God has his own plans.’ Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.

As a quarterback, you have to have a short memory. Don’t lose your confidence, and stay within yourself. Don’t try to do too much.

It’s hard to win a pennant, but it’s harder to lose one.

Every single match, win, lose or draw, there’s something that we can improve on, and it’s about us addressing that straight after the match.

I’ve won; I’ve lost. I’m at the point where I do what I believe in and, win or lose, believe in what I do.

Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul.

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

When we are young there’s a certain freshness we lose with the years.

There are two ways that lack of sleep affects my play: I’ll play too many hands and I’ll lose the ability to effectively read my opponents.

If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

I don’t know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we’ve been talking, I think that’s really fun.

Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

I don’t have any ego about it, but I find there’s not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you’re dead.

Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It’s enough to make you lose your mind day by day.

I don’t know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It’s up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.

When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don’t feel very good.

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it’s off the better.

Nobody wants to lose to bloody Rochdale.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

I can’t cruise no more. You cruise, you lose.

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don’t want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There’s no faking that kind of emotion. You can’t invent the feeling. It’s got to be natural, real.

Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win, sometimes you are unlucky, but that’s life.

I’ve found a woman I can relate to. That’s something – and I don’t even feel sappy saying it – that, if anyone has that, don’t lose it, because it’s probably the only thing that you can ever really find any satisfaction from.

I can’t say, ‘It doesn’t matter if you win or lose.’ It’s not true. You go in to win.

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

I’ve been through a couple of mergers – they’re not that fun. And it’s easy to lose your focus on this grandiose mission you established for yourself as an independent company.