Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can’t. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn’t want to fight somebody.
There are matches you have to win, but when you realise that you cannot win, you have to make sure you don’t lose.
No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague, nagging sense that there are an overwhelming number of things to be done, all of which are on the brink of being forgotten.
I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision making is that people’s attitudes and feelings about losses and gains are really not symmetric. So we really feel more pain when we lose $10,000 than we feel pleasure when we get $10,000.
Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
Most of the time, I’m making music. There’ll be moments of my life where I feel like I gotta to take a break and come back to the music. It’s hard to explain, but you need to get a break from it and then come back to it. It’s like you gotta lose something to appreciate it.
The one who intimidates me is myself. I’m scared to fail. That is the thing that makes me the most afraid, to fail. Just to think that I can do a mistake and lose the fight scares me, so that is why I work out a lot: to bring more chance to my size and less chance to my opponent.
You know, when you make the show, honestly, it’s to entertain, but it’s to win. So what’s the point to make the show and lose actually?
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous; there’s really nothing to lose.
In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.
Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
I was a diabetic for 16 years, since I was 14. Being that I lost weight, no more diabetes. You don’t have to lose your eyesight, cut off your toes, have a stroke, get kidney failure. You just have to lose weight – you know – for most of the diabetes.
We all lose when bullying and personal attacks become a substitute for genuine conversation and principled disagreement.
I grew up in the South, and our way of dealing with each other was teasing, ribbing, making fun and scrapping in the street. Criticism doesn’t bother me so much. It actually made me, when I was younger, more aggressive. But you get into middle age, and you lose interest in that stuff. It’s not serious.
Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.
I would prefer to win not playing well than to lose while doing so.
Control what you can control. Don’t lose sleep worrying about things that you don’t have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won’t have any control over them.
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.
Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas – to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
You have to be committed or you fall behind, lose out.
Experts say that if children can’t read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.
Most pesticides lose their efficacy after a few years, because of pest resistance to pesticides. This is why companies go on changing the varieties.
If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself. But if it’s a slow pace, and I get beaten by a kicker who leaches off the front, then I’ll always wonder, ‘What if…?’
We win together as a team, and we lose together as a team.
Don’t be afraid – if you don’t exercise your rights, you will lose them.
Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you’re prepared to lose.
It is not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose.
The first lesson is that you can’t lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can’t win a war if you haven’t.
If I want to go to Europe and get thrashed by the Europeans, that’s my business. Every race I lose I learn from and get tougher.
So you can’t lose serving God, and that all things work together for good.
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Italians can not beat us, but we can certainly lose against them.
There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything.
People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job ’cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.
You can be an absolute woman and also be smart and tough and not lose your femininity.
A lot of people don’t see, when we lose and go through tough times, how upset and disappointed we are.
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.
I have 16 plays, and we don’t ever do subtitles. You can’t do subtitles in the theater, so I was like, ‘I’m not gonna do subtitles.’ You’ll never lose the story. There might be a little joke that you might miss, but you’ll never miss the story, even in the Spanglish of it.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day; this is where most people will make their first big mistake if they’re trying to lose weight.
If you’re not big enough to lose, you’re not big enough to win.
For me, relationship is very important. I can lose money, but I cannot lose a relationship. The test is, at the end of a conversation or a negotiation, both must smile.
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
Civility, politeness, it’s like a cement in a society: binds it together. And when we lose it, then I think we all feel lesser and slightly dirty because of it.
We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.
Everything I do comes from the clubs. If I lose that, I’m done.
I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.
I know life goes on if you make a big bet and you lose. But if you don’t give yourself the best chance of winning, you’re going to kick yourself tomorrow.
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
We’ve got to keep our eye on what’s happening with Russia and North Korea. We cannot lose sight of domestic policy, either. Healthcare. Immigration. Climate change.
The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.
Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.
If we lose track when it comes to deciding when to stop, that should be a sign.
Where would we be without inhibitions? They’re quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.
So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don’t get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.
The world’s a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.
I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.
