It’s okay to lose. Losing teaches you something. Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that’s what makes life interesting.
There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.
The line between winning and losing is very thin, and wins give you prestige, stability, and continuity.
Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
I think I’m wealthy. I make a good living for what I do. Well, it depends. If I’m doing an independent film I’m making no money – probably losing money. But if I’m doing a studio film, I’ll make a decent wage. I can live for a year without working.
I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will have taught my daughters to be that way, and I’m now constantly telling them not to do that.
I actually hated hunting the first time I went when I was a kid. My dad took us deer hunting. We sat there for 30 minutes, and I felt like I was losing my mind. But in college, I fell in love with it. Football became a full-time job, and I needed an escape. I needed something that would mellow me out.
When you’ve got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It’s fun!
Winning and losing isn’t everything; sometimes, the journey is just as important as the outcome.
I hate losing.
Donald Trump is already losing badly to Hillary Clinton. He is a weak candidate, and he’s performing that way.
I’ve been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.
You learn after losing quite a bit, year after year, that you have to continue to work hard, stay tough, and endure to the end before it’s going to work out.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
People should be faced with losing everything a little bit more often because it really helps put a lot of things into perspective.
I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that are not enforced. It is time that we make China play fairly.
When I feel like I’m doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you’re not so much losing yourself but you’re sort of in the zone.
I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.
For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning.
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.
People are branded as either ‘fat’ or ‘skinny’ from an early age. You sort of never shake it, even if you end up losing weight.
Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a serious matter.
‘Lost’ holds a very special place in people’s hearts and I wouldn’t presume to say that ‘FlashForward’ will replace ‘Lost.’ I think it provides a lot of the same adrenaline and fascination and entertainment. It will help ease the pain of losing ‘Lost!’ I think it will appeal to the very same audience.
I think that the day a justice forgets that each decision comes at a cost to someone, then I think you start losing your humanity.
I didn’t grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.
What really makes me happy now is my home. I know that I have that to lose. But I don’t see losing it. And I don’t care if I never do another movie. And I don’t care if I never get back on the road. I like to think that I’m gonna do that. But if I don’t, I can live with that.
My grandmother died from Alzheimer’s, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it is not an easy closure. It’s not a gradual fading. The person is losing so much of their humanity as they’re dying. Losing your memories, you lose so much of who you are as a person.
Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.
In 1917 – as we have seen, – Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.
From a very young age I’d learned to put on a brave face because of losing my mum. I’d always make jokes if anybody tried to throw sympathy at me.
For myself, losing is not coming second. It’s getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I’ve been in.
My mother battled cancer for 12 years before losing her fight.
If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.
Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people’s physical fitness and mental prowess.
If you’re losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
My son is in a band, and he’s a singer, and his vocals… they’re screaming-growling stuff… and he’s got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I’m, like, ‘Hats off to you.’
When you’re not winning, you’re losing.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
The last thing I ever thought would ever happen to me was losing my legs.
Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.
