Quotes About Losing

Now if I seem to be afraid To live the life that I have made in song Well it's just that I've been losing so long.

The whole notion, the whole concept of individual liberty is gone. The whole concept of limited government is gone. The whole concept of the Bill of Rights, the whole concept that the purpose of the Constitution is to limit the government, not limit the people. If you're on the verge of thinking we're losing that, then to me, that's it. That's ballgame. That's nutshell.

Any game has a limited number of winners and a potentially unlimited number of losers.

I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.

I'm not a bad person." Zagaev looked up at me with imploring eyes. Claims of ethical purity are a common strategy in games like this. But they're paper, forever losing to scissors.

Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.

On athleticism, God knows no favor. It seems rather he is in the business of teaching winners how to lose and losers how to win.

At City, when I was playing, I knew that at some point, the substitution board would go up, and I was going to come off because the manager didn't have trust in me. Then, you start to lose your confidence on the pitch.

Because there really are only two choices. We win and they lose – or else, they win and we lose." "There's a third possibility." "What?" he demanded aggressively. "We all lose.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

Winning is like an addiction, but I'm also afraid of losing.

Politics, as he occasionally said, required three unchanging talents and no virtues. More politicians, he claimed, had been destroyed by virtue than by any other cause; and the talents he enumerated in this fashion. The first talent was the ability to choose the winning side. Failing that, the second talent was the ability to extricate oneself from the losing side. And the third talent was never to make an enemy.

Diplomacy between a powerful, victorious army and a side that's losing doesn't really work well.

Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.

She was an irresistible dichotomy of sweet charm and heart-stopping sexy, and she threw him off guard with every look, be it a smile or a glare. In fact, he kinda liked when she gave him dirty looks, which meant he was seriously losing his shit. And he never lost his shit.

When power becomes the goal over service, self-interest over public interest, conflicts of interest over the common good, winning and losing over mutuality and compromise, and personal narcissism over shared benefit, we are headed for deep trouble. Autocratic behavior becomes more acceptable and even admired by people who are already subject to anxiety and anger. And before long, the road to authoritarian rule is a threat to freedom.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

You try to find reasons to trust because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.

A little bit of jealousy in a relationship is healthy, it's always nice to know that someone's afraid of losing you!

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.

When you don't win games, yeah, you lose confidence. That's normal.

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.