Quotes About Losing

What's the point of dating without games? How do you know if you're winning or losing?

Death can be experienced once, winning maybe more, but losing can happen all the time.

God wants us to flourish, and paradoxically we flourish best by obeying rather than rebelling, by giving more than receiving, by serving rather than being served. Six times in the Gospels Jesus iterated the deeper truth that we succeed not by acquiring more and more but by "losing" life through service to God and others.

That's the beauty of the play-offs, it's the fear of losing that drives you forwards.

NBA is totally different in style. In NBA, we play much more aggressive, much harder. It's not time for thinking. In Europe, we play every week, one game. Here we play every second day so if you lose, you don't have time to think about losing. Just go forward.

Did you lose the game? Losing's the same as winning; you know that, don't you?" The

True love is sacrifice. It is in giving, not in getting; in losing, not in gaining; in realizing, not in possessing, that we love!

You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.

Leadership is responsible. Losing is unacceptable. Passion is unquenchable. Creativity is essential. Quitting is unthinkable. Commitment is unquestionable. Victory is inevitable.

True, there was a vague assumption that doing so would bring me closer to God, but then who was God when he was at home? And why did he keep losing it with his chosen people, when he could easily have changed his mind, and picked a more co-operative bunch?

Obsession is feeling fearful that you may be losing him; detachment is knowing that he may be losing you; and apathy is the past tense of both.

People call it 'jealousy' I call it 'fear of losing you.'

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

I think I was the worst loser of all time. I couldn't stand it.

You're the favorite when you've won, you're the loser when you lost.

Losers don't get to talk, man.

I believe that some athletes have fear, but you have to work on that. Athletes can't have fear. Fear of what? Fear of losing? Everybody loses one day.

Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.

When you're winning, anything you say has value. When you're losing, the less you say, the better.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

If not wisdom then certainly truth. If you've nothing to lose you've nothing to fear losing.

We hardly said anything, we seemed to communicate through the chessmen, there was something very symbolic about my winning. That he wished me to feel. I don't know what it was. I don't know whether it was that he wanted me to see my "virtue" triumphed over his "vice" or something subtler, that sometimes losing is winning.

One of the things that separates climbing from other sports is how independent and personal it is. With most sports, you either win or lose, but climbing is about your own personal experience.

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.