Quotes About Losing

Debunking bad science should be constant obligation of the science community, even if it takes time away from serious research or seems to be a losing battle.

The truth is, you see, however much they would beg to disagree humans don't actually like to win. Or rather, they like winning for ten seconds, but if they keep on winning, they end up actually having to think about other things, like life and death. The only thing humans like less than winning is losing, but at least something can be done about that. With absolute winning, there is nothing to be done. They just have to deal with it.

Most histories of war are written by the victors who, by the very fact that they have won, are prone to discount atrocities committed by their side, minimize their opportunistic or selfish motives in waging the war, and denigrate the qualities of the losing side.

But our disagreements about merit are not only about fairness. They are also about how we define success and failure, winning and losing—and about the attitudes the winners should hold toward those less successful than themselves. These are highly charged questions, and we try to avoid them until they force themselves upon us.

Trend trader Larry Hite put it another way: "There are four kinds of bets. There are good bets, bad bets, bets that you win, and bets that you lose.

He would come out of this campaign, Trump assured Ailes, with a far more powerful brand and untold opportunities. "This is bigger than I ever dreamed of," he told Ailes in a conversation a week before the election. "I don't think about losing because it isn't losing. We've totally won." What's more, he was already laying down his public response to losing the election: It was stolen!

In politics somebody has to lose, but invariably everybody thinks they can win. And you probably can't win unless you believe that you will win—except in the Trump campaign.

He wasn't going to win! Or losing was winning.

In politics somebody has to lose, but invariably everybody thinks they can win. And you probably can't win unless you believe that you will win - except for the Trump campaign.

I think that the habit of gloomy poetry is very funny. It's like a special competition in losing.

Some games are fun even when you lose. Even when you know you're going to lose before you start. It's fun just playing them.

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.

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

I won the only duel I ever lost.

But that was the beauty of this particular game. The moment you lost, you won.

I could never take a chance of losing love to find romance.