Motivational Quotes

Losers and losing

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

- Victoria, Queen

Best Quotes about Losers and losing

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

Paterno, Joe

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

Whately, Richard

The minute you start talking about what your going to do if you lose, you have lost.

Shultz, George

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? is not this also a return?

Epictetus

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

Twain, Mark

Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser.

Newman, Paul

The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.

Hayden, B. R.

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

Ditka, Mike

I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose.

Davis, Eric

10.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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No wise person should make known the loss of fortune, any malpractice in their house, his being cheated, or having been disgraced.

Hitopadesa

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You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

Riley, Pat

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If a man falls once, all will tread upon him.

Fuller, Thomas

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When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

Graf, Steffi

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I never lost a game. I just ran our of time.

Layne, Bobby

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Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

Frost, Robert

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When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Motto

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Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

Lucan, F. L.

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No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

Ali, Muhammad

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Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

Riley, Pat

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There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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It's the good loser who finally loses out.

Hubbard, Kin

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The cheerful loser is the winner.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.

Louis, Joe

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The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Bishop, Elisabeth

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All the world loves a good loser.

Hubbard, Kin

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Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.

Aikman, Troy

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When you are winning too much, sometimes you think you should never lose again. I am learning to lose.

Ivanisevic, Goran

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Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

Shakespeare, William

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What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Whoever said, It's not whether you win or lose that counts, probably lost.

Navratilova, Martina

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I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and, all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.

Bryant, Bear

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We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

Lee, Robert E.

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The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.

Simpson, O. J.

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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

Victoria, Queen

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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

Butler, Samuel

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There is no doubt in my mind that there are many ways to be a winner but there is really only one way to be a loser and that is to fail and not look beyond the failure.

Rote Jr., Kyle

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Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.

Durocher, Leo

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The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

Bradley, Bill

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Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Ciano, Galeazzo

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Shouda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.