Motivational Quotes

Losers and losing

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

- Hayden, B. R.

Best Quotes about Losers and losing

1.

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

Newman, Paul

2.

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.

3.

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

Bradley, Bill

4.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

5.

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

Palmer, Jim

6.

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

7.

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

Durocher, Leo

8.

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

Shakespeare, William

9.

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

Layne, Bobby

10.

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

Lucan, F. L.

11.

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

12.

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

Frost, Robert

13.

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

Riley, Pat

14.

It's the good loser who finally loses out.

Hubbard, Kin

15.

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

Ditka, Mike

16.

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

Victoria, Queen

17.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

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

Ivanisevic, Goran

19.

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

Hitopadesa

20.

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

Hayden, B. R.

21.

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

22.

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

Ali, Muhammad

23.

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

Riley, Pat

24.

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

Shultz, George

25.

We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.

Hirohito

26.

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

Graf, Steffi

27.

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Ciano, Galeazzo

28.

The cheerful loser is the winner.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

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

30.

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

Whately, Richard

31.

I hate to lose more than I love to win.

Connors, Jimmy

32.

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

Louis, Joe

33.

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

Paterno, Joe

34.

Knute Rockne liked bad losers. He said good losers lose too often.

Allen, George E.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

All the world loves a good loser.

Hubbard, Kin

38.

When I lose a match, I know that I lose on the court and not in life.

Sabatini, Gabriela

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

Davis, Eric

44.

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

45.

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