Losing Quotes
2661 Losing quotes by 1801 unique authors
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Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way…
— Paulo Coelho
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How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your…
— Charles Dickens
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The more my dream are fulfilled the quicklier they become realities losing their shine.
— Ai Yazawa
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We are afraid of losing what we have.
— Paulo Coelho
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Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing.
— Portia de Rossi
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Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
— Confucius
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In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is…
— Wendell Berry
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Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
— Karl Lagerfeld
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Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.
— Amy Sedaris
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Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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And then, as the room went black, I was suddenly hyperaware that Edward was sitting less than an inch from me. I was stunned by…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he leaned in to kiss her,…
— Nicholas Sparks
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The key isn't winning -- or losing, it's making the attempt. I may never be what I ought to be, want to be -- but…
— Chris Claremont
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Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.
— Walker Percy
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And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find…
— Sylvia Plath
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...fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just…
— Mitch Albom
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Somehow, she had grown into a woman in between the fall of kings and collapse of worlds. Once she had been terrified of change. Then…
— Brandon Sanderson
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It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.
— Annie Proulx
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"I have no fear of losing u, for you aren't an object of my property, or anyone else's. I love you as you are, without…
— Anthony de Mello
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I don't remember you being this reasonable before, " Lissa said. "It's because everyone has different definitions of 'reasonable. ' Mine's just misunderstood, that's all.…
— Richelle Mead
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ʺYour hair was beautiful too. All of you. You were amazing when we first met, and somehow, inexplicably, youʹve come even farther. Youʹve always been…
— Richelle Mead
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School was more than academics; an education prepared you for the humdrum of real life: working with others, tempering one's personality to assimilate with the…
— Melissa de la Cruz
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Life does not play with marked cards.Winning or losing is part of it.
— Paulo Coelho
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