Losing Quotes

Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.

At a time when we are losing manufacturing jobs in this country, we should be doing everything we can to help our manufacturers stay competitive. They are the backbone of our economy.

There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman who's sort of losing it in a room.

We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.

Losing Michael Jackson is a handicap. It's the Lakers trying to win a championship without Kobe Bryant.

I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there.

And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.

There are three easy ways of losing money - racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain.

It's not winning or losing. It's the friends and the people that you meet along the way.

I mean, I'm lucky because I've slimmed down, but the last thing I was thinking about was losing weight.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed; I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don't get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.

I'm terrified of losing my voice.