Losing Quotes

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

The disappointment of losing is huge.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

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

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it.

The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.

I hate losing.

I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.

I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.

All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.

When I left Merrill Lynch, one of the things that upset me the most wasn't losing my job. It was not being able to see those people the following day. It was almost like divorcing 40 people.

Nobody feels any worse than I do about losing.

I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it.

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.

I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.

Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.