Losing Quotes

It is not a person or situation that affects your life; it is the meaning you give to that person or situation, which influences your emotions and actions. Your choice is to change the meaning you gave it or to change your response, in order to create the outcome you want.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

~ Orson Scott Card

I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls to be careful and ”the world is an ugly place and not everyone wants you well”. But I was not afraid and I wished for adrenaline to make my veins pulsate in that way that puts them more on the outside of my skin than inside.After the first night with you I never walked alone at night again because suddenly I had something to lose. Something to save.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

As cliché as it might sound, I'd rather lose than win by cheating. The latter is a much deeper, more personal loss in that one is admittedly whispering to himself his lack of competence. His cheating then begets more cheating, as he is ever-privately, ever-subconsciously insulting himself; thus, gradually deteriorating any remaining confidence.

~ Criss Jami

Give yourself for the course of living for others, improving their lives, becoming a deliverer to a nation and you will never be at the losing end

~ Sunday Adelaja

So when they win, it's their hard workAnd when they lose, it's their bad luck

~ Sanhita Baruah

The trick, of course, is to lose one day and come back to win the next. But that is possible only when we draw healthy pleasure and confidence from our creative processes.

~ John H. Lienhard

The more you believe, the more you'll be leaving you, when what you believed turns out to be just lies. Or unjust lies. Or any lies, anyway.

~ Will Advise

On athleticism, God knows no favor. It seems rather he is in the business of teaching winners how to lose and losers how to win.

~ Criss Jami

Of course we'll win. And even if we were to lose, we'd win at losing.

~ Criss Jami

Moving on should be a required high school classbecause Lynchburg is determined to make me forget.

~ Taylor Rhodes

Losing one glove is certainly painful,but nothing compared to the pain,of losing one, throwing away the other,and finding the first one again.

~ Piet Hein

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

~ Dianne Feinstein

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

~ Alain De Botton

Loss invites reflection and reformulating and a change of strategies. Loss hurts and bleeds and aches. Loss is always ready to call out your name in the night. Loss follows you home and taunts you at the breakfast table, follows you to work in the morning. You have to make accommodations and broker deals to soften the rabbit punches that loss brings to your daily life. You have to take the word loser and add it to your resume and walk around with it on your name tag as it hand-feeds you your own shit in dosages too large for even great beasts to swallow. The word loser follows you, bird-dogs you, sniffs you out of whatever fields you hide in because you have to face things clearly and you cannot turn away from what is true.

~ Pat Conroy

Missing someone is the worst form of torture because it never goes away no matter where you are or what you do with your life. When a person is gone and all you have of them is a fuzzy recollection of what it was like to hear your phone buzz with texts from them, the joy you experienced while in their company, that instance when the bond you shared shattered, you long for all that was lost and could’ve been gained. You have memories and nothing more. And no matter how much times passes, you still feel the ache of their absence whenever they rise into your thoughts. Torture.

~ Caroline George

Maybe the thing that we’re losing is the very thing that has caused us to lose everything else in the first place.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Losing will not always amount to a loss, sometimes you have to lose those toxic relationships and bad habits to create a space for better things.

~ Gugu Mona

- Losing is all that's left, I say.- Losing is all we've got left to lose, you sayThe impossibility of not telling, I cannot do otherwise, one can only tell otherwise, with always the same need to make sense of what you've lost, the need not to lose this feeling of losing, the need to feel yourself not losing this feeling that you are still losing the irreplaceable.

~ Hélène Cixous

Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is knowing your value, instead of expecting a man’s love to provide you with value.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Inner peace has no correlation with success or failure—winning or losing.

~ Debasish Mridha

A true friend does not make you win by making you the winner to the detriment of the true winner. He makes sure that you become a loser, not because he likes the way you fail, but to enlighten you on how it feels to be treated that way and to demonstrate that love and respect are not exclusive.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Our goodness is our wealth and when we close our eyes to the tragedies of the hard lives, we start losing our wealth!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Winning and losing is not an external game. It is an internal battle over telling yourself the truth vs. lies regarding why you haven’t stepped into the life you dreamed of.

~ Shannon L. Alder

To many people fall short of their goals because they mistakenly believe that losing is just another comfortable place to sit.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

Who am I, when all I’ve ever believed myself to be, is fading before my very eyes?Am I still me, or just a shadow of what I used to be?Was I just an illusion that lived only in my head?Did I paint myself as something more than I really am?And with all these changes in my life… What will be left of the woman who dreamed her dreams?When all the colors that she wrapped herself with… are slowly being stripped away…Copyright © Eeva Lancaster

~ Eeva Lancaster

Maybe that was one of the problems with these men who lived forever, they'd built up an immunity or resistance to affection. Perhaps because when everyone they knew and loved continued to die, they realized the value of distance, of not losing one's self completely to love.

~ Caroline Hanson

I lose part of myself that day and I don't want to lose even more.

~ Miranda Kenneally

Self-respect is the very cement of character, without which character will not form nor stand; a personal ideal is the only possible foundation for self-respect, without which self-respect degenerates into vanity or conceit, or is lost entirely, its place being taken by worthlessness and the consciousness of worthlessness; and that is the end of all character. It is often said that if we do not respect ourselves no one else will respect us; this is rather a dangerous way to put it; let us rather say that if we are not worthy of our own respect we cannot claim the respect of others. True self-respect is a matter of being and never of mere seeming. As Paulsen says, It is vanity that desires first of all to be seen and admired, and then, if possible, really to be something; whereas proper self esteem desires first of all to be something, and' then, if possible, to have its worth recognized.

~ Edward O. Sisson

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

So when my cards are side of... I'm losing I need to suicide??

~ Deyth Banger

Today's world is flooded with participation trophies. In an attempt to promote equality we have robbed our youth of the most growth-inducing aspect of competition, failing. If you want to be resurrected, you have to first be crucified. Everybody wants to be reborn, but no one is willing to die. Losing, in the context of whatever arena it may be, is a microcosmic death. When we learn from our failures and grow because of them, we are reborn.

~ Chris Matakas

Remember, we are all part of a great story that is really about God, not us. He is the number one character (read: winner), and we are all secondary (read: losers).

~ Daniel Hochhalter

A fear of losing, of failure is a fear of success.

~ T Jay Taylor

The moment you believe you will fail, you have already lost the battle.

~ Bianca Frazier

Time does not heal, but it can liberate. A race run well can never be lost.

~ Dan Groat

Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?

~ Terry Pratchett

What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible.

~ Anthony Liccione

Those are the bad guys, right?”“Depends on who wins, I guess.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

Broken doesn't mean we're valued any less, it just means we've loved someone so much and so fiercely that losing them feels like we've lost part of ourselves.

~ B.n. Toler