Loss Quotes

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

~ Malcolm X

Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.

~ Snoop Dogg

My success has been something I've worked a long time at and it's been a gradual process. I compare it to the idea of someone losing a lot of weight over a period of a few years. You don't really notice the weight loss overall but if you compare photos from then and now there's a big difference.

~ Ray William Johnson

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

~ Robert Southey

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

~ Morgan Freeman

There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who remember such cycles are very important to us now.

~ Carmen Agra Deedy

On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

~ Tom Lantos

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

~ Maya Angelou

Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!

~ Deborah Sampson

One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.

~ Laurence D. Fink

When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.

~ Gary Zukav

What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward.

~ Michele Bachmann

I freak out if I go a little too long without being in the gym. For a long time it was all about getting the weight off because I was 240 pounds at my heaviest, and now I'm around 175, so the majority of that weight loss was due to diet and exercise.

~ Nick Carter

When followed correctly, the Dukan Diet is both a safe and effective method of weight loss.

~ Pierre Dukan

It's very difficult to explain to a normal working citizen the implications of what $18 trillion in debt means and what it means when the Federal Reserve buys the U.S. Treasury bonds to finance our loss every month.

~ Steve Wynn

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

~ Nana Mouskouri

Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive in the long run to prevent a loss of imagination by providing adequate nutrition, housing, medical care, and schooling than it is to try to restore that loss.

~ Margaret Geller

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

~ James Madison

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

~ Paul Valéry

Cutting back on calories is not the answer to successful weight loss and successful health... you have to increase the quality of what you eat, not just reduce the quantity.

~ Joel Fuhrman

The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. My whole career, I have never done anything where competition was involved with weight loss.

~ Richard Simmons

Everything we've been taught about health, weight loss and aging is wrong.

~ Jorge Cruise

People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.

~ Daniel Kahneman

I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

~ Marlo Thomas

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

~ Anne Grant

As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power's always zero sum - my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.

~ Joseph Nye

There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.

~ Jill Scott

I trust online banking. You know why? Because if somebody hacks into my account and defrauds my credit card company, or my online bank account, guess who takes the loss? The bank, not me.

~ Kevin Mitnick

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

~ Paul Gauguin

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

~ James Madison

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

~ James M. Barrie

If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.

~ Jay Griffiths

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

~ Nathaniel Branden

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

~ Maya Angelou

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

~ Russell Baker

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

~ Mark Van Doren

We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.

~ Robert Kennedy

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.

~ Luke Ford

And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that.

~ Clare Short

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

~ May Sarton