Quotes tagged ‘Losing’

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“Hope might leave me crushed in the end, but losing all hope somehow seemed even worse.”

— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com

“You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.”

— Marion Wright Edelman, pinterest.com

“Have you ever watched the person you love slowly lose interest in you? It starts off little, you can’t quite put your finger on it, but something is different, something has changed. Everything feels slightly off, off like a monday. You can almost hear it in their voice, you can see it in their eyes…”

— NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS, makingyourdayalittlebitsweeter.tumblr.com

“It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

“Somebody may beat me, but they're going to have to bleed to do it.”

— Steve Prefontaine, reddit.com

“Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.”

— Ross Perot, keepinspiring.me

“The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose.”

— Ernie Banks, keepinspiring.me

“I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.”

— Wayne Rooney, successstory.com

“Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.”

— Billie Jean King, amazon.com

“I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you.”

— J. D. Salinger, genius.com

“You’ve wandered off too far, you’ve forgotten who you are; you’ve let down the ones you love, you’ve given up too much.”

— Lang Leav, thoughtcatalog.com

“Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.”

— Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, amazon.com

“I lose all the time.I lose against others. I lose against myself. I lose against time. I lose against life.I just lose.But that does not make me a loser.Like Rachna Nayak’s grandmother said 'be such a great loser that you lose all the pain that you have of losing.' I believe that this means that you…”

— Lalaina Rackson, medium.com

“He’s a beautiful person. He always tells me: ‘We’ve got to find a way to win by losing.’ In the eyes of society, we’ve lost already. Everyone in here is a loser. We can either be angry about it, or we can keep trying to grow.”

— Anonymous, humansofnewyork.com

“I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.”

— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com