When you are gambling, though you probably do not know it, your mind is on the tide, the ebb and flow of the Universe, and there is no way to fight it. Going with the flow is the only option, so there is no point in struggling against it, but, it will tell you how...

Do not be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how the war ends.

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

I have no sense of humor about losing

Winning or losing achieves the same result–change.

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

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

Deal with your wins and losses alike. With tequila, lemon and a pinch of salt.

No matter how many losing seasons you might have had in the past with your marriage, the good thing is that all teams get a fresh start once September begins

I did not believe in stalemates. I believed in resolutions, one way or another, and if I found myself on the losing end, so be it. Losing meant quiet, and forgetting quickly, and giving up nothing of any real worth to me. I did not debate restaurant bills, politics, wrongly delivered mail, divorces. These things...

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

Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you’re paying so much attention to the new thing.

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.

I never thought of losing, but now that it’ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

It is not important how many competitions you have attended, it only matters how many you have won.

Winning is a choice, but losing is an option.

The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear – from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence – that America is losing its allure in much of the world.

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

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).

If losing is mostly all you know, then it’s obvious you haven’t been thinking, acting, working, persisting, persevering, and walking like winners do.

To lose is to win.

I’ve wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn’t change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I still hate losing–I’m just more gracious about it. I’m also aware that setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn’t like losing at all.

The danger is we’re losing sight of what women really want to wear.

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

Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.

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

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

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

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

At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful.

True lovers spend half of their life dreaming to get their beloved and half with nightmares losing them.

That thing of briefly losing sight of a child happened to me when the kids were younger, and you can’t see them in the supermarket or wherever. It’s a terrible, terrible moment… the most unimaginable horror.

We’re losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet’s health and our own.

Sometimes you win by losing.

The disappointment of losing is huge.

I didn’t lose and let everybody else beat me so much as I made the race last. Last place means I had the most time to enjoy the experience.

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...

I’m winning over fans every day. They’re not my fans, but at least they’re losing and I’m winning.

A tie is a win for more than one person. But a tie is also a loss equally shared by two or more people.

An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins.

Faithfulness imparts God’s reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.

Never a horse that can’t be rode and never a rider that can’t be throwed. (I’ll pass this off as my own, but I really stole it from my father, a cowboy and rodeo rider in his younger years.)

Losing your job is terrifying, but being prepared makes it so much easier.

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

Depends on who wins, I guess.

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

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we’ve only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

How can losing love make you want to destroy people?

To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair. To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back.