These losing quotes will inspire you. Losing, resulting in or likely to result in defeat or suffering, resulting in, or relating to defeating in a game or contest.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging losing quotes, losing sayings, and losing proverbs.
Best Losing Quotes
- “You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.” ~ Arthur Ashe
- “Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.” ~ Donald Trump
- “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” ~ Confucius
- “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.” ~ Muhammad Ali
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“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
- “When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.” ~ Billy Graham
- “You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” ~ Robin Williams
- “I have a basic philosophy that I’ve tried to follow during my coaching career. Whether you’re winning or losing, it’s important to always be yourself. You can’t change because of the circumstances around you.” ~ Cotton Fitzsimmons
- “The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you’re losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it’ll wake them up.” ~ Leo Kottke
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“Nate Robinson has a lot of jumping ability, but I don’t see Josh losing.” ~ Dominique Wilkins
- “Southerners can never resist a losing cause.” ~ Margaret Mitchell
- “Bambi has a profound effect on children because it’s about losing your mother.” ~ Christine Baranski
- “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.” ~ Luther Vandross
- “You talk about the values that you have whether they’re in favor or not in favor. That’s how you lead. The reality is, we’re losing more and more elections.” ~ Artur Davis
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“Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.” ~ Dianne Feinstein
- “Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don’t want to lose. Without time for loss, we don’t have time for soul.” ~ James Hillman
- “My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can’t forget losing. I never will” ~ Mark Spitz
- “It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.” ~ Matt Drudge
- “While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.” ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
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“If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.” ~ Joseph Campbell
- “Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we’re losing our individuality.” ~ Boy George
- “It’s actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn’t losing very much money, it wasn’t making very much money, but it was growing.” ~ John Doerr
- “The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.” ~ Marla Maples
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“It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.” ~ Vince Gill
- “I’m in competition with myself and I’m losing.” ~ Roger Waters
- “I really miss Gunsmoke. It was like losing my whole family.” ~ Ken Curtis
- “I don’t think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing – even in part – our capacity to contribute to other peoples.” ~ A. B. Yehoshua
- “Some of the best lessons come from a bad day and there’s a few we can learn from today.” ~ Greg Chappell
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“People always are encouraging about a terrible loss, so that sometimes the loser would like to strangle them.” ~ Garrison Keillor
- “It’s hard to get recognition when your team is losing.” ~ Gilbert Arenas
- “Most private traders on a losing streak keep trying to trade their way out of a hole. A loser thinks a successful trade is just around the corner, and that his luck is about to turn. He keeps putting on more trades and increases his size, all the while digging himself a deeper hole in the ice. The sensible thing to do would be to reduce your trading size and then stop and review your system.” ~ Alexander Elder
- “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.” ~ Jean Kerr
- “I don’t like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.” ~ Early Wynn
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“There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.” ~ Bernhard Langer
- “The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.” ~ Sergio Aragones , Losing quotes life
- “When I play poker, I don’t like losing the pot.” ~ Drew Carey
- “I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.” ~ Bill Tilden
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“I don’t gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn’t give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.” ~ Alex Trebek
- “No one wants to quit when he’s losing and no one wants to quit when he’s winning.” ~ Richard Petty
- “Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I’ll show you a permanent loser.” ~ O. J. Simpson
- “I’m not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.” ~ Eddie Bernice Johnson
- “I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.” ~ Ike Turner
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“If you’re afraid of losing, then you daren’t win.” ~ Bjorn Borg
- “If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.” ~ Ron Dellums
- “I never think about losing.” ~ Lou Ferrigno
- “I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.” ~ Boris Becker , Losing quotes love
- “I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.” ~ Imran Khan
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“If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?” ~ Vince Lombardi
- “If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.” ~ Charles Bukowski
- “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” ~ Michael Jordan
- “Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.” ~ Helene Cixous
- “I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually, they make the difference between winning and losing.” ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar , Winning and losing quotes
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“Losing feels worse than winning feels good.” ~ Vin Scully
- “Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.” ~ Ludwig Borne
- “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.” ~ Julie Delpy
- “The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.” ~ Aldous Huxley
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“I get it now; I didn’t get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible… and enjoying everything in between.” ~ Mia Farrow
- “Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.” ~ Henry Miller
- “When I feel like I’m doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you’re not so much losing yourself but you’re sort of in the zone.” ~ Chris Cooper
- “Whoever said, ‘It’s not whether you win or lose that counts,’ probably lost.” ~ Martina Navratilova
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“I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don’t blame them.” ~ Adnan Pachachi
- “It’s not about winning or losing, but love and respect.” ~ Max Lucado
- “When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.” ~ Al McGuire
