Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other, everything to gain
Diane de Pointiers
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The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief -But the pain of griefIs only a shadowWhen compared with the painOf never risking love.
Hilary Stanton Zunin
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That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
Richard Bach
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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways
Stephen Vincent Benet
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Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses
Caleb Carr
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You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
Richard M. Nixon
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Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.
Troy Aikman
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The 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
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I don't think you can be a success at anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.
Edward M. Kennedy
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If you are losing a tug of war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope.
Max Gunther
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