Quotes about Losing
FAITH receives more than it asks. DOUBT loses more than it disbelieved.
— Beth Moore
If I win, I win, and if I lose, I win because my responsibility is to obey God and to leave the consequences up to him.
— Charles Stanley
Leadership is responsible. Losing is unacceptable. Passion is unquenchable. Creativity is essential. Quitting is unthinkable. Commitment is unquestionable. Victory is inevitable.
— John Maxwell
The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.
— Edmund Burke
God wants us to flourish, and paradoxically we flourish best by obeying rather than rebelling, by giving more than receiving, by serving rather than being served. Six times in the Gospels Jesus iterated the deeper truth that we succeed not by acquiring more and more but by "losing" life through service to God and others.
— Philip Yancey
All of life is a complex game of strategy; moves, and countermoves, taking and losing pieces, setting up for the final
— Steven James
Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.
— Joseph Addison
The person who demands a sign and at the same time has already determined that anything that cannot be explained scientifically is meaningless is not merely stacking the deck; he is losing at his own game.
— Ravi Zacharias
Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Raise children who are grateful in general, and grateful to be an American in particular, or grateful to be the citizen of any decent country, who don't complain much, who learn to handle losing, and who are guided by values, not feelings. In other words, teach them how to be happy adults.
— Dennis Prager
Do you know what hope and fear have in common?... They both hold great power. But that power is dependent on both fear and hope together. Think about it. Without the fear of something terrible, you cannot have the hope that it won't happen, you see? Without having hope for something wonderful, you can't have any fear of losing it. They work together, the two most powerful forces we possess.
— Ted Dekker
As afraid as she was of loving and losing, she was even more afraid of losing the chance to love him.
— Denise Hunter