Win Lose Quotes

Be brave if you lose and meek if you win. ~ Harvey Penick

I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day. ~ Benjamin Netanyahu

Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw. ~ Michel Patini

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure. ~ Virat Kohli

Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it. ~ Lindsay Davenport

I know it's not a one man team win or lose. ~ Brett Favre

When you don't win games, yeah, you lose confidence. That's normal. ~ Didier Drogba

It's hard to win when you always lose. ~ Tom Waits

I've always tried to tell myself that the work itself is the thing, that win, lose, or draw, the work is really what counts. ~ Julius Erving

I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win. ~ Eric Cantona

It is not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose. ~ David Merrick

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win. ~ Walter Reuther

My district goes a long ways across the southern part of Ohio, so just the opportunity to get to know so many people is a highlight itself, win or lose. ~ Brad Wenstrup

You can always argue you're never good enough until you win the Super Bowl. And even then, you're going to lose players, and you're not good enough then, either. ~ Jeffrey Lurie

For anyone who thinks "profit" is evil, I have a challenge for you: try NOT to get any profit in the next week. Profit simply means increasing how much valuable stuff you have, and if you don't profit, you die. Literally. For example, don't buy any food for a week, because when you buy food (or anything), it's because you value the food MORE than you value the money you trade for it. If you didn't, you wouldn't make the trade. So you PROFIT (and so does the seller) every time you buy something. And every time you sell something, or work for money, etc. So before condemning "profit" (or "greed" or "selfishness," for that matter), see if you can survive without it. Then stop repeating vague collectivist BS, and learn to distinguish between "win/win" events (voluntary exchange) where BOTH sides profit, and "win/lose" events, where one side benefits by harming the other side. By the way, "government" is ALWAYS the latter. ~ - Larken Rose

You remember the finals you lose as much as the ones you win. ~ Frank Lampard

If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win. ~ Donald Rumsfeld

We can stay in Afghanistan and stabilize the situation, or we can get out and win, or we can get out and lose. ~ Dinesh D'Souza

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you never concede a goal, you're going to win more games than you lose. ~ Bobby Moore

Most people, if philosophy touches them, they shatter, they atomize, they turn to dust. It is win/lose between philosophy and delusion, and most people are almost entirely composed of delusion. They're only allowed as much reality as serves the masters. But they're not allowed any reality which disturbs their masters ... ~ Stefan Molyneux

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction. ~ Lester B. Pearson

I've never been part of a tie. You didn't lose, but you didn't win. ~ Andy Dalton

Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it's not. The heart is intuitive; it's holistic, it's contextual, it's relational. It doesn't have a win-lose orientation. It taps into the cosmic computer - the field of pure potentiality, pure knowledge, and infinite organizing power - and takes everything into account. At times it may not even seem rational, but the heart has a computing ability that is far more accurate and far more precise than anything within the limits of rational thought. ~ Deepak Chopra

One of the common traits of outstanding performers-coaches, athletes, managers, sales representatives, executives, and others who face a daily up/down, win/lose accounting system-is that a rejection, that is, defeat, is quickly forgotten, replaced eagerly by pursuit of a new order, client, or opponent. ~ Bill Walsh

You've got to lose to know how to win. ~ Steven Tyler

People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to ... rather than detracts from ... our lives. ~ Stephen Covey

Make no mistake: we will win, and groups like ISIL will lose. ~ Francois Hollande

Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes. ~ Brian Clough

I like to win. If I lose, I'm not very happy. ~ Hermann Maier

When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust. ~ Stephen Covey

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves. ~ Learned Hand

You win a few, you lose a few. ~ Thomas Peterffy

Money is being wasted on adverts that go right over a consumer's head. They may win awards at Cannes, but they lose at the cash register. ~ Jerry Della Femina

Win or lose, do it fairly. ~ Knute Rockne

It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder to lose one. ~ Chuck Tanner

The true test of character is to live win-win even when promoted to positions where win-lose is possible. ~ Orrin Woodward

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat. ~ Jesse Ventura

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it. ~ Rafael Nadal

In the NBA, you win, and you think you're going to win tomorrow. But as soon as you lose, you don't think you're ever going to win again. ~ George Karl

First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger. ~ Don DeLillo

How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing ... If, however, there is a God and a heaven and a hell. then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends have lost everything ... ~ Blaise Pascal

A lot of people lose a sense of reality when they achieve success. That's a terrible danger because you have to remember who you were and who you are basically and that you're still a person and all that out there is a kin of magic - what people see out there is magic, it's media magic. It's not very real and it's very glamorous, but you have to keep a sense of you through it all. ~ Olivia Newton-John

A lord who does not distribute wealth is a lord who will lose the allegiance of his men, ~ Bernard Cornwell

Courtship is an activity whereby one losses oneself ... whilst trying to win someone's love. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more. ~ Louis L'Amour

You have to keep your goal in mind and never lose sight of it. I envisioned myself winning the heavyweight title for ten years before I actually captured it. If you're not driven to do your best, you'll never reach the level of excellence in your life. ~ George Foreman

Whenever I put myself out there on the line, skating against other people, I simply want to win. ~ Shani Davis

Those who, in the biblical phrase, would save their lives - that is, those who want to get along, who don't want commitments, who don't want to get into problems, who want to stay outside of a situation that demands the involvement of all of us - they will lose their lives. What a terrible thing to have lived quite comfortably, with no suffering, not getting involved in problems, quite tranquil, quite settled, with good connections politically, economically, socially - lacking nothing, having everything. To what good? They will lose their lives. ~ Oscar A. Romero

You cannot understand how much patience I need in order not to lose my patience, so that I can withstand all this misfortune all by myself.

Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Galatea Kazantzaki wr. c. June 1922 ~ Nikos Kazantzakis

I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an outdoor person. I would win the summer reading contest at the library. ~ Julianne Moore

As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better. ~ Stanislas Wawrinka

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win is for enough good women to do nothing. ~ Kate Atkinson

The first thing apparent was that this world and its people were often quite wrong. To conclude that others were wrong was as far as most of us ever got. The usual outcome was that people continued to wrong us and we stayed sore. Sometimes it was remorse and then we were sore at ourselves. But the more we fought and tried to have our own way, the worse matters got. As in war, the victor only seemed to win. Our moments of triumph were short-lived. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous

I would have found something else to lose myself in. If you were pushed off a cliff, you'd grab hold of anything resembling safety. ~ Jean Kyoung Frazier

If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore. ~ David Levithan

I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet. ~ Marcia Cross

A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it. ~ Florence Nightingale

If there was one thing she was learning from all this, it was how easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever. ~ Cassandra Clare

Be like a sponge and desire the Lord with everything that's within you. Every case that does that, they are on the floor receiving. People pray for you, that's your time to receive. Pray on the way out, you can pray later. Don't take control, you can take control later. The whole deal is, you lose control, He takes control. He gets you out of your comfort zone, makes you feel vulnerable, right? You can analyze it later can't you? ~ John Arnott

If the people of America do not rise up, take ownership of our country, we're going to lose it forever. ~ Cindy Sheehan

God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep. ~ J.I. Packer

To master fear is the most important battle to win. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

The power of healing comes through the wound. If the physician is healed, he will lose his power to heal others. ~ Robert Moss

If our democracy worked as it should, we would elect wise women and men who made laws for the good of the people and enforced those laws.
That, though, is not the way things work. Greedy, power–mad billionaires spend money so that politicians such as George W. Bush can buy elections. Corrupt corporations such as Enron defraud old ladies and commit crimes. And they get away with it. They get away with it because most of us are so afraid of losing the security of our nice, normal lives that we are not willing to risk anything about those lives. We are either afraid to fight or we don't know how. Or we believe that bad things won't happen to us.
And so, in the end, too many people lose their lives anyway. In Nazi Germany, millions of men who acquiesced to Hitler's murderous rise to power wound up marching into Russia's icy wasteland - into the Soviet Army's machine guns and cannon - to themselves be murdered. In America after 9–11, trusting teenagers who had joined the National Guard found themselves sent to Iraq on extended and additional tours. Our enemy killed many of them because we, citizens of the richest country in the world, did not provide them with body armor.
Grieving mothers protested the wasting of their sons' lives. Nadia McCaffrey defied Bush's shameful ban on the filming of U.S. soldiers' coffins returning home from Iraq. She knew, as we all did, that this tyrannical dictum of Bush dishonored our soldiers' sacrifice. And so she invited the press to ~ David Zindell

Aging only happens to people who lose their lust for getting better and disconnect from their natural base of curiosity. ~ Robin Sharma

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon! ~ John F. Kennedy

If you lose a parent, no matter at what age, every five or 10 years you have a different way of missing them and a different way of getting on with your life. ~ Rory Kinnear

If you are constrained to playing by the rules while your opponent is not, then you are certain to lose. ~ Gary T. Smith

The one who asks questions does not lose his way. ~ Polly Shulman

The opportunity to truly Live doesn't wait. Either We USE it or We LOSE it.-RVM ~ R.v.m.

To find one self, as in actualize one's full potential; we must lose the illusion of self and become one with our true nature and connectedness to all things. ~ Glenn A. Maltais

Parish, get back into position!' Max warned. 'Do not go in there. I repeat, do not go in there.' 'We lose him now, we lose him for good,' Caitlin declared. 'And I am not going to let that happen.' 'You have insufficient backup. I repeat: insufficient backup. ~ Lindsay J. Pryor

If Al Gore loses his brazen attempt to win on the dimples, one reason will be that he finally convinced enough Republicans to fight like Democrats. ~ Paul Gigot

I have read that the Builders made toys that could play chess. Toys, as small as the silver bishop in my hand, that could defeat any player, taking no time to select moves that undid even the best minds amongst their makers. The bishop made a satisfying click when tapped to the board. I beat out a little rhythm, wondering if any point remained in playing a game that toys could own. If we couldn't find a better game then perhaps the mechanical minds the Builders left behind would always win. ~ Mark Lawrence

I learned a long time ago that the honest and just don't always win. Good doesn't always conquer. Sometimes the bad guys win. Sometimes they win for a very long time, because the masses are afraid to challenge them. ~ Anthony DiFiore

Life is too damn short to not tell someone how you feel. Don't let someone because you're afraid or you'll lose them forever. ~ Benjamin Bayani

They maintain he wrote The Art of War. Personally, I believe it was a woman. On the surface, The Art of War is a manual about tactics on the battlefield, but at its deepest level it describes how to win conflicts. Or to be more precise, the art of getting what you want at the lowest possible price. The winner of a war is not necessarily the victor. Many have won the crown, but lost so much of their army that they can only rule on their ostensibly defeated enemies' terms. With regard to power, women don't have the vanity men have. They don't need to make power visible, they only want the power to give them the other things they want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge. Peace. They are rational, power-seeking planners, who think beyond the battle, beyond the victory celebrations. And because they have an inborn capacity to see weakness in their victims, they know instinctively when and how to strike. And when to stop. You can't learn that, Spiuni. ~ Jo Nesbo

Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow the reactionary ruling classes and therefore impossible for the people to win political power. ~ Mao Zedong

You know what I figured out?"
I hate this part." Dr. Martin leaned back in his chair. "It means I'm about to lose income or I'm about to learn what a crappy shrink I am." (276) ~ Gail Giles

When there is a fight of reason versus emotion and the mind wonders which one to follow, in most times, emotion wins over reason. But it is reason that should win and emotion shouldn't. ~ Abu Sufyan Ibn Harb

People who can spread ideas regardless of what those ideas are, win. ~ Seth Godin

To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a horse that goes not. To have a man obeys not. To lie in jail and hope not. To be sick and recover not. To lose one's way and know not. To wait at door and enter not, and to have a friend we trust not: are ten such spites as hell hath not. ~ John Florio

If life can remove someone you never wanted to lose, it can replace them with someone you never dreamed of wanting. ~ Char Sharp