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- Nov 07, 2020
Lose Quotes
On defeat, restraint, and what slips away.
This set covers losing in several senses: standing by a cause even in defeat, losing enjoyment by over-thinking something, and losing composure under pressure. The tension between winning and losing shows up again in our Game quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.
- Rich
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Ford Motor Co. should stand for something more than cars and trucks. There is a Ford way of doing things that we cannot lose... We need to be continuously polishing that Ford oval.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
- Attack
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- Nov 07, 2020