Loses Quotes

Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.

The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?

If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.

I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

I'm not one of those actors who gets physically fit for a role and then loses it all again.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.