Loses Quotes

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.

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

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?

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.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

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 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.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

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.

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.

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.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.

If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power.

Every dog has his day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weak-end.

Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets about an imminent catastrophe. The more public support his stimulus bill loses, the more Obama embraces fear-mongering.

Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.