Loss Quotes

To win you have to risk loss.

No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.

I have to constantly remind myself that I am communicating with a person with hearing loss.

Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.

If we don't get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy.

When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.

A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!

The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.

One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.

My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.