Lost Quotes

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.

Most ball games are lost, not won.

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.

Remember that lost time does not return.

The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.

Look, I've lost before. And there's always a tomorrow.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

When we lost, I couldn't sleep at night. When we win, I can't sleep at night. But, when you win, you wake up feeling better.

The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

Out of the ashes of Sara Whitehead rose Melissa Stern. Out of the ashes of Mary Beth Whitehead, there were pieces lost.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?'

The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.

We've lost 3,000 jobs in Beaufort County. We've lost half of our manufacturing workforce.

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.

I've been shooting the ball and running a little bit. It's just going out here now and forgetting that I've been out and try to get back in and make sure I know what's going on out there on the floor and that we're just not lost as a team.

I think I'm past the age of getting lost.

Not a moment had been lost by General Hooker in the pursuit of Lee.

I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.