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Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.
-Troy Aikman
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No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
-Muhammad Ali
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Knute Rockne liked bad loser. He said good losers lose too often.
-George E. Allen
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
-Marcus Aurelius
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
-Elisabeth Bishop
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The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
-Bill Bradley
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When by the Ruins oft I past
My sorrowing eyes aside did cast
And here and there the places spy
Where oft I sate and long did lie.
Here stood that Trunk, and there that chest,
There lay that store I counted best,
My pleasant things in ashes lie
And them behold no more shall I.
Under the roof no guest shall sit,
Nor at thy Table eat a bit.
No pleasant talk shall 'ere be told
Nor things recounted done of old.
No Candle 'ere shall shine in Thee,
Nor bridegroom's voice ere heard shall bee.
In silence ever shalt thou lie.
-Anne Dudley Bradstreet
Verses upon the Burning of our House, June 18, 1666
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Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible - but new joys wait to fill the void.
-Pam Brown
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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
-Samuel Butler
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Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-Galeazzo Ciano
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I hate to lose more than I love to win.
-Jimmy Connors
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I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose.
-Eric Davis
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You're never a loser until you quit trying.
-Mike Ditka
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A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
-Leo Durocher
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Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? is not this also a return?
-Epictetus
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Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
-Robert Frost
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If a man falls once, all will tread upon him.
-Thomas Fuller
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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
-Baltasar Gracian
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When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.
-Steffi Graf
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The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.
-B. R. Hayden
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We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.
-Hirohito
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No wise person should make known the loss of fortune, any malpractice in their house, his being cheated, or having been disgraced.
-Hitopadesa
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The cheerful loser is the winner.
-Elbert Hubbard
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Books about Loss
