That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning. - Richard Bach
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. - Elizabeth Bishop
The fear of losing is the flip side of the need to win. Because evolution doesn't favour losers, the fear of losing is so programmed into our DNA that we do all sorts of things, both rational and irrational, to avoid losing. We don't let people cut into line, we compete in meaningless games and sports as if our lives were at stake, and we will never buy from or agree with someone who makes us feel as if he's about to win and we're about to lose. - Gene Bedell
The loss which is unknown is no loss at all. - Publilius Syrus
The victor shall soon be the vanquished, if he relax his exertion; and ... the vanquished this year, may be the victor in the next, in spite of all competition. - Abraham Lincoln
The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking. - James Patterson
There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset
'Tis better to have loved and loss than never to have loved at all. - Alfred Tennyson
We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss. - Cassandra Clare
We gain and lose by the same means. - Roman Proverb
We lost not only through death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on. And our losses include not only our separations and departures from those we love, but our conscious and unconscious losses of romantic dreams, impossible expectations, illusions of freedom and power, illusions of safety – and the loss of our own younger self, the self that thought it would always be unwrinkled and invulnerable and immortal. - Judith Viorst
We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one. - Dean Koontz
We never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. - Gail Cladwell
What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. - Suzanne Collins
What makes defeat so painful is just the awareness that the other has won. It hurts to lose because it feels so good to win. - David Roochnik
Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here's what really happens: The spaces between the times you miss them grow longer. Then, when you do remember to miss them again, it's still with a stabbing pain to the heart. And you have guilt. Guilt because it's been too long since you missed them last. - Kristin O’Donnell
Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it. - Dianne Feinstein
Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. - William Shakespeare
You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity. - Bill Clinton
You know what makes a good loser? Practice. - Ernest Hemingway
You’re never a loser until you quit trying. - Mike Ditka
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