Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

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Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

Dianne Feinstein

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I've wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn't change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I still hate losing--I'm just more gracious about it. I'm also aware that setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.

Dara Torres

Tags: goals experience perspective identity ambition dreams winning maturity achievement losing



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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Losing one glove is certainly painful,
but nothing compared to the pain,
of losing one, throwing away the other,
and finding the first one again.

Piet Hein

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There is nothing in this life that can destroy you but yourself. Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can't just fall apart and die. You have to fight back. If you don't, you're the one who loses in the end. But if you do keep going and fight back, you win.

Alexandra Monir

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Rather than the strength it takes to not lose, it's the strength to stand back up after a loss that is sometimes more valuable.

Kyo Shirodaira

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As they embrace, she kisses him full on the mouth. And suddenly sticks her tongue right in. She has done this before, often. It’s one of those drunken long shots which just might, at least theoretically, once in ten thousand tries, throw a relationship right out of its orbit and send it whizzing off on another. Do women ever stop trying? No. But, because they never stop, they learn to be good losers.

Christopher Isherwood

Tags: friendship women relationships losing



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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Barbara De Angelis

Tags: love losing holding-back playing-it-safe



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If you lose your temper, you lose!

Richard Diaz

Tags: serenity winning losing temper emotional-control



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