Lose
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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague, nagging sense that there are an overwhelming number of things to be done, all of which are on the brink of being forgotten.
For a bird, especially for the more musically inventive, song is the defining characteristic, the primary way by which it knows itself and is known by others. To lose its species song is to lose not just its identity but some part of its presence in the world.
If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.
Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas — stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.
Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.