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Losing Quotes - Page 14

The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

"Romancing With Stone". Interview with Jessica Boden, www.newyou.com. March 14, 2014.

You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.

Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.39, Macmillan

Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.394

Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.

May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1993”, p.424, Open Road Media

Changing directions in life is not tragic. Losing passion in life is.

Max Lucado (2013). “Second Chances: More Stories of Grace”, p.64, Thomas Nelson