Losing Quotes - Page 20

To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself.

This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.

It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.

What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree's heartwood.

Reaching your potential is a disciplined process. Like losing weight or getting in shape - there is no final destination and it requires you to dust off atrophied muscles. You have to work at it. If you do, I think you will dramatically improve your leadership.

We're in danger of losing an even more foundational belief of Christianity: that salvation is only possible through faith in Jesus Christ.

The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.

Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.

Land of lost gods and godlike men.

Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.

If you lose yourself, then no one's going to respect or pay attention to anything you have.

That was the worst part about losing someone-finding a place to store all the thoughts and feelings you'd otherwise share with them.

Reckon it's best if you don't have anyone you care about; then it can't hurt you. Don't have to be afraid of losing someone if you no one to lose.

Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself? I reach for Stargirl and she's gone. I'm not me anymore.

As an individual, as a household, you can't spend more money than you're bringing in. You can do it for a little while, but you end up going broke and you end up losing everything you have. That is the path that we're on as a country, and it scares me to death.

I learned to win by learning to lose- that means not being afraid of losing.

I've never believed in seeking perfection at the risk of losing everything.

You start losing a client the moment you get it.

Most bands, when they sign with a major, are from an indie. They usually start off with a big dilemma. They think they're selling a part of their souls or they're losing control over an aspect of their lives or something.

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.

Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.

The thing I like about acting is being able to lose yourself completely in someone else.

In the theater, which is a sort of jungle, one does have to be a little bit careful. One mustn't be so rigid or egotistical to think that every comma is sacrosanct. But at the same time there is the danger of losing control and finding that somebody else has opened a play and not you.

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.