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Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost.
Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost.
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief -But the pain of griefIs only a read more
The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief -But the pain of griefIs only a shadowWhen compared with the painOf never risking love.
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true read more
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand read more
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed read more
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.
