Loss Quotes

Shouda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.

Pat Riley

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

Pat Riley

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

Pat Riley

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.

Jodi Picoult

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.

Ernest Hemingway

All the world loves a good loser.

Kin Hubbard

It's the good loser who finally loses out.

Kin Hubbard

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

Steffi Graf

How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing was a constant bereavement.

J.K. Rowling