Quotes about Lose

You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

When you lose, dont lose the lesson.

There are victories of the soul and spirit.  Sometimes, even if you lose,  you win.

If I weren't afraid of losing control, I would let go.

It doesn't matter if you win or lose, or even how you play the game: it only matters how good you look! *wink*

    And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves:  when you lose life, you grow wise.  But that is better than maiming life to hold it.

The zero-sum game: that's the way it is if you're a competitive person and you see capitalism in that way. Zero-sum game implies winners and losers which I don't agree with. Somebody has to win and somebody has to lose, it all comes back to zero (minus eight, plus eight). But I don't agree with that because all boats can rise on a rising sea. Good films can help other films to be open. There's a different psychology at work. If you're overly competitive, you'll be exclusionary and say it's a zero-sum game (I must get eight and he must lose eight). Gekko simplifies it down to a painting. He says he bought this painting or this building for X and he sold it for Y and he made that profit and he assumes that somebody else got beat, but that's not necessarily true. You don't always lose.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.