Quotes About Losing

 ‘Tis better to have fought and lost, than to never to have fought at all.

— Arthur Clough

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

— Robert South

Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great.  Show me a gracious loser and I’ll show you a perennial loser.

— O. J. Simpson

Losing is the great American sin.

— John Tunis

Losers spend time complaining why they lost.  Loser spend their lives thinking about what they’re going to do.  They rarely enjoy doing what they’re doing.

— Eric Berne

An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.

— Millard Fillmore

Man is not made for defeat.

— Heraclitus

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Quotes About Hunger

Hungry men have no respect for law, authority, or human life.

— Marcus Garvey

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

— Oscar Wilde

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

— David Lloyd George

A hungry man is not a free man.

— Adlai Stevenson

A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

— Seneca the Younger

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

— Woodrow Wilson

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Quotes About Faults

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.

— William Hazlitt

Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.

— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

— Confucius

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

— Thomas Carlyle

People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

— Anatole France

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Quotes About Failure

Success is a public affair.  Failure is a private funeral.

-- Rosalind Russell

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

 --Robert F. Kennedy

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which, is--try

to please everybody.

--Herbert Bayard Swope

Not failure, but low aim, is crime

--James Russell Lowell

I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating.

--Sophocles

The greatest failure is the failure to try.

--William A. Ward

It is not a disgrace to fail.  Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

--Charles F. Kettering

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

--Rosalind Russell

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.

--Jules Renard

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.

--Ellen Glasgow

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

--Truman Capote

There is much to be said for failure.  It is much more interesting than success.

--Max Beerbohm  

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

--Confucius

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.  Then quit.  There's no use being a damn fool about it.

--W. C. Fields

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.  We get very little

wisdom from success, you know.

--William Saroyan

Failure has gone to his head.

--Wilson Mizner (attrib.), on a bankrupt businessman who remained incorrigibly optimistic

An important task of a manager is to reduce his people's excuses for failure.

--Robert Townsend

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

--Lewis E. Lawes

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

--Newt Heilscher

I was fired from my first three jobs, which in a funny way gave me the courage to go into business for myself.

--Alfred C. Fuller

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Quotes About Enemies

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

— Sam Snead

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

— Booker T. Washington

All our foes are mortal.

— Paul Valéry

The space in a needle’s eye is sufficient for two friends, but the whole world is scarcely big enough to hold two enemies.

— Ibn Gabirol

The opposition is indispensable.  A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

— Walter Lippmann

Man’s chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces pent up within him.

— Ernest Jones

The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles’s own plumes.  We often give our enemies the means of our destruction.

— Aesop

He that is not with me is against me.

— Matthew 12:30

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.

— Maria Callas

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

— Baltasar Gracian

Even a paranoid has some real enemies.

— Henry A. Kissinger

I bring out the worst in my enemies and that’s how I get them to defeat themselves.

— Roy Cohn

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

— Oscar Wilde

As the sutra says, a parasite in the lion’s bowels will devour the lion. A man of great fortune cannot be ruined by his enemies, but only by those close to him.

— Nichiren Daishonin

One may smile, and smile, and smile, and be a villain.

— William Shakespeare

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

— Benjamin Franklin

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.

— John Hobbes

We have met the enemy, and he is us.

— Walt Kelley

Who can refute a sneer?

— William Paley

I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

— Antisthenes

Do de other feller, befo’ he do you.

— James David Corrothers

I like to have a real enemy to fight.  It gives me something I can get my teeth into.

— Baroness Phillips

Enemies to me are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.

— Elsa Maxwell

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Quotes About Chance

Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the results of accidents.

— Bertrand Russell

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

— George Savile

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

— Henry Glasgow

God does not play dice with the universe.

— Albert Einstein

We must believe in luck.  For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?

— Jean Cocteau

Today even our clocks are not made of clockwork — so why should our world be?  With the advent of quantum mechanics, the clockwork world has become a cosmic lottery.  Fundamental events, such as the decay of a radioactive atom, are held to be determined by chance, not law.

— Ian Stewart

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Quotes About Chance

Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the results of accidents.

— Bertrand Russell

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

— George Savile

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

— Henry Glasgow

God does not play dice with the universe.

— Albert Einstein

We must believe in luck.  For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?

— Jean Cocteau

Today even our clocks are not made of clockwork — so why should our world be?  With the advent of quantum mechanics, the clockwork world has become a cosmic lottery.  Fundamental events, such as the decay of a radioactive atom, are held to be determined by chance, not law.

— Ian Stewart

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