Best losing & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self.”

Source: Killosophy

“There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.”

Feels Children Littles Self Consciousness Findings Capable Losing Strikes Self Consciousness

Author:Carson McCullers

“We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.”

Mean Self Hate Self Love Losing Contrary Pursue Selfishness Mixtures Really Mean Loving Others Self Hate Losing Ourselves

Author:Paul Valery

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.”

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Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.”

People World Way Mean Self Enough Whole Hands Found Causes Peace Findings Losing Inner Peace Stable Self Centered Finding Inner Peace

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“People have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves. Finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered.”

People Mean Self Found Causes Findings Losing Inner Peace Self Centered Mulling Over Finding Inner Peace

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of ourselves; it's like breathing in and breathing out. And if you can only get to know the world by stepping out, and losing yourself in experience, you can only get to know the self by stepping back, and finding yourself in contemplation. One without the other leads to a kind of madness.”

Ifs Knows World Needs Kind Two Ends Self Motivational Findings Losing Madness Breathing Contemplation Two Things Finding Yourself Balanced Losing Yourself Balanced Life Stepping Back

Author:Pico Iyer

“Self-checkout is negative because more and more retailers are losing the personal touch. People want to do business where people know their name and communicate with them. With a world full of email and more self-service we will begin to start seeking out the basics from retailers who create emotion. There is not emotion out of self-service and most people buy out of emotion.”

People Knows World Want Self Names Emotion Losing Negative Seeking Communicate Email Basics Retailers Checkouts Personal Touch Self Service

Author:Debbie Allen

“Losing ... really does say something about who you are. Among other things it measures are: do you blame others, or do you own the loss? Do you analyze your failure, or just complain about bad luck? If you're willing to examine failure, and to look not just at your outward physical performance, but your internal workings, too, losing can be valuable. How you behave in those moments can perhaps be more self-defining than winning could ever be. Sometimes losing shows you for who you really are.”

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Author:Lance Armstrong

“Сertainly there are people for whom anti-depression medication has allowed them to use difficulty to wake up, and I don't deny that at all, but as usual with us human beings, we've overdone it. We are self-medicating ourselves away from the great awakening moments, and losing our coping skills and losing wake-up calls.”

People Humans Self Moments Use Human Beings Skills Losing Difficulty Wake Up Deny Awakening Usual Coping Medication Wake Up Call Self Medicating

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing the natural thoughts about self in the thought of One higher than himself, to whose guidance he can commit himself and all men.”

Men Self Natural Forget Higher Losing Commit Guidance Advancing Forget Him

Book:Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations

Source: Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations

“A lot of people who are involved in self-discovery lose energy to abusive teachers, to abusive friends and to entities, non-physical beings.”

People Self Energy Loses Teacher Involved Losing Discovery Self Discovery Mysticism Entity Abusive Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“So great becomes the fear of losing what we have that many of us rush back to hide under the temporary shelter of convention rather than follow the path of self-discovery wherever it might lead. Given adequate time and sufficient fear, we may hide so long that we hardly notice we're slowly suffocating.”

May Long Self Might Given Path Losing Discovery Self Discovery Sufficient Temporary Conventions Shelter Adequate Suffocating

Book:On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life

Source: On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life

“I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in relation to human rights but I think that we are losing sight of some of the values of concern for others, and self-respect and respect for others.”

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Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all possible peace of mind, even in the very thick of our sins. He saves us in our disasters, not from them. He emphatically does not promise to meet only the odd winner of the self-improvement lottery. He meets us all in our endless and inescapable losing.”

Source: The Astonished Heart: Reclaiming the Good News from the Lost-and-found of Church History

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

Self Views Losing Self Confidence Educated Temper

Author:Robert Frost

“I think that sometimes the difference between winning and losing, success and failure, is this gray line between will, passion and self-belief that says, 'I'm going to do this'.”

Thinking Self Sometimes Passion Winning Belief Differences Lines Losing Gray Success And Failure Winning And Losing Belief In Self

Author:Howard Schultz

“[Oliver North is a] document-shredding, Constitution-trashing, Commander in Chief-bashing, Congress-thrashing, uniform-shaming, Ayatollah-loving, arms-dealing, criminal-protecting, résumé-enhancing, Noriega-coddling, Social Security-threatening, public school-denigrating, Swiss-banking-law-breaking, letter-faking, self-serving, election-losing, snake-oil salesman who can't tell the difference between the truth and a lie.”

“There is a growing awareness that we're losing our technological competitive edge. I think there's an awareness that we're losing our leadership, and that maybe our self image over the past several decades has been a little bit delusional.”

Thinking Littles Has Beens Self Past Bits Growing Awareness Little Bit Losing Edges Decades Technological Over The Past Delusional

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their force. Spiritual independence is being pressured on all sides by the dictatorship of self-satisfied vulgarity, of the latest fads, and of group interests.”

“In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile - and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: Not necessarily to Win, but mainly to keep from Losing Completely.”

Self Together Winning Nations Losing Sheep Pigs Mobile Something Better Crippled Swine

Book:The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

“We get off track. Capitalism takes us off track. You get off the "real" and get on the "wheel." The "wheel" becomes the winning and losing, the succeeding and failing, the "I will achieve." All that stuff becomes so preoccupying, particularly if you're born with low self-esteem, or no sense of yourself, or even if you're just born in the consumer culture. It's very powerful.”

“I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I'll go there.”

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Author:Barbara Brown Taylor

“The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There's a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It can happen with people, it can happen with nature, and it can happen with my eyes shut anywhere I am.”

People Kind Self Moments Happens Eye Loss Consciousness Losing All Kinds Gorgeous Self Consciousness

Author:Barbara Brown Taylor

“I didn't want to whisper and giggle about [puberty] anymore. I felt incredibly self-conscious. I felt like I was losing myself, and I was losing who I was. And that really scared me.”

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Author:Mara Wilson

“We focus on that really repulsive minority of racists. But then there's a continuum that goes all the way to, you know, what used to be called the white backlash or to, you know, the feelings of some white people that they're losing out and that the jobs and power and sort of the culture is drifting away from them and toward people who don't look like them, who don't - who they don't know very well. And that's not necessarily - I don't equate that with the hardcore ideological hatred of self-identified racists.”

People Knows Way Wells Looks Self Feelings Jobs Used Culture White Focus Losing Hatred Used To Be Minorities Racist Ideological Drifting Hardcore Continuum Backlash Losing Out Drifting Away

Author:George Packer

“By creating a self-policing, self-reporting, sort of self-monitoring culture through law, through statute, and imposing that on the academic world, I think not only are we losing a significant measure of freedom in academic traditions and in our civil society, but we're actually making ourselves less competitive with every other country around the world that does not do that. Because that's where researchers are going to go and that's where academics are going to go. And ultimately, that's where breakthroughs are going to occur.”

“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”

Ifs World Self Loss Five Wife Arms Losing Dollars Legs Etc Hazards Chakra

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .”

World Self Girl Lost Poor Watches Path Losing Respect Ignorant Self Respect Self Reliance Reliance Deprived Snares

Author:Anne Bronte

“There is a way of losing that is finding. When soul overmasters sense. When the noble and divine self overcomes the lower self. When duty and honor and love immortal things bid the mortal perish. It is only when a man supremely gives that he supremely finds”

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Author:Joshua Chamberlain

“When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.”

Way Two Real Self Suffering Fall Fear Challenges Worry Habit Losing Tragedy Grieving Destructive Inner Strength Two Ways Self Destructive Losing Hope

Author:Dalai Lama

“When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.”

Giving Mean Self Done Personality Losing Boast Sincerely Self Will Screwtape Letters Clamour

Author:C. S. Lewis

“And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it any other way. Not that you weren't flattered, right? I mean, to have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and self-respect - well, that's trophy enough for any guy's ego, huh?”

“Staring at her face, she began to fancy her outer layer had begun to melt away while she wasn't paying attention, and something -- some new skeleton -- was emerging from beneath the softness of her accustomed self. With a deep, visceral ache, she wished her true form might prove to be a sleek and shining one, like a stiletto blade slicing free of an ungainly sheath. Like a bird of prey losing its hatchling fluff to hunt in cold, magnificent skies. That she might become something glittering, something startling, something dangerous.”

Source: Lips Touch: Three Times

“It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience. The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of paradox, where through the ugly defeat of a cross, a holy God is utterly glorified. Victory comes through defeat; healing through brokenness; finding self through losing self.”

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Book:Loving God

Source: Loving God

“Because even if they are doing something immoral, I'd be an idiot to start criticizing them for it if I wasn't perfect myself. Smoking is self-destructive. Drinking is self-destructive. Losing your temper and yelling at people is wrong. Lying is wrong. Cheating is wrong. Stealing is wrong. But people do that stuff all the time. Soon as I figure out how to be a perfect human being, then I'm qualified to go lecture other people about how they live their lives.”

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Author:Jim Butcher

“There is a blessing in losing the one we love. It's the blessing of self-transformation. You don't have to who you were anymore. You've struggled. And now you can change. It doesn't mean that bits of that person won't cling to you, they will throughout your life, but they are now subsumed into something greater. That person has given you, in fact, the most important blessing, which is they gave you the blessing of transforming your soul into something better, something more beautiful.”

Mean Persons Important Soul Self Facts Beautiful Given Bits Greater Blessing Losing Transformation Your Soul Transforming Something Better Self Transformation

Author:Emma Forrest

“You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.”

Self Winning Succeed Losing Limitation Remove Crave

Author:Wayne Gerard Trotman

“you once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at all. For writing means revealing one self to excess; that utmost of self-revelation and surrender, in which a human being, when involved with others, would feel he was losing himself, and from which, therefore, he will always shrink as long as he is in his right mind...That is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why there can never be enough silence around one when one writes, why even night is not night enough.”

Feels Writing Mind Humans Mean Long Said Self Enough Night Human Beings Silence Cases Involved Losing Surrender Revelations Excess Revealing Shrinks Self Revelation

Author:Susan Cain

“Sure, losing an election hurts, but I've experienced worse. And at an age when every day is precious, brooding over what might have been is self-defeating. In conceding the 1996 election, I remarked that "tomorrow will be the first time in my life I don't have anything to do." I was wrong. Seventy-two hours after conceding the election, I was swapping wisecracks with David Letterman on his late-night show.”

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Author:Bob Dole

“He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.”

Self Risk Fame Losing Dignity Pursue Scholar

Author:Zhuangzi

“We lost because we told ourselves we lost.”

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Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.”

Source: Preacher and Prayer

“The more you lose, the more positive you have to become. When you're winning, you can ride players harder because their self-esteem is high. If you are losing and you try to be tough, you're asking for dissension.”

Ifs Trying Self Winning Loses Player Self Esteem Basketball Losing Tough Harder Asking Esteem Coaching Basketball Coaching Dissension

Author:Rick Pitino

“Losing is only temporary and not encompassing. You must simply study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the same way again. Then you must have the self-control to forget about it.”

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Author:John Wooden

“It's important to recognize your own self-destructive behavior and be honest about it. You're only hurting yourself or losing out on your truth and happiness. I'm not afraid to face my own personal stuff. It's so important to dig it up and figure it out and move on.”

“The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other, man fails to achieve the balance necessary for harmonious development... Practice the art of living in this world without losing your inner peace of mind. Follow the path of balance to reach the inner wondrous garden of Self-Realization.”

“There is provided an escape from the narrowness and poverty of the individual life, and the possibility of a life which is other and larger than our own, yet which is most truly our own. For, to be ourselves, we must be more than ourselves. What we call love is, in truth . . . the losing of our individual selves to gain a larger self.”

Self Individual Love Is Powerful Poverty Possibility Losing Gains Individual Life

Book:An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion

Source: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion

“...losing through you what seemed myself, i find selves unimaginably mine; beyond sorrow's own joys and hopings very fears yours is the light by which my spirit's born: yours is the darkness of my soul's return... you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”

Soul Self Light Joy Spirit Stars Born Darkness Sun Mines Return Sorrow Moon Losing My Soul Soulmate

Author:e. e. cummings

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