The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
Helen Keller

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
Walt Disney

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
William Shakespeare

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
Lou Holtz

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
Henry David Thoreau

I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.
Mitch Hedberg

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Anais Nin

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
Coco Chanel

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Ernest Hemingway

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth -it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
Ted Turner

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.
Henry Ford

Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.
Henry Ford

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
Walt Whitman