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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore Roosevelt

Success, Children, Interest

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
Karl Marx

Nothing, Win, Revolution

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andre Gide

Courage, Cannot, Unless

I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.
Yogi Berra

Fight, Win, Try

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

Sick, Caring, Pen

I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
Lana Turner

Good, Rather, Caught

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
George S. Patton

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Paulo Coelho

Work, Start, Getting

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

Whatever, Either

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

Great, Game, Golf

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

Money, Arm, Leg

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Work, Women, Men

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Today, Tomorrow, Coming

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
Saint Augustine

Judge, Friend, Two

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem

After, Excitement, Dreaming

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise Pascal

Nothing, Exists, Hesitation

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Health, Waste, Miser

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
Hillary Clinton

Life, Hope, Future

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

View, Dignity, Closer

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.
Siobhan Fahey

Depression, Reality, Reason

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Peace, Ignorance, Real

My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself.
Kim Kardashian

Marriage, Peace, Happy

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.
Karl Lagerfeld

Person, Few, Says

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
Emma Goldman

Strong, Character, Sex

You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.
Joan Jett

Fake, Nothing, Friends

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
Wilma Rudolph

Life, Time, Great

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Robin Williams

Madness, Spark, Mustn

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
George Sand

Yourself, Kindness, Give

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
Shania Twain

Life, Down, Short

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.
Ayrton Senna

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