No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
George Bernard Shaw

Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets about an imminent catastrophe. The more public support his stimulus bill loses, the more Obama embraces fear-mongering.
Fred Barnes

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Power without abuse loses its charm.
Paul Valery

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
Ronald Reagan

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold

She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the first part of the film I was wearing a 40 pound fat suit, which is very, very uncomfortable. But the worst part was the neck.
Ellen Burstyn

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.
Richard Roeper

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
Lou Gehrig

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
Henry A. Kissinger

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
Nadine Gordimer

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.
Johann G. Hamann

The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
Floyd Patterson

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
Groucho Marx

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
Sun Tzu

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
Friedrich Schiller

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
William Ellery Channing

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.
Rudolf Bing