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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

Life, Winning, Game

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Not all who wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell

Leadership, Failure, Care

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham Lincoln

End, Friend, Down

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill

Future, Past, Find

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Muhammad Ali

Fight, Long, Before

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Laugh, Once

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
Billy Graham

Health, Character, Nothing

Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin

Time, Again, Found

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Confucius

Great, Learn, Danger

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Mark Twain

Good, While, Golf

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Mark Twain

Hope, Lord, Tree

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love, May, Realize

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Winston Churchill

Time, Home, Government

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
John Quincy Adams

Alone, May, Vote

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

A child miseducated is a child lost.
John F. Kennedy

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
Martin Luther

God, Whatever, Hands

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare

Reputation, False, Deserving

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.
Mitch Hedberg

Work, Good, Pretty

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau

Understand, Until, Ourselves

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving

Love, Heart, Flow

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Zig Ziglar

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Khalil Gibran

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Laugh, Once

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Saint Augustine

Again, Found, Sins

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Samuel Butler

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work, Time, Wisdom

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius

Learning, Thought, Labor

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