There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Francis Bacon

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.
Ralph Marston

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
Rose Kennedy

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
Gertrude Stein

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
Elvis Presley

And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on.
Brett Favre

Most games are lost, not won.
Casey Stengel

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
Clarence Darrow

Most ball games are lost, not won.
Casey Stengel

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
H. G. Wells

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
Harriet Tubman

I never lost a passenger.
Harriet Tubman

I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
Harriet Tubman

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

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
Isaac Asimov

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
Richard P. Feynman

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
Marshall McLuhan

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.
Curtis Lemay

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
Dick Gregory