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Losses are inevitable, but excuses are optional. -- John C. Maxwell
Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment. -- Blaise Pascal
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. -- Ivan Illich
Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes. -- Charles Spurgeon
Despite a tenfold increase in the use of pesticides between 1947 and 1974 (in the US), crop losses due to pests have...remained at an estimated 33%. Losses due to insects alone have nearly doubled, ...from 7% in the 1942-1951 period to about 13% in 1974. -- Frances Moore LappÃ©
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Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent. -- Venus Williams
My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses. -- Isabel Allende
Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction. -- Charles J. Givens
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. -- A. C. Benson
I would cry after losses when I was a kid and pout. But I played like that. -- Jon Beason
Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement. -- Dan Quayle
After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left. -- Morrie Schwartz
Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity. -- Robin S. Sharma
I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did. -- Augusto Pinochet
All your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection, provided you continue faithful. By the vision of the Almighty I have seen it. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
When Peru had a cholera outbreak in 1991, losses from tourism and agricultural revenue were three times greater than the total money spent on sanitation in the previous decade. -- Rose George
We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds. -- Maeve Binchy
Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain over an expanding pie. -- Daniel Kahneman
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. -- Joseph Addison
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. -- Smedley Butler
It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living. -- David Whyte
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone. -- Martha Beck
Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going to have to bounce back from and some things that are a little unforeseen that you're going to have to deal with. -- Tony Dungy
You have to be okay with wins and losses. You can't just be looking for the wins and, when the losses happen, you can't buy more and more because you're sure it's going to bounce. We call that revenge trading. -- Josh Brolin
Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it. -- Lindsay Davenport
You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it. -- Taylor Swift
Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 9/11, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties. -- Kevin Mitnick
Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. -- Vince Cable
If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life. -- Tara Brach
Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over. -- Mary Schmich
By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments. -- Jack Canfield
That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from the South. They didn't look back, and they often didn't tell their children about it. They didn't want to talk about it. It was too painful, what they'd gone through and the caste system of the South, which was Jim Crow. -- Isabel Wilkerson
Bad gains are true losses. -- Benjamin Franklin
Winners have to absorb losses. -- Ice T
Little losses amaze, great tame. -- George Herbert
To avoid whipsaw losses, stop trading. -- Ed Seykota
Trivial losses often prove great gains. -- Ovid
The worst losses come at night. -- Eva Hoffman
Lately we have had many losses. -- Quintilian
I don't care about losses anymore. -- Marat Safin
You control your own wins and losses. -- Maria Sharapova
The greatest losses are unknown and unknowable. -- W. Edwards Deming
Our losses... have reached and intolerable level. -- Karl Donitz
What I've learned from those losses... Priceless. -- Robbie Lawler
If you personalize losses, you can't trade. -- Bruce Kovner
There are some losses we never get over. -- Lauren Oliver
There is no success without failure and losses. -- John C. Maxwell
I take losses very personal and very serious. -- Pau Gasol
In diplomacy, clear-cut wins and losses are rare. -- Madeleine Albright
The losses are good... if you learn something. -- Royce Gracie
You forget your victories, but you remember the losses. -- Ann Brashares
Do not suffer interim losses, relish and appreciate them -- Seth Klarman
Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses. -- Hesiod
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. -- Thomas Jefferson
After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser. -- Benjamin Franklin
It is harder to cut our gains than our losses. -- Elizabeth Bibesco
You learn more from your losses, than from your gains. -- Paul Tudor Jones
To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses. -- Publilius Syrus
If the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous. -- William Eckhardt
I have never been sad because my losses are my profits -- Praveen KC
Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses. -- Hesiod
The markets are unforgiving, and emotional trading always results in losses. -- Alexander Elder
Respect is a mutual interest, your gains depend on your losses. -- M.F. Moonzajer
There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses. -- Randy Pausch
How shall the heart be reconciled / To its feast of losses? -- Stanley Kunitz
Bombieri's Law: of Finance: Profits are on paper, losses are in cash -- Enrico Bombieri
Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses. -- Hesiod
Amateurs go broke taking large losses, professionals go broke taking small profits. -- William Eckhardt
We're essentially continuing a system where profits are privatized and...losses socialized, -- Nouriel Roubini
Bulls and bears aren't responsible for as many stock losses as bumsteers. -- Richard Miller
One of the tricks of this business is, keep your losses down. -- Walter Schloss
All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides. -- Michael Mandelbaum
There is no greater grief, than when a parent losses a child. -- Asa Don Brown
We all take losses and it's about getting up and coming back. -- Mike Epps
An end to our getting is the only end to our losses. -- Publilius Syrus
There are things we can't control - like the wins and the losses. -- Jim Courier
All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation. -- Christine Lagarde
My love grows wide and shallow in an effort to spread my losses. -- Mason Cooley
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success. -- Tom Peters
We all live with our losses. We don't want to, but we can -- Carrie Jones
It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins. -- Lou Gerstner
The mystery of existence is the connection between our wins and our losses. -- George Alexiou
I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains. -- Wendell Willkie
If you have made a mistake cut your losses as quickly as possible. -- Bernard Baruch
Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened. -- Geneen Roth
Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing. -- Isabel Allende
Economic losses like this are really as serious a problem as embezzlement and corruption. -- Li Jinhua
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows. -- Bernard Malamud
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity. -- John Maynard Keynes
There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession. -- Tim Bishop
Even in the losses, I always saw glimpses of something that kept me going. -- Robbie Lawler
All our losses and sufferings will be made up to us in the resurrection. -- Bruce R. McConkie
Part of playing the game of life is you're going to have some losses. -- Joe Gibbs
Floods are 'acts of God,' but flood losses are largely acts of man. -- Gilbert F. White
Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
By investing at a discount, Benjamin Graham knew that he was unlikely to experience losses. -- Seth Klarman
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. -- Thomas Jefferson
A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-destroying blow. -- Adolf Hitler
Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face. -- William Bridges
The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come. -- Herodotus
Deliberate tactical errors and minor losses are the means by which to bait the enemy. -- Sun Bin
Quitters have the good sense to admit their mistakes, cut their losses, and move on. -- Evan Harris
I know the horrors of war: no gains can compensate for the losses it brings. -- Adolf Hitler
Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains. -- Karl Rove
The most important thing in making money is not letting your losses get out of hand. -- Martin S. Schwartz
No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year. -- Julianna Baggott
One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach. -- Knute Rockne
A point guard is judged by wins and losses. I think I'm doing a good job. -- Deron Williams
Our audacity to rise from our losses makes Nigeria the number one footballing nation in Africa! -- Stephen Keshi
Don't focus on the wins and losses... focus your efforts on performing to your full potential. -- Michael Chandler
A military leader thinks about casualties and losses, but a strategic one only aims the win. -- M.F. Moonzajer
Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls. -- Thomas Brooks
As you understand the game of football, you understand that it is about wins and losses. -- Tyrone Willingham
I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court. -- Andy Roddick
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. -- May Sarton
Coaching is not a natural way of life. Your victories and losses are too clear cut. -- Tommy Prothro
If you can, always be appreciative of the ebb and flow of the losses and the wins. -- Jamie Foxx
You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses. -- Bill Parcells

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