Quotes and Sayings about Losing & Defeat

A good player knows how to win the game, a good character knows how to lose it, while smiling.

In this world everything is governed by balance. There's what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose. And in this moment they think they have nothing to lose. And when you believe you've got nothing to lose, you're overconfident. We will be the ones that are going to show them just how much they have to lose.

The Professor in Money Heist - Season 3 Episode 3

Winning

The loser isn't the one who's falling down, it's the one who doesn't stand up.

Courage Getting up Falling down

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

Ayrton Senna

Ambition

The only opponents who aren't coming up with excuses for being defeated by me are computers.

Bobby Fischer (World Chess Champion)

Excuses Chess

The sooner they know the frustration of defeat, the greater their growth will be.

Koro-Sensei in Assassination Classroom

Frustration

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

Mike Ditka

Giving Up

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

John Burroughs

Failures & Mistakes

Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.

Leo Durocher

Ambition

But I will not lose, for even in defeat
There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens it up for me

Jay-Z - Blueprint 2, Album: The Blueprint 2

Experience Learning

I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Muhammad Ali - nach Niederlage gegen Ken Norton am 31.03.1973

Ambition

You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.

John F. Kerry

A temporary defeat is nothing if it leads to ultimate victory!

Stephanie Dola in No Game No Life

I'm a winner; I win most of the time. But in order to be a winner, you have to lose some of the time. I'm a terrible loser.

Coolio

Winning

It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time... the losses are what define a man's faith.

Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Well of Ascension

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

Tommy Lasorda

Success

We always try to correct what we did wrong; you can always learn something when you lose.

Diego Godin

Win or lose, I always learn something.

Bianca Andreescu

Experience Winning

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

Tom Landry

If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated.

Serena Williams

Motivation

I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.

Wayne Rooney

Ambition Motivation

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Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Courage Motivation

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

Elijah Mikaelson in The Originals - Season 1 Episode 8

Breakup Beginning Motivation

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Grandmother Willow in Pocahontas

Work Motivation

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Albert Einstein

Motivation Borders

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank

Change Motivation Minutes

And why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up!

Alfred in Batman - Begins

Giving Up Beginning

There's winning and there's losing - and in life both will happen. What is never acceptable to me is quitting.

Magic Johnson

Ambition Giving Up

I really think everyone should be important enough to just one other person on this freaking planet to be fought for. Even me. And nobody’s fighting for me. So I’m done.

Ka Hancock in Dancing on Broken Glass

Breakup Giving Up Solitude & Loneliness

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas Edison

Work Giving Up Beginning

Winning isn't getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself.

Roger Staubach

Winning

Everything's a game, Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Winning

The jaws of victory have many teeth!

Naafiri, the Hound of a Hundred Bites in League of Legends

Winning

But there are mistakes that are necessary. Sometimes you have to die a little bit to get back to live a little longer.

Benedict Wells

Failures & Mistakes Breakup Beginning

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Failures & Mistakes Intelligence

Disappoint someone - whatever. And disappoint the world. But never disappoint yourself!

Benny Severide in Chicago Fire - Season 1 Episode 13

Disappointment

Experience has taught me that wishful thinking only leads to disappointment.

Prince of Persia - The Sands of Time

Disappointment

If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.

Nicole Scherzinger

Ambition Egoism

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is the best.

Tim Duncan

Ambition

Simba: "Ouh. Jeez, what was that for?"
Rafiki: "It doesn't matter, it's in the past."
Simba: "Yeah, but it still hurts."
Rafiki: "Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it."

Rafiki in The Lion King

Experience Past

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Character Decisions

Not everything has to make sense. It's totally fine when it's fun.

Meaning Playing

Sometimes, a truce is the most important part of a war.

The Professor in Money Heist - Season 4 Episode 2

War

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

Helsinki in Money Heist - Season 4 Episode 5

Love

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Courage Light

The only time that we are allowed to look down upon others: when we are offering to help them up.

Pope Francis - August 2023

Getting up Helping

What goes up must come down.

Isaac Newton

Falling down

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

Ayrton Senna

Role Models

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

Bobby Fischer

Chess

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Pope Johannes Paul II

Excuses

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