Billy Graham
Evangelist, Author
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost."
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Losing
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Edgar Allan Poe
Poet, Writer
"I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind."
Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"Losing my homies in a hurry, they're relocating to the cemetery."
Shirley Chisholm
Politician, Educator
"Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt."
Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"One must endure without losing tenderness."
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"There's no such thing as losing touch. You can take me out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of me."
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"I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known."
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"Dont ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone."
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"A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life."
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"To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it."
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"The whole secret to winning and losing in the stock market is to lose the least amount possible when you're not right."
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"The merit of the cross does not consist in its heaviness, but in the manner in which we carry it. I would even say that it is sometimes more virtuous to carry a cross of straw than a heavy cross because we have to be more attentive for fear of losing it."
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"The cheerful loser is the winner."
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"Losing is inevitable, make sure you have the tools in your toolbox to deal with it."
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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."
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"Success comes from continuing to strive, fail and learn without losing enthusiasm."
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"The hoarders, who are anxiously worried about losing something, are, psychologically speaking, the poor impoverished people, regardless of how much they have. Whoever is capable of giving of themselves is rich."
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"The pain of preparation is nothing like the pain of losing."
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"There's a difference between losing your salvation and leaving your salvation. If you lose something, you don't know where to find it. You can't lose your salvation because you always know where to find it; you can only leave it."
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"One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness."
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"If you've got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you've got a very good business. And if you have to have a prayer session before raising the price by a tenth of a cent, then you've got a terrible business. I've been in both, and I know the difference."
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"There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it."
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"All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried."
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"I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance."
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"By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost."
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