There are two sorts of losers - the good loser, and the one who can't act.
Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose.
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
Winners train, losers complain. Give me twelve players that want to win and they will find a way to win.
When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welking with his big-swoln face? And wilt though have a reason for this coil? I am the sea; hark, how her sighs do blow! She is the weeping welkin, I the earth: Then must my sea be moved with her sighs; Then must my earth with her continual tears Become a deluge, overflow'd and drown'd; For why my bowels cannot hide her woes, But like a drunkard must I vomit them. Then give me leave, for losers will have leave To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues.
Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.
The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.
Obstacles are challenges for winners and excuses for losers.
I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.
Leaders anticipate. Losers react
Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.
Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there. '
Losers focus on what they are going through; winners focus on what they are going to.
But its not funny. Not to people who've been told they're losers their whole lives and believe they will never be anything else.
If at first you don't succeed, see if there is a prize for the losers.
One does not remember the winners. One remains haunted by the losers.
Failure inspires winners. And failure defeats losers. It is the biggest secret of winners. It's the secret that loser do not know. The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they're not afraid of losing.
I guess I've played a lot of failures, which is a Huston quality, I guess. I love losers, though, and have never met anyone who hasn't been one sometime. I'm always looking to understand them, and my father had an extremely keen eye to be able to dissect and bring that forward in the way he told his stories.
Winners develop the habit of doing the thing losers don't like to do.
If you run around with 9 losers pretty soon you'll be the 10th loser.