“When you lose your temper, you lose a friend. When you lie, you lose yourself.”
Robyn Carr American writer
Harvest Moon
2010s, Interview with Bill Kristol (2016)
“When you lose your temper, you lose a friend. When you lie, you lose yourself.”
Robyn Carr American writer
Harvest Moon
Umair Ahmad (1997) Businessman
Speaking to journalist Hamid Mir in Lahore (December 2015) as quoted in w:Lahore: History and Architecture of Mughal Monuments (2016) by Anjum Rehmani, p. 124
Jack Johnson (musician) (1975) American musician
Losing Hope
Song lyrics, Brushfire Fairytales (2001)
“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.”
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Variant: You are educated when you have the ability to hear almost anything without losing your temper, or your self-confidence.
“If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.”
G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, composer and writer
All and Everything: Meetings with Remarkable Men (1963)
“If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all.”
My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns 1936-62
“You don't lose when you lose fake friends.”
Joan Jett (1958) American rock musician, former member of The Runaways
“It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.”
Mary Renault book The Praise Singer
The Praise Singer (1978)