
“Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing.”
Attributed quotes
Source: Nine and Counting: The Women of the Senate
“Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing.”
Attributed quotes
“In a fight like this, unless you’re willing to lose everything to win, you lose it all by losing.”
Source: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 3 (p. 41)
“Everything has a tax, and the tax for the bodies is recommended fasting.”
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 425.
Religious Wisdom
“When you lose, say little… When you win, say less.”
“When you lose, say little. When you win, say less.”, WeHeartMMA.com, 2012-09-07 http://weheartmma.com/post/2913241877/matt-hughes-when-you-lose-say-little-when-you-win-say-le,
“Of little worth is the recommendation which has for its prop the defamation of another.”
Infirma commendatio est quae de alterius destructione fulcitur.
Adversus Marcionem, IV.15.5
“The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.”
A Gift of Laughter http://books.google.com/books?id=sFJBAQAAIAAJ&q=%22The+difference+between+reality+and+unreality+is+that+reality+has+so+little+to+recommend+it%22&pg=PA47#v=onepage (1965), p. 47.
“The past has lost, as it always loses; the future has won, as it always wins.”
Source: Time War (1974), Chapter 15, “The Crisis Point” (p. 155)