Losers use obstacles as excuses
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Losers are afraid to fail
- Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success. Rob Gilbert
- Fear, Failure
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Losers make promises they often break
- Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. Denis Waitley
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Losers are perfectionists
- Perfection’ is man’s ultimate illusion. It simply doesn’t exist in the universe…. If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.” David Burns
- Perfectionists are the losers in the game of life. Strive for excellence rather than the unachievable. Geoffrey James
- Perfectionism
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Losers are afraid of losing
- Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success. Robert Kiyosaki
- Fear
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Losers never make a start
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Losers fixate on the negatives
- The winner persistently programs his pluses; the loser mournfully magnifies his minuses. William Arthur Ward
- The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do. Dennis Waitley
- Negativity, Pessimism
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Losers live in the past
- Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. Denis Waitley
- A winner looks ahead, a loser looks back.
- Regret
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Losers quit
- You’re never a loser until you quit trying. Mike Ditka
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Losers say “if only.”
- ‘If only’ is the excuse of the loser; ‘I can’ is the affirmation of the winner. William A Ward
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Losers are defeated by failure
- Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners. Robert Kiyosak
- There is no doubt in my mind that there are many ways to be a winner but there is really only one way to be a loser and that is to fail and not look beyond the failure. Kyle Rote Jr.
- Failure
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Losers want to be considered experts, even when they don’t know much
- A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows. Sydney J. Harris
- Ignorance
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Losers don’t master the basics
- Losers have tons of variety. Champions just take pride in learning to hit the same old boring winning shots. Vic Braden
- Mastery
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Losers are content not to win
- When you’re a winner you’re always happy, but if you’re happy as a loser you’ll always be a loser. Mark Fidrych
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Losers choose the path of least resistance
- The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. H. G. Wells
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Many argue it’s important to be a good loser
- You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser. Joe Namath
- The cheerful loser is the winner. Elbert Hubbard
- To be a good loser is to learn how to win. Carl Sandburg
- The cheerful loser is a sort of winner. William Howard Taft
- All the world loves a good loser. Kin Hubbard
- God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser. Sir Robert Baden- Powell
- You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates. Richard M. Nixon
- You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you’re going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset. Dan O’Brien
- Learn how to be a loser, because it’s important to be a loser to be a winner. Sanford I. Weill
- Show me a man who is a good loser and I’ll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss. Jim Murray
- Everybody likes a good loser – provided it is the other team.
- There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it. Billie Joe Armstrong
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Others disagree
- Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser. Vince Lombardi
- Show me a good and gracious loser and I’ll show you a failure. Knute Rockne
- It’s the good loser who finally loses out. Kin Hubbard
- Show me a good loser and I’ll show you an idiot. Leo Durocher
- On my tombstone just write, ‘The sorest loser that ever lived.’ Earl Weaver
- It’s the good loser who finally loses out. Kin Hubbard
- You know what makes a good loser? Practice. Ernest Hemingway
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Final thoughts
- A loser doesn’t know what he’ll do if he loses, but talks about what he’ll do if he wins, and a winner doesn’t talk about what he’ll do if he wins, but knows what he’ll do if he loses. Eric Berne
- Once you get past the idea that for every winner there must be a loser, amazing things can happen. Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval
- The winner asks, “May I help?” The loser asks, “Do you expect me to do that?” William Arthur Ward
- Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser. Wayne Dyer
- It is always advisable to be a loser if you cannot become a winner. Frank Zappa
- Defeat – For every winner there are dozens of losers. Odds are you’re one of them. Larry Kersten
- Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track. Matthew Keith Groves
- Second place is just the first place loser. Dale Earnhardt
- It’s not life or death; it’s a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser. Bernhard Langer
- No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room. Muhammad Ali
- The loser is always at fault. Vasilii Nicolaevich Panov
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On a lighter note
- Born loser: The window washer who steps back to admire his work.
- Loser: Someone who wasn’t wicked enough to enjoy this life and not good enough to enjoy the next.
- Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty. John Lennon
- These are the days when it takes all you’ve got just to keep up with the losers. Robert Orpen
- What does it mean to be the best? It means you have to be better than the number two guy. But what gratification is there in that? He’s a loser—that’s why he’s number two. Jarod Kintz
- If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything. William Lyon Phelps
- We all want to be the best at something. Trouble is, some people are only the best at being second best. Jarod Kintz
- Show me a man who is a good loser and I’ll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss. Jim Murray
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