Lost Quotes

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it. (Sophocles)
Learning without thought is labor lost and thought without learning is perilous. View quote
Confucius
Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
What is left when honor is lost? View quote
Publilius Syrus
Out of everything I've lost, I miss my mind the most! View quote
Ozzy Osbourne
A friend in power is a friend lost. View quote
Henry Adams
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Poetry is what is lost in translation. View quote
Robert Frost
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost. View quote
Jonathan Swift
I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. View quote
Michael Jordan
The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. (Colin Powell)
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. View quote
Washington Irving
It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Everything changes, nothing is lost. View quote
Ovid
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. View quote
Margaret Mitchell
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul. View quote
Albert Szent-Györgyi
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building. View quote
Steve Jobs
France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. (Elizabeth Bishop)
I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson. View quote
Emo Philips
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Whilst traveling through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. Had to live on food and water for several days. View quote
W. C. Fields
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? View quote
T. S. Eliot
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