„For everything we gain we lose something.“

— John C. Maxwell
„For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.“
— Cassandra Clare
„All life battles teach us something, even those we lose“
— Paulo Coelho
„We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose, dying. Everything.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
„I don't understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn't it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?“
— Emil M. Cioran
„When we win, nothing hurts; when we lose, everything hurts. And the only time you hear someone use the phrase its only a game is when that person is losing.“
— John C. Maxwell