Keeping Score Quotes

“If it's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game, why keep score?”
― Ron Brackin

“Love doesn't keep score," he challenged.

I shrugged my shoulders. "But people do...”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“Keeping score, in friendships, is a losing game.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BookSmart: Hundreds of real-world lessons for success and happiness

“He narrows his eyes. “I see those wheels spinning. Fine, my gift isn’t that good. Go get whatever you’re getting. We both know you're only doing it to settle the score that only you are keeping.”
― Esther Hatch, One Small Secret

“Keeping score in any relationship is a losing game.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose

“Keeping meticulous score was our favorite girlhood pastime, adjudicating the dispersal of the cereal boxes' plastic treasure, tallying who had more Christmas presents under the tree. When given a piece of cake to split, one sister was handed the knife. The other got to pick her half, quadruple fanatical eyeballs pressing down on the blade, its slow, slow submergence through the buttercream. And then poof. You rolled over and played dead, took yourself right out of the game. Fancy that.”
― Beth Ann Fennelly, The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs