Gains Quotes:

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

- Aaron Hill

source: "Alzira: A Tragedy". Play by Aaron Hill, 1736.

topic: People, Gains, Reason

Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.

- Aaron Klein

topic: Voting, Reform, Gains, Residents, Immigration Reform

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

topic: Gains, Misery, Labor

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.

- Adam Braun

source: "The Importance of #IamMalala on November 10th" by Adam Braun, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2012.

topic: Momentum, Movement, Gains, Small Actions

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Gains, Youth, Individual Happiness, Christian Ministry, Church Ministry

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

- Agatha Christie

topic: Art, Gains, Recognition

To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.

- Akio Morita

source: "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 157), 1986.

topic: Important, Cash, Gains

If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.

- Alan Greenspan

topic: Gains, Action, Terrorism

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

- Albert Camus

topic: Intelligence, Gains, Chains, Lucidity

The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.

- Alberto Giacometti

source: Alberto Giacometti, Castello di Rivoli (Museum : Rivoli, Italy) (1988). “Alberto Giacometti: Castello di Rivoli, 6 dicembre 1988-26 febbraio 1989”

topic: Beautiful, Gains, Grandeur

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Taken, Progress, Gains

Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?

- Alexander Pope

topic: Taste, Gains, Care, Misers

I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.

- Alexandre Dumas

topic: Strong, I Am Strong, Gains

The fact of the matter is, this is a very dynamic economy we have, and in this dynamic economy, you have a lot of job gains, but you also have job loss.

- Alexis Herman

topic: Jobs, Loss, Gains, Job Loss

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Writing, Men, Gains

War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every exaction, relinquish every gain, but „til then he must be struck incessantly and remorselessly.

- Alfred Thayer Mahan

source: Alfred Thayer Mahan (2012). “Mahan on Naval Warfare”, p.128, Courier Corporation

topic: War, Enemy, Gains, Smitten

The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.

- Alice James

source: Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

topic: Complacency, Gains, Conscious, Tested

I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it off of his income.

- Allen West

topic: Thinking, Income, Gains, Capital Gains, Capital Gains Tax

I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.

- Amanda Lindhout

topic: Life Changing, Gains, Gaining Confidence

I learn more with each film, and I gain confidence in my style of working. But at the same time, each one is a new monster.

- Amber Sealey

source: Source: www.indiewire.com

topic: Style, Monsters, Gains, Gaining Confidence

Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession... are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques, is true?

- Andrew Sullivan

source: "Bush, McCain, Torture". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. July 02, 2008.

topic: Historical, Enemy, Gains, Vietnamese

we should be careful not to let machinery swamp life. That we should be sure, when we are confronted with a fresh mechanical contrivance, that we are not losing more than we gain by adopting it.

- Ann Bridge

source: Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.17, A&C Black

topic: Technology, Swamps, Gains

He is very fond of me, almost too fond. I could do with less caressing and more rationality. I should like to be less of a pet and more of a friend, if I might choose; but I won't complain of that: I am only afraid his affection loses in depth where it gains in ardour. I sometimes liken it to a fire of dry twigs and branches compared with one of solid coal, very bright and hot; but if it should burn itself out and leave nothing but ashes behind.

- Anne Bronte

topic: Fire, Pet, Gains

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Music, Silence, Gains

Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.

- Anne Rice

topic: Love Is, Suffering, Gains

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

- Anthony Eden

source: Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon) (1965). “The Reckoning: The Memoirs of Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon”

topic: May, Way, Gains, Appeasement, Appease

My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

- Anthony Edwards

topic: Perfect, Gains, Kind, Complication

Our life and our death is with our neighbor. If we gain our brother, we have gained God, but if we scandalize our brother, we have sinned against Christ.

- Anthony the Great

topic: Christian, Brother, Gains, Orthodox Christian

If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.

- Antoine R. Ivins

topic: Self, Victory, Gains, Profanity

There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.

- Antoine Rivarol

topic: Men, Greed, Gains

Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.

- Aristotle

topic: Mean, Men, Gains, Moral Virtues

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

- Arnold Bennett

topic: Inspirational, Self Confidence, Gains, Tedium, Distaste

There, where I have passed, the grass will never grow gain.

- Attila the Hun

topic: Gains, Grass, Grows

Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends.

- Baltasar Gracian

topic: Giving, Enemy, Gains

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

- Barack Obama

topic: Family, Years, Gains, Pledge, Income Tax

It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.

- Barbara Deming

topic: Real, Able, Gains

To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another's life.

- Barbara Walters

topic: Dream, Helping Others, Gains, Personal Gain

If you risk nothing you gain nothing

- Bear Grylls

source: Bear Grylls (2012). “A Survival Guide for Life”, p.212, Random House

topic: Risk, Gains

I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.

- Ben Kingsley

topic: Hands, Gains, Pretending

What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.

- Benjamin Cardozo

source: "The Paradoxes of Legal Science". Book by Benjamin N. Cardozo, 1928.

topic: Honesty, Men, Gains

He who gains time gains everything.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Gains, Time Management, Management

No gains without pains.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Pain, Gains, Conservative, Without Pain

Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you.

- Benjamin Hoff

topic: Loss, Gains, Accepting, Gains And Losses

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else

- Bernadette Devlin

topic: Hippie, May, Gains, Insirational, Sacrificing Everything

Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.

- Bethenny Frankel

topic: Weight, Gains, Enough, Depriving Yourself

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

- Bill James

source: "The Man Behind The 'Moneyball' Sabermetrics". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 26, 2011.

topic: Running, Gains, Add

If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.

- Bill Shankly

topic: Soccer, Player, Gains, Soccer Player, Liverpool Fans

Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China`s culture.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Culture, Gains, Film

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

- Billy Graham

topic: Soul, World, Gains

I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amounts of money.

- Birch Bayh

topic: Thinking, People, Gains

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Faith, Wise, Gains, Wagers, Gamble

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: God, Humorous, Gains

To me, this goes beyond disappointing. It shows that we are failing to gain ground on the very conditions we need to reverse to improve our graduation rates and produce more students who are ready for college and the workforce.

- Bob Wise

topic: College, Needs, Gains

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

- Boris Pasternak

source: Roger Martin du Gard, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Gabriela Mistral (1971). “Roger Martin du Gard: Gabriela Mistral ; Boris Pasternak”

topic: Loss, Gains

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Self, Gains, Facts

Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Moving, Movement, Gains, Stagnation

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Gains, Disability, Vocation

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Growing Up, Growing, Gains

Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.

- Camilla Luddington

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Running, Weight, Gains

If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.

- Celia Green

source: Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

topic: Race, Gains, Conformity

When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape

- Charisma Carpenter

topic: Pregnancy, Shapes, Gains

No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain.

- Charles A. Reich

source: Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

topic: Gains, Persons

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

- Charles Bradlaugh

topic: Atheism, Gains, Miserable

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

- Charles Darwin

source: Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.5428, Delphi Classics

topic: Views, Ordinary, Gains, Origin Of Species

Aside from the collective gain that comes from that free interchange of ideas, there is a direct personal value for the individual concerned. Each of us should have the right to speak his thoughts and to hear the thoughts of others...

- Charles Rembar

topic: Ideas, Gains, Speech, Personal Values

Never trust a man whom you know to have acted like a scoundrel to others, whatever friendliness he may profess to feel towards yourself, however plausible he may be, or however kindly he may behave; be sure that, the moment he has anything to gain by so doing, he will "throw you over."

- Charlie Day

topic: Trust, Men, Gains, Plausible, Never Trust A Man

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

- Chilon of Sparta

topic: Punishment, Gains, Painful, Disgraceful

Sometimes one touches on a very painful spot where one is almost too shy to look into it, but somehow one still has to go through it. And by going into it, one finally achieves a real command of oneself. One gains a thorough knowledge of oneself for the first time.

- Chogyam Trungpa

topic: Real, Gains, Firsts, Thorough Knowledge

A pastor can teach you on TV, but he can't pastor you on TV. There's so much to gain by belonging to a church.

- Chris Oyakhilome

topic: Church, Gains, Tvs

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

topic: Done, May, Gains

All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation.

- Christine Lagarde

topic: Responsibility, Loss, Gains, Stakeholder, Gains And Losses

The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.

- Clara Zetkin

topic: War, Gains, Dear God

The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.

- Clarence H. Burns

topic: Respect, Men, Gains

One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects

- Claude C. Hopkins

topic: Writing, Gains, Fool

A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.

- Clay Shirky

topic: Successful, Effort, Gains

The more games you get, the more confidence you gain. I started to set the bar high for myself.

- Clint Dempsey

topic: Games, Bars, Gains

Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle and it's from failure that you gain life experience.

- Colin Powell

source: Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

topic: Gains, Life Experience, Parts Of Life

A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them.

- Cyrus the Great

topic: Pain, Men, Gains

Only through repentance do we gain access to the atoning grace of Jesus Christ.

- D. Todd Christofferson

topic: Jesus, Grace, Gains

It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.

- Daisaku Ikeda

topic: Imperfection, Criticism, Gains, Criticism Of Others, Criticizing Others

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Gains, Spirituality, Periods, Knowledge And Experience

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Loss, Inner Strength, Gains, Strength And Wisdom

If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Focus, Humanity, Gains

Each party should gain from the negotiation.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Party, Gains, Negotiation, Developers

Every day we live is a priceless gift of God, loaded with possibilities to learn something new, to gain fresh insights.

- Dale Evans

topic: Gains, Priceless, Possibility, Live And Learn, Life Learning

Prayer! I couldn't live without it; I would have died a thousand times if it had not been for my chance to talk it over with God, and gain strength in it from him.

- Dale Evans

topic: Prayer, Gains, Chance

Gain knowledge. It's valuable.

- Daniel Norris

source: Twitter post from Jan 16, 2015

topic: Gains, Valuable

Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

- Danny Thomas

topic: Motivational, Success, Gains, Help Yourself, Success Is Not Measured

I already accepted that I relate to nothing. The more I gain, the more lonely it is I know I'm like a ghost.

- Daul Kim

topic: Lonely, Gains, Ghost

You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.

- Dave Ramsey

source: Dave Ramsey (2002). “Financial Peace Revisited: New Chapters on Marriage, Singles, Kids and Families”, p.30, Penguin

topic: Money, Forever, Gains, Good Money, Lack Of Control

I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ

- David Brainerd

source: David Brainerd, Ebenezer Pemberton (1765). “An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd: Minister of the Gospel, Missionary to the Indians, from the Honourable Society in Scotland, for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, and Pastor of a Church of Christian Indians in New Jersey. Who Died at Northampton in New-England, October 9, 1747, in the 30th Year of His Age. Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings, Written for His Own Use; and Now Published”, p.123

topic: Soul, Hardship, Gains, Missionary Life

Jeff Selingo is one of the most respected observers of American higher education...Not all will agree with his observations, conclusions, predictions and recommendations, but all will gain from this thoughtful, well-written, provocative volume. I highly recommend it.

- David J. Skorton

topic: Thoughtful, Gains, Provocative, Well Written

As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest increasingly diverge. It is almost as though we were being invaded by alien beings intent on coloniz­ing our planet, reducing us to serfs, and then excluding as many of us as possible.

- David Korten

topic: People, Corporations, Gains, Detached, Serfs

If the gains from trade in commodities are substantial, they are small compared to trade in ideas

- David Landes

topic: Ideas, Gains, Commodity

The continuing shortages of housing inventory are driving the price gains. There is no evidence of bubbles popping.

- David Lereah

topic: Inventory, Gains, Driving

A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.

- David Whyte

topic: Loss, Looks, Gains

I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.

- Davy Crockett

topic: Country, Self, Gains

By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Real, Self, Gains, Becoming Real

What you gain here, you lose on the other side.

- Dejan Stojanovic

topic: Gains, Sides

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

- Democritus

topic: Hope, Loss, Gains

I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

- Democritus

topic: Kingdoms, Gains, Causes, Persia

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Thinking, Experts, Gains, Expertise

A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief - as well as injustice - to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.

- Derrick Bell

source: Derrick A. Bell (1994). “Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protester”, Beacon Press (MA)

topic: Inspirational, Grief, Gains, Exemption

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.

- Diogenes

topic: Truth, Lying, Gains

It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.

- Dion Fortune

topic: May, Gains, Used, Occult

A president has to provide leadership to gain support.

- Donald Rumsfeld

topic: Support, President, Gains

To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome.

- Donald Rumsfeld

topic: Support, Outcomes, Gains

Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

- Donald Trump

source: Donald Trump (2004). “Trump: How to get rich ; and; Think like a billionaire”

topic: Attitude, Believe, Gains, Life Ambition, Encouraging Words

I acknowledge that I should not like to see again such loss as I sustained on the 23rd September, even if attended by such a gain.

- Duke of Wellington

topic: Loss, Gains, September

My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Believe, Soul, Gains

We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

- Earl Warren

topic: Diversity, Gains, Bitter, Fragmentation

Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Ego, Gains, Feminine, Human Psyche

I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.

- Edward Albee

topic: Attention, Pay, Gains

We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

- Eldridge Cleaver

source: ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

topic: Earth, Gains, Manhood

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Thinking, Gains, Courage Strength

It is harder to cut our gains than our losses.

- Elizabeth Bibesco

source: "Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms".

topic: Cutting, Loss, Gains

Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when something of the chaos from which it is drawn can breathe and have a life of its own

- Elizabeth Grosz

source: Elizabeth Grosz (2012). “Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth”, p.16, Columbia University Press

topic: Art, Gains, Chaos

If the loss of your earthly fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.

- Elizabeth Prentiss

topic: Beautiful, Loss, Gains

Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.

- Ellen Barkin

topic: Looks, Gains, Faces

If you lose Heaven, you lose everything; if you gain Heaven, you gain everything.

- Ellen G. White

source: Ellen G. White (2013). “Our Father Cares”, Review and Herald Pub Assoc

topic: Heaven, Gains

Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Fate, Luck, Gains

I have nothing to lose, but something to gain.

- Eminem

topic: Funny, Gains, Nothing To Lose

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.

- Epictetus

topic: Ships, Gains, Firsts

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

- Epicurus

topic: Philosophy, Philosophical, Gains

If the plan is to see what happens, a team is guaranteed to succeed - at seeing what happens - but won't necessarily gain validated learning - If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

- Eric Ries

topic: Trust, Team, Gains

By slow, thoughtful watching, you can gain much, as against working up a wild, panicky condition.

- Ernest Vincent Wright

source: Ernest Vincent Wright (2015). “Gadsby: A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter “E””, p.129, BoD – Books on Demand

topic: Thoughtful, Gains

Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns.

- Euclid

source: Euclid (1956). “The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements”, p.3, Courier Corporation

topic: Giving, Gains

Storm is prerequisite to mental gain

- Eyedea

source: Song: Liquid Sovereignty

topic: Storm, Gains, Prerequisites

To be a successful missionary one must have the Spirit of the Lord. We are also taught that the Spirit will not dwell in unclean tabernacles. Therefore, one of the first things a missionary must do to gain spirituality is to make sure his own personal life is in order.

- Ezra Taft Benson

topic: Successful, Order, Gains

I make myself a leper with the lepers to gain all to Jesus Christ.

- Father Damien

topic: Jesus, Jesus Christ, Gains, Leper

There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.

- Federico Fellini

topic: Sweet Love, Self, Gains

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

- Ferdinand Lassalle

topic: Gains, Talent, Making Money

Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.

- Flora Thompson

source: Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”

topic: Art, Ocean, Gains

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

- Frances E. Willard

topic: Mastery, Gains, Succeed, Cycles, Tandem

The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.

- Frances Moore Lappé

topic: Real, Needs, Gains

It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

- Francis Atterbury

topic: Gains, Reputation, Strive, Good Reputation

So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.

- Francis Maude

topic: Support, Competition, Gains, Disillusion, Disillusioned

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Humility, Gains, False Humility, Power Over Others

Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Stars, Gains, Merit

Never worry about what you're going lose but what you're going gain

- French Montana

topic: Worry, Gains

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Art, Gains, Imitation

Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain bound up with sin; in comparison with which there can be no question whatever of mischief due to sin, for the merely gradual and imperfect unfolding of the power of the God-consciousness is one of the necessary conditions of the human stage of existence.

- Friedrich Schleiermacher

source: Friedrich Schleiermacher (2016). “The Christian Faith”, p.338, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Views, Redemption, Gains

Even the sadistic misogyny of Buddha and Christ was nothing but an attempt to gain the better of a vastly superior opponent.

- Fumiko Enchi

source: Fumiko Enchi (2015). “Masks”, p.124, Vintage

topic: Opponents, Gains, Christ, Misogyny

The biggest gains come from associating with people u DONT agree with!

- Gary Vaynerchuk

topic: People, Gains, Agree

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

- Gary Zukav

source: FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Jan 21, 2014

topic: Choices, Gains

It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies; for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

topic: Mind, Energy, Gains, Standstill

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Men, Gains, Sometimes

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.

- George Crabbe

topic: Complaining, Gains, Farming, Farming And Farmers

Experience is the main reason why we`re here, I think, in the world -- to gain experience. And from our experience we gain knowledge ... and if we get any knowledge, then we gain liberation.

- George Harrison

topic: Thinking, World, Gains

The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.

- George Meany

topic: Gains, Economics, Profession, Eminence

Where should I start? Start from the statement of the problem. ... What can I do? Visualize the problem as a whole as clearly and as vividly as you can. ... What can I gain by doing so? You should understand the problem, familiarize yourself with it, impress its purpose on your mind.

- George Polya

source: George Pólya (1957). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

topic: Mind, Purpose, Gains

Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind.

- George Washington

topic: Integrity, Accomplishment, Gains

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

- Gertrude Jekyll

source: Gertrude Jekyll (1913). “Wall and Water Gardens: With Chapters on the Rock-garden and the Heath-garden”

topic: Garden, Gains, Kind, Jekyll

It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy eventually is nothing more nor less than loss of information.

- Gilbert N. Lewis

topic: Loss, Ideas, Gains, Thermodynamics

When consumers do not take full advantage of efficiency gains, it is because they are weighing other factors that influence their decision making. When the federal government arbitrarily places one of those factors over others, it makes consumers worse off.

- Gina McCarthy

topic: Government, Decision, Gains

States with tremendous oil and natural gas reserves have the most to gain economically from proper regulation.

- Gina McCarthy

topic: Oil, Regulation, Gains, Natural Gas

Oil is once again robbing the industry of a return to profitability. Cost reductions and efficiency gains have never been more critical.

- Giovanni Bisignani

topic: Oil, Cost, Gains, Profitability

With each new experience of letting God be in control, we gain courage and reinforcement for daring to do it again and again.

- Gloria Gaither

topic: Letting Go, Gains, Reinforcement

There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.

- Gordon Getty

source: "I want to make the world better". Interview with Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

topic: Jobs, Years, Gains

When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.

- Gordon Ramsay

topic: Running, New York, Gains

video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia".

- Guillermo del Toro

topic: Book, Games, Gains

We must do the work to prove our fears groundless, otherwise it is our fears that will gain ground and our lives will be spent in their service.

- Guy Finley

topic: Fear, Gains, Prove

The greatest thing we can possibly gain from this life is the ability to love, and to love greatly.

- Harold Klemp

topic: Ability To Love, Gains, Life Is

It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.

- Harry Stack Sullivan

topic: Sports, Gains, May

Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.

- Henepola Gunaratana

source: Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mind, Watches, Gains

I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.

- Henri Matisse

topic: Expression, Gains, Clarity

It is important to gain knowledge, yes, but any advantage we will have in the eternal life to come will be a knowledge, I am sure, of those saving principles upon which our eternal life will depend.

- Henry D. Taylor

topic: Important, Gains, Principles

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.

- Henry Petroski

topic: Technology, Achievement, Gains, Programmers, Cancellation

The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Pain, Vanity, Gains

The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.

- Herbert Spencer

topic: Numbers, Gains, Opinion

The object of education is not merely to enable our children to gain their daily bread and to acquire pleasant means of recreation, but that they should know God and serve Him with earnestness and devotion.

- Hermann Adler

topic: Children, Mean, Gains

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

- Herodotus

topic: Inspirational, Men, Gains

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster

- Hesiod

topic: Evil, Gains, Disaster

You cant gain something, without giving something in return

- Hiromu Arakawa

topic: Giving, Gains, Return

Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Special, Riches, Gains, Durability, Absorbing

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

- Horace

topic: Writing, Gains, Applause

Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.

- Horace

topic: Fate, Gains, Granted

Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.

- Horace

topic: Fire, Gains, Neglected

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.

- Horace

topic: Each Day, Gains, Morrow

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

- Horace Walpole

topic: Missing, Gains, Nonsense, Deafness

The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.

- Ian Fleming

source: Ian Fleming (1955). “Moonraker”, Penguin Group USA

topic: Loss, Gains, Loser

Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women's breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?

- Isaac Asimov

topic: Gains, Forbidden, All Time

Knowledge is a rare thing -- you gain by giving it away.

- Ivan Sutherland

topic: Giving, Gains, Rare Things

You've got to be willing to lose everything to gain yourself.

- Iyanla Vanzant

topic: Inspirational, Gains, Willing

It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.

- Jack Nicklaus

topic: Golf, Gains, Shots, Gaining Confidence, Good Golf

Inevitably they find their way into the forest. It is there that they lose and find themselves. It is there that they gain a sense of what is to be done. The forest is always large, immense, great and mysterious. No one ever gains power over the forest, but the forest posses the power to change lives and alter destinies.

- Jack Zipes

source: "The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World". Book by Jack Zipes, 1988.

topic: Life Changing, Destiny, Gains

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

- Jacob Bronowski

topic: Law, Understanding, Gains

As our various electronic devices gain more and more sensory awareness, we open up the potential for entirely new forms of interaction. Not just new interfaces - tapping and shaking and whatnot - but a shift in presence.

- Jamais Cascio

topic: Gains, Awareness, Form, Electronic Devices

History is a story of violence at work. It all comes down to the old saw that, however much you can gain with a kind word, you can gain more with a kind word and a gun.

- James Carlos Blake

source: Source: www.gq.com

topic: Gun, Stories, Gains

A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.

- James Larkin

topic: Gains, Degrees, Satisfaction

We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.

- James Lee Burke

source: "James Lee Burke: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 31, 2012.

topic: Way, Gains, Imposing

In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Loss, Race, Gains

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

- James Stockdale

topic: Giving, Leader, Gains

Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.

- Javier Marías

topic: Gains

Having the ability to get and gain respect through your work is great but you have to be careful not to get carried away.

- Jay Gould

topic: Gains, Be Careful, Ability

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

topic: Gains, Illusion

I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action

- Jean Dubuffet

topic: Feelings, Use, Gains

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

- Jean Rostand

topic: Greatness, Order, Gains

I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains and happiness, which persuade us of good fortune, when all the while the glass is emptying.

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Loss, Glasses, Gains

The demand for digital textbooks has increased since its introduction to the marketplace. As students become more familiar with them and computers get faster, larger and more portable, this product will gain in popularity.

- Jeff Cohen

topic: Technology, Gains, Digital