Declines are temporary, gains are permanent.

Who does not grow, declines.

— Hillel the Elder

Bad things happen, but really bad things do not. Do buy the dips, especially the lowest quality securities when they come under pressure, because…

— Seth Klarman

I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.

— Wendell Willkie

The most important thing is that we are on the right path, and we will not deviate from it, even in the face of…

— Yemi Osinbajo

Time goes by: reputation increases, ability declines.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Every fair from fair sometime declines

— William Shakespeare

I feel lucky I didn't become that newspaper cartoonist I wanted to be because in the U.S. so many newspapers have suffered circulation declines,…

— Jeff Kinney

For some reason, ever since I was a little kid, I wake with the most energy of the day, and it slowly declines from…

— Derek Sivers

The harsh reality is that if you are middle-aged, write computer code for a living, and earn a six-figure salary, you're headed for the…

— Vivek Wadhwa

Since the majority of the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean, not to mention much of the world's protein, it is not an…

— Brian Skerry

For all of us who have been involved in the recovery efforts to bring back and strengthen wild salmon runs, we fear that this…

— Norm Dicks

Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts,…

— Brian Skerry

Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement. This may…

— Andrew Weil

When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

— Theodore Martin

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline…

— Robert Gilpin