Gains Quotes · Page 12

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

— Amanda Lindhout

“What gains the most attention may not always be the most valuable.”

— Steven Redhead

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

— James Russell Lowell

Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss.

— Publilius Syrus

It is harder to cut our gains than to cut our losses.

— Elizabeth Bibesco

Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose

— Anonymous

To gain riches is wise; to pay for riches with happiness is foolish.

— Solomon

By living in harmony with Nature one gains a healthy mind and body.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains…

— John J. Mack

Like me or don't like me, I'm not going to adjust my behavior, just to gain a few more positive fans.

— John Rocker

Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.

— Jerome K. Jerome

There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything.

— Robert De Niro

We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

— Woodrow Wilson

We must be laid like a brand in the fire ... if we would gain immortal youth.

— Austin O'Malley

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown…

— Samuel Butler

Whoever with fear of God corrects and directs a sinner gains virtue for himself, that of opposition to sin. But whoever insults…

— Marcus Eremita

The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And…

— Cennino Cennini

Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your…

— Boyd K. Packer

The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With…

— Shimon Peres

I watch life trickle from the bullet wound of a sixteen-year-old "example" and marvel how things weak, even words, will turn vicious…

— Susan Abulhawa

The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a…

— Norman Vincent Peale

I will promote savings and investment by maintaining the 15% rate on capital gains and dividends. I will eliminate the tax entirely…

— Mitt Romney

There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one…

— Lord Chesterfield

I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no…

— Arthur Lydiard

People discuss their relationships all the time, but you can't. I don't think people realize how harmful that is, how it twists…

— David Sedaris

When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some…

— Anonymous

Avoid duplicity, that is, do not let your heart be divided between attachment to God and attachment to earthly things, 'You cannot…

— John of Kronstadt

Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It…

— John Ruskin

Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and…

— Michael Dummett

We spend a lot of time bickering at great cost, and very little time actually coming up with solutions. And I think…

— Dave Matthews

Each of us can, by ploy or gambit, most naturally gain the advantage.

— Stephen Potter

A man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Sometimes you have to lose everything in order to gain yourself.

— Iyanla Vanzant

Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.

— Horace

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

— Anonymous

I don't wanna gain the whole world and lose my soul.

— TobyMac

One gains by losing self for others and not by hoarding for oneself.

— Watchman Nee

In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.

— Naguib Mahfouz