Gains Quotes · Page 37

I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by…

— Robert Frost

The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Selfishness is when we pursue gain at the expense of others. But God doesn’t have a limited number of treasures to distribute.…

— Randy Alcorn

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to…

— Corey Taylor

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

— Franz von Papen

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them…

— William Penn

The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to…

— Virginia Henderson

I can't tell you how much you gain, how much progress you can make, by working together as a team, by helping…

— Chuck Noll

Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are legions in…

— Jonathan Schell

Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations…

— Margaret Mead

As a vegan body-builder I want to show others that it is possible to gain significant muscle and strength on a vegan…

— Robert Cheeke

Yoga is the only exercise on this planet from which you gain energy instead of burning energy.

— Bikram Choudhury

Saying No gains you respect. When you say No, the other person may feel disappointed. But ultimately, they will respect you for…

— Doreen Virtue

You'd like to see your team reasonably happy, but that's not your job. Gain their respect and get them to accept their…

— John Wooden

I can only hope that Trump comes to realize the grave dangers of adopting a policy of confrontation toward Iran. Among these…

— Richard A. Falk

Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east.…

— Dean Acheson

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

— Conan O'Brien

Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.

— Charles Caleb Colton

You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to…

— Wangari Maathai

I learn from my mistakes. It's a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there's no gain.

— Johnny Cash

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction…

— Jonathan Kozol

Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of peace that…

— Hugh Prather

It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which…

— Orson F. Whitney

Let me repeat that: Our civilization is constitutionally incapable of reversing the annihilation of natural capital, or even slowing it down. Get…

— Charles Eisenstein

[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.

— Swami Vivekananda