Everything counts for gain when we are cosmically awake. Nothing counts, unless we are awake. No enjoyments last, no successes satisfy, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
That we are selfish gives us the opportunity to gain the power so that, in time, we might be selfless. To give… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Rather than simply interrupting a television show with a commercial or barging into the consumer’s life with an unannounced phone call or… — Seth Copy Share Image
O beautiful for spacious skies, . . . O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If we are all strong, stable, we can set our sail with any wind in the world that comes along. We make… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
Some young people do not sufficiently understand the advantages of natural charms, and how much they would gain by trusting to them… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If a general and his men fear death and are apprehensive over possible defeat, then they will unavoidably suffer defeat and death.… — Yoshida Shoin Copy Share Image
Insignificant, is the loss of relatives, wealth and fame; The loss of wisdom is the greatest loss. Insignificant, is the increase of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For those who immerse themselves in what the fairy tale has to communicate, it becomes a deep, quiet pool which at first… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
There are many people who think we should have zero tax on capital gains, interest and dividends for everybody, as - the… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Do it the hard way! Think ahead of your job. Then nothing in the world can keep the job ahead from reaching… — Harlow Curtice Copy Share Image
While 'Felicity' was successful in the States, and I had opportunities to do other stuff, I didn't want to do anything to… — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
No person is free until he or she is free at the center. When we let go there, we are free indeed.… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
I wish that Iraq had not happened - and that we had not lost touch with so many of our natural supporters.… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
I work out as little as I can for as much gain as I can. Yoga and a little bit of ballet… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
Some people say hybrid vehicles such as the Prius are only a bridge to the future ... but we think it could… — Takeshi Uchiyamada Copy Share Image
By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action. — Mahavira Copy Share Image
Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn't do… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain; Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw,… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I hope that one day I will gain power somehow, and somehow convince myself that there is still hope and go back… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
When you gain weight, for every pound that you gain, it adds four pounds of stress on your knees. So if you… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write in order to gain some sort… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you make mistakes that is alright because we all make mistakes and we learn from those mistakes. You gain confidence from… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Your friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father's… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of… — James Larkin Copy Share Image
