In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Put them in position to make their wishes come true, so they can have multiple accounts that gain interest over night. — Ludacris Copy Share Image
You gain converts by winning at something the existing provider didn't think was so important. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel. — William Penn Copy Share Image
I love food so much, all I have to do is look at it and I gain 5 pounds. — Kelly Rowland Copy Share Image
It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Destroying green belt agricultural land for immediate economic gain is like burning your children's inheritance to cook a single meal — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His… — John Keble Copy Share Image
Poverty persists, essentially, because the people at the bottom - the bottom quarter and also the bottom half - see the gains… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Sometimes one touches on a very painful spot where one is almost too shy to look into it, but somehow one still… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Gain control of the emotions. Be the helmsperson and not blown around by the winds of emotion. While there will be winds,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I'm fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
The camera only facilitates the taking. The photographer must do the giving in order to transform and transcend ordinary reality. The problem… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
Courage is…following your conscience instead of "following the crowd." Sacrificing personal gain for the benefit of others. Speaking your mind even though… — Eric Harvey Copy Share Image
If we think that we can somehow gain control of the US government, bring it under popular, enlightened progressive control, preserve a… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
But you know, if you live an affluent lifestyle, there are all types of trappings that are there that you have to… — Julius Erving Copy Share Image
One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
People who write for reward by way of recognition or monetary gain don't know what they're doing. They're in the category of… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
You can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“any mean, ambitious man,...counts his losses more than his gains.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
We must lose all for Christ in order to gain all for Christ. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
