Gains Quotes

Bad gains are true losses.

— Benjamin Franklin

An evil gain equals a loss.

— Publilius Syrus

And gain is gain, however small.

— Robert Browning

Gain or loss, what is worse?

— Laozi

There is no gains without pain.

— Benjamin Franklin

He who gains time gains everything.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“There are no gains without pains.”

— Benjamin Franklin

No pains, no gains

— Anonymous

The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.

— Marian Keyes

Trivial losses often prove great gains.

— Ovid

We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.

— Seneca the Younger

When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.

— Sienna Miller

Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love.

— Baltasar Gracian

Learn weeping, and thou shalt laugh gaining.

— George Herbert

The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace.

— John Muir

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it…

— Benjamin Franklin

The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]

— Juvenal

To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome.

— Donald Rumsfeld

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.

— Umberto Eco

We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made.

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

If the loss of your fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.

— Elizabeth Prentiss

I was willing to put it at risk in order for someone to gain, in order for the situation to get better.

— Andrew Hawkins

Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness;…

— Ramana Maharshi

God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family…

— Iain Pears

There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too…

— Andrew Tobias

The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain - stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment - over…

— W. Edwards Deming

If we are to create a new agenda for family/work policies, employers and employees have to take a seat at the same…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

I always thought, 'That's just the way you do it.' You work as hard as you can for as long as you…

— Walter Payton

Our egoism gains nothing from acts of love, but the world gains all the more. Esotericism tells us that love is to…

— Rudolf Steiner

The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and…

— Sam Harris

I think that the risk to all the progress we've made was at stake in the election because not just the president-elect…

— Barack Obama

Each river is different, but they all eventually lead to the ocean. No matter what we’re doing or when, or whether it…

— Chris Prentiss

Most people are just fat and because most bodybuilders juice, they can get away with eating what they want and just monitoring…

— Scott Herman

A lot of women are in a crazy exercise cycle; they're so afraid they'll gain weight if they stop, and it's especially…

— Anonymous

What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

To begin with, our knowledge grows in spots. The spots may be large or small, but the knowledge ever grows all over...…

— William James

If you wish to become a divine immortal angel, then restore the angelic qualities of your being through virtue and service. This…

— Laozi

Those who today murdered our people in an ambush not only plotted to murder some Jews but intended to provoke us... The…

— David Ben-Gurion