Gain Quotes

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[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves.… — Richard Bach
I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to… — Galileo Galilei
If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable… — Blaise Pascal
You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert. — Denis Waitley
It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it. — Jack Nicklaus
We gain internal freedom through external actions. — Ram Dass
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others. — Danny Thomas
If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of Strategy. — Miyamoto Musashi
Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are legions in a single multiform… — Jonathan Schell
Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups. — Anne Rice
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a… — Hendrik Willem van Loon
Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto… — Parker J. Palmer
By finding the courage to be ourselves, we gain the power to make a difference. — Lindsey Stirling
Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old dull scoundrel in… — Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. Thus, to take… — Sun Tzu
The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate avoids hatred; for… — Niccolo Machiavelli
When the position is such that neither side will gain by making the first move, it is called temporising ground. — Sun Tzu
Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm — Sun Tzu
Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of… — Roger Moore
To gain the acceptance of your peers is an admirable task, but to truly accept yourself requires a much higher standard. — Wes Fesler
A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if… — William James

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