Gain Quotes

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It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt… — Edmund Burke
Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they… — Joseph Sobran
When I began my humanitarian work, I understood that in order to gain credibility I needed patience, commitment and unwavering perseverance. I needed to ignore… — Bianca Jagger
You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive… — Khalil Gibran
By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge. — Isaac Asimov
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is… — Johannes Kepler
Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning to use and… — Ray Lankester
Where should I start? Start from the statement of the problem. ... What can I do? Visualize the problem as a whole as clearly and… — George Polya
In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But… — Frederick Soddy
Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight… — Lord Kelvin
But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely exempt from the… — Galileo Galilei
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. — Jacob Bronowski
What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity… — Hakuin Ekaku
I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I… — Henri Matisse
Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as profit-making… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this… — Aldous Huxley
You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain. — John C. Maxwell
So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily shortest… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should… — Li Ka-shing
There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let… — Walter Raleigh
Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the… — Thomas Jefferson
No individual can ultimately fail. The Divinity which descends into humanity is bound to re-gain its original state. — Nilakanta Sri Ram
Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration. — Mike Rutherford

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