Gain Quotes

2122 Gain quotes by 1482 unique authors

Your friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father's kindness. When your… — Sathya Sai Baba
O beautiful for spacious skies, . . . O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy… — Katharine Lee Bates
Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience;… — Simone Weil
The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one… — Thomas Jefferson
Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played… — Benjamin Franklin
Images of people, cities, and landscapes from the air tell a unique story about our personal space and how we relate to one another. I've… — Vincent Laforet
If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that… — Matthew Simpson
If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly,… — Mikhail Botvinnik
By walking naked you gain far more than coolness. You feel an unexpected sense of freedom from restraint. An uplifting and almost delirious sense of… — Colin Fletcher
Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and… — Pope Pius XII
We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with… — Dorothy E. Denning
I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge. — Kristin Scott Thomas
About the last thing I ever wanted in life was a knighthood, and even today some forty years after the event, I find it difficult… — Donald Bradman
If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not… — Epictetus
For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and… — Ronald Reagan
The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right. — George Meany
There's no substitute for rolling up your sleeves and working with the people who can make a difference. They get the benefit of your participation… — Michael Milken
Competition is the most promising means to achieve and secure prosperity. It alone enables people in their role of consumer to gain from economic progress.… — Ludwig Erhard
Government should be good for the liberty of the governed, and that is when it governs to the least possible degree. It should be good… — Augustin Thierry
Society is purely and solely a continual series of exchanges... And the greatest eulogy we can give it, for exchange is an admirable transaction, in… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy
America has much to gain in terms of jobs and trade by meeting the growing world demand for advanced, environmentally sound technologies. — John McCain
Success on a cosmic level completely eludes me. I'm deeply suspicious of things being too good. It's part of my superstition, I think, to generate… — Hugh Laurie
The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker's hands. It has been modified by many great revolutions, brought about by… — Adam Sedgwick
I argued last year on my shared blog that selling the right to immigrate would be the best approach to legal immigration. Among other benefits,… — Gary Becker
The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This… — Max Weber

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