Gaining Quotes
255 quotes by 221 authors
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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and…
— Thorstein Veblen
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America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.
— Bill Frist
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There is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be stubbed, than in aimlessly…
— B. C. Forbes
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The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.
— L. Ron Hubbard
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One way to eliminate self negating thoughts and behavior is by gaining more understanding through realizing that you cannot force others to see that what…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.
— Branch Rickey
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Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the…
— Martin Van Buren
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It meant something to me – the idea of a coat guarding and hiding a woman’s body. For me, a woman who is absorbed in…
— Yohji Yamamoto
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A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.
— Marvin Bower
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The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.
— Joseph Pilates
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We are justified freely, for Christ’s sake, by faith, without the exertion of our own strength, gaining of merit, or doing of works. To the…
— Gerhard
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The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to…
— Simon Winchester
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We believe in individual merit as a means of gaining salvation
— Lowell L. Bennion
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Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.
— Laozi
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
— Frances E. Willard
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For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be…
— Herman Kahn
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How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He ruins is present…
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining,…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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When you fall, never get up without gaining anything. Always find something on the way up. If there are only rocks, grasp one to throw…
— Sameer
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Like Mahmoud Abbas. He is not gaining anything. He puts conditions and Israel ignores them. Israel doesn’t give him any hint that they will accept…
— Leila Khaled
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