Adversity Quote by Francis Quarles

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

— Plautus

Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.

— Publilius Syrus

For everything you gain, you lose something.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trivial losses often prove great gains.

— Ovid

For every loss, there is a hidden gain. And for every gain, there is a hidden loss.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.

— Ian Fleming

If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.

— Miriam Toews

There's no great loss without some small gain.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth;…

— Teresa of Avila

Bad gains are true losses.

— Benjamin Franklin

What profit is there for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? -Mark 8:36

— Bible

For one gains by losing And loses by gaining.

— Anonymous