Gains Quotes

To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.

There is empirical evidence that leading brands that keep investing during recessions gain share.

Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

There is no gain without struggle.

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

When you help scholars, you gain a share in their learning.

It is by seeing, looking and choosing to not turn away that we gain God's heart, that we grow in faith.

I'm always like 'I'm too skinny, I can't gain weight, even when I try.' I'd like to try to not let that get to me.

When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.

Because I'm 5'4' and athletically built, if I gain five pounds it looks like a lot.

What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.

I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.

The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money by capital gains, and I pay 15 percent, and I pay no payroll tax on it.

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains.

If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.

Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.

I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it off of his income.

I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.

The market economy succeeds not because some people's interests are suppressed and other people are kept out of the market, but because people gain individual advantage from it.

We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.

I learn more with each film, and I gain confidence in my style of working. But at the same time, each one is a new monster.

One may gain one truth at the expense of another.

Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.

I've learned how to turn the adversities in my life into enriching experiences. You can actually gain a lot from adversities and they make you the person you are today.

Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it.

I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow

It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.

I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.

Bad gains are true losses.

Hope of gain lessens pain.

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

There is no gains without pain.

Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.

Make no mistake, the point of cutting the personal income tax and the capital gains cut is to send an unmistakable message to business leaders.

Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China's culture.

To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?

If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at length actually gain power to check your thoughts and reflections.

Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.

I'm just really tiny. People hate me, because I just sit. I'm eating, I'm eating, I'm eating and then I just... sit. And I don't gain a thing.

No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain.

Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.

The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.

It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out.

The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.

We gain or strengthen a testimony by bearing it.

The continuing shortages of housing inventory are driving the price gains. There is no evidence of bubbles popping.