Gains Quotes

Political pundits are saying President George W. Bush has made gains in two key states: dazed and confused.

A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.

It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive.

Don’t pursue business just for your own gain. Only answer the calls for help.

A president has to provide leadership to gain support.

The failure to establish a new Status of Forces Agreement in Iraq, and the election-driven timetable for withdrawal, surrendered our gains in that country and led directly to the rise of ISIS.

I'm not a free trader, but I am a free trader, but I'm also a fare trader and a smart trader. I want to make sure that the United States gains something. So I think you would probably agree.

It is harder to cut our gains than to cut our losses.

Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

If the plan is to see what happens, a team is guaranteed to succeed - at seeing what happens - but won't necessarily gain validated learning - If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.

As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great.

False world, thou ly'st: thou canst not lend The least delight: Thy favours cannot gain a friend, They are so slight.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.

I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work.

I fearthat both dictators [Hitler and Mussolini] think their present methods are succeeding because of the gains they have made in Albania, Hungary and Yugoslavia.

You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time.

You can gain power by avoidance. You can gain power by doing certain things. You can gain much more power by meditating.

The psychic world is a dimensional plane that you can gain access to. It is a dimension of feeling and clear seeing.

It is necessary to do a systems analysis of your life. Look at where you gain power and where you lose power.

Go out and do the things you are afraid to do gradually. Gain the power to do that through meditating. You will find yourself limitless reality that knows no fear.

You gain power through practicing meditation and concentration. You gain power by doing anything you like that makes you feel good. You gain power by being happy.

We want to be all things, not just to gain power over things - how infantile!

Tantric Zen is the awareness of the infinitude of all things. To gain that awareness, to be it, is enlightenment.

You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put your power into it, use it as a concentration exercise, and be meditative.

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

Even the sadistic misogyny of Buddha and Christ was nothing but an attempt to gain the better of a vastly superior opponent.

My material never comes out verbatim every time. I always tweak in a line, or tweak away a line, gain a couple tags or lose a couple tags. The timing is always off.

It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies; for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.

He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.

To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]

Honor and profit lie not all in one sack.

Learn weeping, and thou shalt laugh gaining.

[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.

The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.

States with tremendous oil and natural gas reserves have the most to gain economically from proper regulation.

Oil is once again robbing the industry of a return to profitability. Cost reductions and efficiency gains have never been more critical.

The primary goal isn't a financial gain; it's to put out interesting music.

Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.

If I want to gain weight, I can gain weight. If I want to lose weight, I will lose weight. If I want to be fit, I'll be fit.

Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.

Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.

What I have proposed would be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy, because they have made all the gains in the economy.

I think it's been unfortunate, but it's happened, that since the Great Recession, the gains have all gone to the top. And we need to reverse that.

I think if you had a capital-gains system where the long, patient capital would actually be rewarded, nanosecond capital turning would not be.

You cant gain something, without giving something in return

Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.

Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.