Gains Quotes

A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.

It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.

In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.

Once energy problems gain traction, there will be a large new class of economic losers, and consequently a lot of social turbulence.

Hope puts up with modest gains, realizing that the longest journey starts with one step.

Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.

My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.

Maybe that's because there are so few women lobbyists; if they're there, it's for something they strongly believe in, not just for financial gain.

A 1940 Gallup poll showed 83 percent of the public was against intervention. A good pretext was needed to gain support from an intransigent public.

We've got a lot to gain and nothing to lose.

Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I, But, sprung at once to beauty's perfect round, Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found, - A life-complete in death-complete to die.

Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.

No one gains from fair employment law and legislation if there is no employment to be had.

And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.

But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.

Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10 years, including increases to the capital gains and inheritance taxes.

The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.

So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.

The need for challenge, the need to burst through the constrictions of tasks and situations already seen and mastered, can affect anyone, even those enjoying the greatest gains from success.

Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance.

I love food so much, all I have to do is look at it and I gain 5 pounds.

When I gain a pound it's in the headlines.

My father [Joe Germanotta] opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

On the one hand, loss implies gain; on the other hand, gain implies loss.

Gain or loss, what is worse?

You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

For however much the state may gain by not having to fund roads on its own, society would lose in aggregate if the open commons of transportation were lost.

An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.

There is no greater dishonesty than man effecting his own private gains at the expense of others.

I've never even been out of my BMI range. I'm 5-foot-3. If I gain five pounds, it shows.

I don't have the same access or time to gain access to music the way I used to.

The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose.

Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained.

There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.

In the 20 years before Greece end up with the Euro, efforts to improve competitiveness through exchange rate and adjustments resulted only in temporary gains of competitiveness.

It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.

If we are to create a new agenda for family/work policies, employers and employees have to take a seat at the same table and recognize their mutual gains.

If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains

If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.

I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.

Strain every nerve to gain your point.

No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

No one is so eager to gain new experiences as he who doesn't know how to make use of the old ones.

My businesses are usually built around challenging conventional wisdom, so I tend to gain by taking the other side. It's been very profitable and entertaining for me

For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.

What kind of economy grows for decades on end but doesn't allow most of the population to share in the gains from that growth?

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

I focus more on the spiritual or psychic gains.

When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’