Gains Quotes

What is one man's gain is another's loss.

I shall gain glory or die.

Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain.

Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.

Ill-gotten gains work evil.

When you become content in life, you gain the power to bless others. This is the law of nature.

It’s just been my experience that some kinds of working relationships are better motivated by fear than by monetary gain.

I don't particularly gain water; I don't have water retention.

You gain nothing by becoming cowards.

It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.

Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds.

America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.

Certainly, you want to be liked, but as you gain confidence and experience you're more concerned with expressing yourself and what matters to you.

Gradually the true Mason gains experience in using these working tools and can observe subtler and subtler indications of personal flaws.

I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose you lose to gain.

It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.

The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

For me, when I do a show is to make sure that I gain some new people.

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.

I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.

I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.

I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a way that gains support

The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.

I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.

You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy.

Gaining trust is not difficult for me. I needed to gain the trust of the North Korean supervisors.

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.

The liquid drops of tears that you have shed Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl, Advantaging their loan with interest Of ten times double gain of happiness.

That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain, And follows but for form, Will pack, when it begins to rain, And leave thee in a storm.

Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.

Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,-miserable train!- Turns his necessity to glorious gain.

Today we're seeing fundamental conflicts within political Islam, with the fundamentalists on the one side and the moderates on the other. Who gains the upper hand means a great deal to the world.

Why is it that for everything you gain in life, something is always lost?

One gains by losing and loses by gaining.

It shouldn't take a life-changing event for you to change your life.

Leaders are interested in gains. However, they acknowledge that there is no gain without pain. They embrace the pain.

[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

The wealth of some people is here on earth. The wealth of other people is somewhere afar from the earth. Whatever the wealth may be, we must think of a wealth that is distinctive

We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future.

There was no sudden, striking, and emotional transition. Like the warming of a room or the coming of daylight. When you first notice them they have already been going on for some time.

On any given night the stars are endless losses or endless gains. One for the love you experience and one for the love you lose. One for the unfulfilled wish and one for the wish yet to come.

Don’t run away from the gains because it comes with pains. If you ever love to go for the sweet honey, be ready to be stung by a busy bee! Go for it anyway!

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The greatest gains that we will ever experience arise from the greatest sacrifices that we have ever known.