Gains Quotes

More apparent to Teamster members than any moral lapses were the tangible gains that had been steadily realized under Hoffa since his advent to power.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss.

If you make mistakes that is alright because we all make mistakes and we learn from those mistakes. You gain confidence from learning, failing and rising again.

I'm big on feel, and I think it can help a relief pitcher gain feel before he goes into the game.

When you're appealing to people's fears and anxieties, you can make some gains.

The power of faith is suspending judgment long enough to gain the rewards available.

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.

If the loss of your fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

The sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

If a general shows confidence in his men but always insists on his orders being obeyed, the gain will be mutual.

The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]

You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform

Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.

Whatever you gain through self promotion you'll have to sustain through self promotion. When our promotion comes from God, He sustains it.

Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.

Whoever has known the love of God loves the whole world and never murmurs against his fate, for the burden of sorrow for the sake of God gains eternal joy.

Laughter is a release of tension. When influencing, make the other person laugh; you'll gain rapport instantly.

Almost all good businesses engage in 'pain today, gain tomorrow' activities.

The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less the defense and the less the defense the less the gain.

An act of renunciation is an act of union with God. The Divine Master looks lovingly upon a person who gains a victory over self.

In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace.

We had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Knowledge is a rare thing -- you gain by giving it away.

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as "selfish greed".

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

You've got to be willing to lose everything to gain yourself.

When you give up the hope that some advisor, some system, some source of inside tips is going to give you a shortcut to wealth, you'll finally begin to gain control over your financial future.

Every mortal loss is an immortal gain.

Solve the problem yourself or accept a fate you may not like... from this perspective, the ethic of personal responsibility gains appeal.

A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief - as well as injustice - to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.

People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure.

The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.

To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think.

The only reason I took steroids was for my health purposes. I did not take steroids to get any gain for any strength purposes.

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

The Master encouraged us to gain friends, that is, to expand our circle of friends through which we can feel more intensive protection in a spirit of cooperation and through intervening values.

The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.

The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.

The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.