Gains Quotes

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

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

We gain internal freedom through external actions.

A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

Courage is a self-inflicted quality that gains momentum every time you try it.

So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.

Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

The relinquishing of the lesser is the gaining of the greater. Give up all and you gain all.

The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

Gain knowledge. It's valuable.

a caring that gains only when losing; an obsessed desire to be bound, for love , in jail ; a capitulation to the one you've conquered yourself; a devotion to your own assassin every single day.

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race to race and from age to age, and gains in brilliancy as it goes.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome.

If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.

video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia".

With each new experience of letting God be in control, we gain courage and reinforcement for daring to do it again and again.

But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself...Personality is a universe, it is filled with universal content.

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

We must lose all for Christ in order to gain all for Christ.

Integrity gains strength by use.

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

Every dimension of life, its gains and its losses, are reason for celebration because each of them brings us closer to wisdom and fullness of understanding.

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.

Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it.

Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension, it becomes three dimensional.

The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.

Every pain has a gain behind it

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.

Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power

The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.

Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

I've seen a big gain in cardio since I went vegetarian and even gained a little more going vegan.

Through our faith, we gain the courage to take action. And through action, we move one step closer toward the manifestation of our desires.

We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.

To gain control over the quality of experience, one needs to learn how to build enjoyment into what happens day in, day out.

Once a person gains experience and a good reputation, it takes less and less money to create bigger and bigger investments.

Men fear to lose as much as they hope to gain.