Gains Quotes

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.

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

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

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

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another's experience. [Lat., Feliciter sapit qui alieno periculo sapit.]

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

As the feminist saying goes, 'Women deliver.' In other words, when women control resources, the social gain is greater than when men control resources.

What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?

Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation.

It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern and the ancient economy, not the power of capital. There is nothing else to it.

Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]

The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the same rate, will bring neither gain nor loss of utility.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.

A friend will give you immediate feedback and that will be that friend's opinion. An analyst often remains quiet and you hear what you've said and you gain your own insight.

You choose how to feel and act every moment of every day. The moment you accept this responsibility completely, you gain total control over your life.

It’s very easy for me to gain weight. Even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn’t do it any longer because I liked my food too much.

If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.

There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.

Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.

The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.

He who gains time gains everything.

We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.

If I have nothing to sacrifice, I have nothing to gain.

No brain, no gain. Stay in school.

Any school would gain, if the students began the day with meditation, cleared their heads and got themselves centered.

Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge.

We spend so much time and expend so much energy trying to gain a sense of worth from othersultimately, only God's opinion of us matters.

there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster

And still, the best of us build, and reach monetary gains. Some of us kill, but still, most of us can change.

There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.

When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.

The gains made by better management and technology are still being outpaced by the environmental impacts of population and economic growth. We are on an unsustainable course.

Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation. They prevent innovation from happening.

Politics is changing and as the demographics of different constituencies change so we need to be awake to the possibility of making gains where we have not traditionally done so.

My intention was to fight Durán ASAP because I knew Durán's habits. I knew he would indulge himself, he'd gain 40–50 lbs and then sweat it off to make 147.

Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche

I have no personal interest or gain from this , I am just an actor

Employers able to work together with workers and sharing gains and profits will lead to a much better world, getting away from income inequality.

It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.

The wise man does not lay up treasure. The more he expends on others, the more he gains for himself. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

The first time you do anything, people always take a minute to try to figure it out, but once you witness it in person, the word starts to spread and it gains momentum year after year.

From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.

Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.

Learn spiritual sciences, to recognize God and gain access to Him, no matter what religion or sect you belong to!