Gains Quotes

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.

The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life.

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord

I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.

The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.

There's no gain, without pain.

Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.

The pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity.

If you help and serve others, you will ultimately gain.

If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.

I have thought about dropping an atomic bomb on Sydney but I wouldn't gain anything from it.

As we gain experience with the Holy Ghost, we learn that the intensity with which we feel the Spirit's influence is not always the same.

Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.

The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser, loves.

I acknowledge that I should not like to see again such loss as I sustained on the 23rd September, even if attended by such a gain.

I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.

The principle of investing is that by use you possess and gain, by disuse you decline and lose.

By slow, thoughtful watching, you can gain much, as against working up a wild, panicky condition.

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit flies, And views of gaiety and gladness rise.

Give up control to gain control.

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.

I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.

The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.

The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.

In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.

In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything

Wealth is not a material gain, but a state of mind.

I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage.

The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain.

Gain control of your time, and you will gain control of your life.

Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious

Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles as applied to intellectual processes and gains.

To deny being lovers in order to gain something.That can result in a much worse situation than one can imagine.

Personally, I feel that it is the most contemptible thing for a politician to seek personal gains from politics.

Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose

For one gains by losing And loses by gaining.

When you find errors in conventional wisdom-when everyone says A and A is not true-you gain competitive advantage. Only a few times do you have to find errors in conventional wisdom to make a living.

We hold on so tightly that our hands are unavailable to reach out for the happiness we could gain by letting go.

We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.

Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.